So Lord may graciously help me I'll turn your prayerful attention to the prophecy of Malachi chapter 4 and reading verse 2 for our text. Malachi 4 and verse 2. But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. And ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. Malachi chapter four and verse two.

Our text this morning starts with a but. Because it's a strong contrast with the verse before. The verse before is a very solemn judgment that God has pronounced. For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven. And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts. It shall leave them neither root nor branch. So verse one is a solemn judgment, a solemn promise that judgment will come. The proud will not always continue to be proud. They will be judged. All the nations of the earth will be judged.

We as sinners will also be judged, apart from One difference, and that's what we have in verse two, but unto you that fear my name. That's the difference, not that you that have never sinned, you that are innocent, you that have been brought up in a Christian household, but you that fear my name. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, we read.

And this is what we have here. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. It's a lovely hymn that we've just sung all about the healing that we need as sinners. And this is a beautiful text. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

We have a picture here that we're very used to seeing. We've had a lot of rain recently, a lot of dull and dark weather. And a morning like this morning, when the sun shines clearly through, it's beautiful. You feel the warmth, the rays. Before, it's just the heavy rain and the cold. And in the nighttime, of course, the darkness.

But you see here there's a picture naturally, and it has an analogy spiritually. And God uses analogies in the word of God so much. It says here the sun of righteousness, S-U-N, sun, as in the sun, as we see the sun rising in the morning and giving that warmth and comfort and brightness and light. There's a picture here of what the Lord is to his people. And interesting, in the English, there's really a play on words that isn't actually there. I understand in the Hebrew, there's many times in the Bible that there is play on words in the Hebrew that we don't have in the English because the languages are different.

But here, in a sense, the Son of Righteousness, you could equally say He could be the S-O-N, the Son of Righteousness, because that is the name of Christ. The Lord, our Righteousness. He is the Son of Righteousness, but I understand that play on words doesn't exist in the Hebrew. But He is the Son of Righteousness. He is the Lord Jesus Christ. But here, He's described as the Son. Just like we have the sun in the sky that gives the warmth, the comfort. And if you took the sun away, what would life on earth be like? It would be so different, wouldn't it?

There would be no life. There would be no crops growing. There would be no food. There would be no energy. Because I understand the sun drives the wind cycles and the water cycles, and all those things are driven by the sun. You take the sun away and you've got no life.

Well, God uses that as a picture of himself. But he's very careful to differentiate that we don't worship the sun. And you see, when creation came, on the first day of creation, God said, let there be light. And you might have thought, well, and that was the day the sun was made. Let there be light, and there's the sun shining in the sky. But it wasn't like that. Let there be light, and there was light. The sun didn't come till day four. And God is teaching something very precious. The sun, S-U-N, is not our ultimate source of life. It is resembling the S-O-N, the sun of righteousness that truly is.

And so when the light shines, we have a picture of something spiritual. but unto you that fear my name. So these people are fearing, they fear the Lord, but they shall be blessed and lift up. the proud, the wicked, those who can achieve things in their own strength, those who are constantly boasting of their own achievements and their own ability. Who is the Lord that I should obey him?

Their whole method of life is, is rubbishing God and saying we don't need the knowledge of his ways. Well, verse one deals with them. And that will be the end of every person who spends their life in that way. mocking God and thinking that they can get through life themselves without God, without the need of God, without the knowledge of God. It's an absolute death blow to everyone outside of Christ.

For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud. Interestingly, you say, why is it picked out pride? Why not? What about all the other corruptions and all the other evils? Because actually it all stems from pride. Pride is the beginning. Satan, you see, pride. He wanted to be as God. We read about that in Isaiah chapter 14. It's the root. Pride is a root sin.

And all the other ones come from that. And all the proud. Yea, all that do wickedly. It's interesting that in our day that Pride has been associated with with a way of carrying on which is Which is ironic really because it is and all the proud Yeah, and all that work wickedly shall be stubble and The day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts.

So this is a solemn solemn judgment upon the ungodly We read in the Word of God in the New Testament that And such were some of you. But you're washed. You're cleansed. You see, this isn't ultimately about morality. Yes, Christians should be moral. But ultimately, it's about those who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before them in the gospel. Those that have recognized their own need of a saviour, recognise that they cannot climb to God by their own righteousness. All their righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Those who have become poor, they cannot go on in a proud way boasting of their own achievements and their own abilities and their own greatness because God has brought them down and God brings his people down, not in anger. so that they cling to him. So that this becomes then precious, you see, but unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

You see, why do you need healing? You need healing if you're not well, don't you? If you're strong and nothing wrong with you and healthy, you don't need healing. When you're sick and poorly and weak, you need healing. And this is a message that Jesus said, didn't he? The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. You see, the scribes and the Pharisees, they didn't need Christ in their understanding because they were whole. They were the religious authorities. They had made it. They had their position made. They were pleased with their own righteousness. They didn't need a savior. They didn't need a sacrifice. They didn't need the Lamb of God, so they thought. Some of them came to realise they did. Saul of Tarsus, Saul of Tarsus, who was yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter, he came to realise that he needed another to stand in his place.

But you, unto you that fear my name, has the Lord brought you to that place to fear his name? To recognise that God is holy. And God will do what he has said he will do in verse one. And unless you're in Christ, that will happen to you. You will be part of the wicked, the proud. Oh, you may be able to point to others that are more proud than you and others that are more wicked than you. But ultimately, all our righteousness is our filthy rags. and we all come under the category of verse one by nature. We all are due for judgment, but unto you that fear my name. This is the qualification, to fear the Lord. To fear him, not in a sense of being terrified of him, but in a sense of a filial fear of loving him and What God says is important to you.

What God says not to do, you don't do. What God says to do, you do do. You see, if you don't fear somebody and they say, do this, that, and the other, and you take absolutely no notice of them, you don't fear them, do you? You say, oh, that's just what he says. Just do it anyway. But if you fear the Lord, you'll recognise that what God says is to be obeyed. It's not a case of, well, you know, You don't need to do everything, he says.

But unto you that fear my name. There's a promise here, you see. And all through the word of God, the Lord's people are those I will leave in the midst of you and afflicted and poor people. You see, you're poor. You see, these people need healing. They're poor. They're ill. They're not very well.

But you see, by nature, We grow up in a world of pride and we are part of that world and we trust in ourselves and our own righteousness and in our own achievements. And we're rich, increased with goods and of need of nothing. We're great people in and of ourselves.

But unto you that fear the Lord, have you come to that place where you start to realise that you're not so great, that you're not so strong, that you're not so mighty, But you're not so righteous, you actually need God's mercy and God's forgiveness. But unto you that fear my name, the fear of the Lord, shall the son of righteousness arise. Righteousness. You see, this is the great need that we have, to be right with God. to have a right standing with God, to be able to stand before a holy God. Do you recognize that he's holy? Do you recognize that you're unholy? Do you recognize that if God looks upon you, then you will be consumed? Well, if you have something of that, you see, it talks about later on, about the law.

Verse four, remember ye the law of Moses, my servant. which I commanded unto him in Horeb and all Israel with the statutes and judgments. You see, the law of God is not gone away. The law of God are the scribes and Pharisees, and we, by nature, we take that law and we say, well, we use that law to vindicate ourselves, to make us build ourselves up, and I've kept the law like Saul of Tarsus, and then go around looking down at everybody else who hasn't.

That was never the purpose of the law. The purpose of the law was to wound us, to show us that we come short. Sin is mixed with all we do. The law is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. That's the point, that's the purpose of the law. It drives us to Christ, it shows us his holiness, exposes our unholiness.

But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healings in his wings. The picture here is of light shining out of darkness. And you see, that's a great thing that we have in Genesis 1, right in the beginning, where there was darkness over the whole face of the earth.

Darkness everywhere, all the time. And God gives a command, let there be light. And there was light. There was light. But you say there was darkness too. There was. But it didn't mean there wasn't light. There was light. There was light and darkness.

And you see the Lord's people in 2 Corinthians 4 verse 6 we have those beautiful words, For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This is the light that shined in creation, it was the light then, but that was a physical light really in a sense, but now Paul is saying that this is a picture of something spiritual. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And you see that light shines. That light shines. But you say, well, that's my problem. The Lord's people are those who have seen the light. The light has shone. And you say, well, if the light shone, then everything's bright.

We won't know anything of darkness. But you see, that wasn't true in creation, was it? When God said, let there be light, he didn't then give a commandment at the end of the day and said, let there not be light, did he? Light was still there, but then the darkness came.

And you see, we have that picture. We have it in what we've read together. The son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings. But you think of that naturally. What's actually happened when the sun rises in the morning? Did the sun cease to exist before the dawn? No, it didn't, did it? We now know that the sun is just moving round, or that the earth is spinning, so it's different parts of the earth. See the sun? The sun's shining all the time.

But the Lord's people don't experience it all the time, do they? But you see, this is what God is gonna do. This is a promise, a beautiful promise. But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise. And here you see the sovereignty of God and I do believe you can preach really cruelly to people. You can preach that, well, you know, it's just, it's in your hand, you know, the darkness, you can just say the sun comes and it comes up.

Does that happen naturally? Is it the earth that causes the sun to shine? It isn't, is it? It has to be that time, that spinning of the earth and the sun and so on, and that movement of the great planets and orbits. And then comes the light. It's not at our behest, is it? But unto you that fear my name shall the Son of Righteousness arise. It comes at his appointed time in his promise. We read, in the fullness of time, Christ came.

Remember the end of this chapter marks 400 years of silence in the biblical record. 400 years of no prophecy being given. It's a long time, 400 years. You go back 400 years. King Henry VIII sort of era, isn't it? 400 years? Can't remember exactly. But it's a long time ago. A long time, 400 years of nothing.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise. You see, it was promised. It was certain. And in the fullness of time it came. Just like our sun, you see. And when God said, let there be light, and then he formed the sun in a physical sense as we know it today. And that sun keeps shining, whether we see it or not. I mean, you think of it.

You look up into the night sky on a dark, very dark night. You go to somewhere there isn't a lot of street lighting and light pollution. There's pitch darkness. Yes you can see some stars but generally real darkness. Where's the sun? Where is the sun? Is the sun still shining? Well to your estimation, to your feelings, to your sight, to your warmth, no. It's stopped. But has it? And you see, this is the great point that the Lord is teaching his people. He's teaching us to walk by faith and not by sight.

You see, when the sun's beaming upon you, let's say you're on the beach, it's a lovely day, you've got the warmth beaming on you, do you need a lot of faith to believe that the sun's shining? You can see it shining, you feel it, you feel the rays, you feel it all. But you go out on a cold night, cold, dark, is the sun still shining? Or you say, no, it isn't. But the sun is still shining, isn't it? And you see, that is true of every child of God. When the Lord says, let there be light in conversion, the conversion of a child of God, that light is like the sun in that sense, it's never extinguished. Ah, but you say, there's darkness at times.

Isaiah 50 verse 10 says, who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? You say, that sounds a good, that sounds a godly person. It is a godly person that walketh in darkness and hath no light. Oh, you see, you could say, well, that's unbelief. That's wrong. You mustn't do that. If you had more faith, you wouldn't be like that.

Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his guard. God has appointed, like there is in nature, darkness and light, morning and evening. So in the experience of God's people, they will know times of the shining forth of that sun of righteousness with healing in his wings and all the virtues and the balm that flows from that.

But they will also come into times when they feel nothing. No heat whatsoever, no warmth whatsoever. In the middle of the night you don't feel any warmth from the sun, do you? But the sun hasn't stopped shining. It's just not where you are. Different part of the world. It's still shining. And so this sun of righteousness, once that light has begun shining, it never is quenched.

And that's a comfort to the Lord's people walking through a valley, isn't it? It was a comfort to the Lord Jesus Christ as he was at Calvary. You see, when he went through his baptism, he went through those waters of baptism, didn't he? He had that dove lighted upon his head, and he heard that voice from above saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Oh, he had the experience of that love, and that fellowship, and that nearness to his father. And the Trinity was so clearly seen, and it was so precious. But did that happen at Calvary? Did he hear a voice crying out from the heaven, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased? No, no voice, nothing. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? Let him trust. in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God, his God.

You could preach that, that as soon as you're walking in darkness you're an unbeliever, you're walking in unbelief. But that's not true to the word of God. The word of God recognises that God's genuine people walk through darkness at times. Now if you never know the light, if you've never seen the light, if you've never felt the warmth of his love, if you've never felt the kisses of his face, then you need to worry. Then you have no evidence that you know the Lord. But keep seeking him. But you see, to one who has known the blessings of Christ, who has known nearness to Christ, who has known communion with him, who has known the love of Christ shed abroad in your hearts, But then it's all gone.

It's midnight now. There's no warmth. There's no comfort. And Satan would come along and say, well, where's your faith now? Where's your hope now? Where's your warmth now? Where's your love? And then, of course, the Lord, Satan comes and tempts the believer and shows him the corruptions that are within, which is absolutely true. shows the emptiness and the vanity and the corruption in everything that we do and think and say, and we're well nigh thinking of despairing, because what are we? In and of ourselves, we're nothing.

But then you see, what is the Lord doing this for? Why is he doing it? To make this verse precious, but unto you that fear my name. You see, it doesn't say on you that always feel the rays of warmth shining upon you, but those that fear the Lord. You see, the Lord Jesus, when he cried out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He'd lost all sense of the favourable presence of his God. But his faith was so strong. My God, he said. the midst of with nothing coming back to encourage him and no heaven open and this is my beloved son no no warmth but darkness three hours of darkness in the midday three hours of darkness showing how that even the the natural elements and I don't believe that's just an eclipse we never have a three-hour eclipse this was something supernatural indicating that, you see, Christ was passing through those, that horror of great darkness that should have been the dessert and will be the dessert of everybody in verse one of chapter four.

But Christ stood in the place of his people and such were some of you. Such were some of you. but ye are washed. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise. And so we must recognise the Christian faith when God has said, when Paul says, but for God who commanded the light to shine hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. What God has done for us is brought us into a state of grace. Into a state of light.

Children of light. But you see, Satan would bring that round and say, well, children of light, children of light, what are you doing in the darkness? Why are you in darkness if you're one of the children of light? Ah, you see, Satan constantly twists things.

God has appointed that the Lord's people walk by faith and not by sight. How much faith would we need if we always basked in the sunshine? We wouldn't need much faith, would we? We would have a constant revelation that the Lord was with us and the Lord was blessing us, like Jesus when he was passing through the waters of baptism at Jordan. A constant sense of the approval of his Father and the blessing of his Father.

But it wasn't like that at Calvary, was it? And you see, Paul said that I may know him and the fellowship of his sufferings. And you see, this is what we have to do, walk through the valley. And then you see when you walk through the valley, when Christ was on the cross, he saved others, himself he cannot save. He was the ridicule we read in the Psalms. He was the song of the drunkards. That's what he was experiencing.

Then to believe that God is in control, that all things are working together for good. everything is in his father's hand is strong faith. And that's the trial of your faith being much more precious than gold that perisheth. Perhaps wonder how I came to preach from this this morning. Well, I sought yesterday to, particularly to really find what the Lord would have me to speak and it was as if I got, I toiled all night and caught nothing. Nothing could I see was precious, nothing could I settle on at all. Early hours of the morning, this beautiful hymn that we hope to sing later on actually,

726. Jesus whose glory fills the sky, Christ the true, the only light. Son of righteousness arise, triumph all the shades of night. Dayspring from on high be near, day star in my heart appear.

You see, Satan, when the heavens seem as brass, we can't seem to pray, we can't seem to get anywhere, we can't seem to see any sweetness, we can only see our corruption, we can only see our at how far short we come and we wonder, do we know anything of the things of God? Why is the Lord bringing us in these ways? So that we start to understand that in us, that is in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing. And how are you going to know that? It's not just you can't, you can read it in a textbook, but it's got to be experienced. To really believe it, you've got to experience it. To realise the emptiness and the nothingness in and of ourselves.

But then you see, when you see that scene of coldness and darkness, and then you see the sun arising, with its warmth and beams and life-giving power, that's what Christ is to his people. and all the corruptions that they feel inside. And Satan would say, well, you're out of the secret. You're meant to be a child of light. And there you are sitting in darkness. But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise. He shall. Just as the day follows night. So the Lord will be faithful to his people. Shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, healing. And that's what God's people need. Why do they need healing?

Because of the stench of their own corruption. You read through some of the, I've been I guess what really brought me down is reading some of the accounts in the Old Testament, and they're difficult accounts. Read Genesis 38, what happened with Judah and the incest and the corruption and the sin and all that, and then you read of, we've been reading in our family, reading about Amnon, and all that went on with Tamar, and a very difficult time in David's life, and then Absalom, and all the corruption.

Where's Christ in all this? Oh, he's leading us that there's no hope of salvation there, is there? The Bible exposes sin in all its misery. You see, we don't preach a moral gospel. Oh, you just have to be, it's for the good people. It's for the people that don't do those sort of things. Well, the Bible shows us in clear colours that Judah, Christ sprang from the tribe of Judah. What was Judah? Judah's children, Phares, came from incest. That's where it came from, that's the truth, that's what the Bible tells us.

But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise. Oh, but it's a dirty line. Oh, but there's all this corruption. But this is the balm, this is our hope. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise. And just as that sun rises and then a scene that was completely dark, you look over the fields, particularly in the fields because you haven't got the lights, if you look at a dark night and but then the dawn breaks and there's light where there was darkness, there's warmth where there was coldness. That's a picture spiritually of what it is. to have the healing balm of Christ, to have the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. All this corruption, all this wrongness, all this wickedness, all this filth, and such were some of you. But you're washed.

David, a man after God's own heart, murder, adultery, deceit. But unto you that fear my name, David, you see, he feared the Lord. Yes, he was left to himself and did some terrible, terrible things, which he suffered for the rest of his life, actually. So don't think sin's cheap. Don't think, oh, well, David sinned and he was forgiven. He suffered for it the rest of his life.

With Bathsheba and the sword should not depart from his house, and it didn't. He had Amnon, forcing his sister Tamar, and then Absalom killing Amnon, and then Absalom rising up against him to take the monarchy. It was a mess. That's why David had to say, although my house, be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. Oh, you say, David, your household's not ordered in all things, and sure, it's a mess.

But God, you see, is able to cleanse. There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains. They lose them all. Oh, but you said they suffered for it the rest of his life. Yes, he did. But he's now in glory. He's been forgiven, but year washed. David has been forgiven, yet he suffered for it. We must recognize that sin has consequences.

But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, the healing that comes from Christ. ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. The picture here is that keeping calves, you keep them in pens, they've been protected while they're growing up and they're cooped up, they're restricted, and yet the picture is perhaps when the winter's over you can let them out into the field and they can run around, they can skip around, they're suddenly not cooped up in this little pen that they've been cooped up in. It's a picture of the child of God, restrained by all the corruption, all the sinfulness of sin, all the trying to keep the law, all the time of trying to do better and trying to satisfy God's law by our own righteousness, all the bondage that comes. And yet when the Lord arises with healing in his rings, We look out of ourselves and look to the righteousness, the only righteousness, which is Christ. And then we seek to live to God's glory in line with the law of God, but out of gratitude, not out of gaining salvation.

But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise. So as the Lord's people walk through darknesses, may this be a comfort to you. I'm preaching very much to myself really, but I hope it's of benefit to you too. In Lamentations chapter three it says this, this is Jeremiah speaking, I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He, listen to this, He hath led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Oh, that's a difficult path, isn't it? Christ was brought on the cross at Calvary to darkness and not to light.

For those three hours there was darkness. He was enduring the wrath of God that should have been endured by the entire Church of God throughout a never-ending eternity. That's what he was enduring. That's the night that none of the ransomed ever knew the depths of the waters crossed, nor how dark was the night the Lord went through, ere he found his sheep that was lost. That's the darkest night that's ever been.

He endured the darkness so that he could be the light of his people, so that he could shine into their hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. He worked out a righteousness so that he had something to give to a people that had no righteousness so that they could be righteous.

It's a beautiful gospel and it's beautiful to recognize And you see, it's the maturity. Christ is maturing our faith. Wouldn't we always love to walk in the light of his countenance? Wouldn't we always love to have that? And it is good, and that will be heaven, where there is no night. But here below, God has appointed that there is darkness as well as light.

And in the times of darkness, you see, We have to trust, because we can't see, can we? Darkness means you can't see. You have to walk by faith, not by sight. All the time you see, you don't need faith to walk around the building. You just walk around where there's not any chair in the way. But if you're in perfect darkness, you don't know where to walk.

But you see, the darkness and the light are both alike to him. He's able to guide his people. And so when we walk through those dark paths, we're to walk by faith. It's been likened sometimes to a little child. If you have a one or two year old and they're in a room with a mother, let's say, and then the mother goes out to make a cup of tea or something in the kitchen, you can suddenly find the baby suddenly screaming, where's mummy gone? He said, I've only just gone in the next room to make a cup of tea. I haven't left you. I haven't forsaken you. I've not lost my love for you. I've just gone to make a cup of tea in the next room.

You see, as children get older, they understand that. They mature. They realize that their mum's gone out to do something or their dad's gone to do something. It doesn't mean that they've forsaken them. They've just moved to do something else. And so God in a spiritual sense is maturing his people so that we walk by faith.

We won't always bask in the light of his countenance, it's beautiful when we do, but we won't always bask in that because God has appointed, you see, that the darkness has work to do as well. And when we're in the darkness we say whatever's the point of this, I'm getting nowhere, I don't know what to do. This is what we're to do, what Isaiah tells us.

Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his guard. Now that's not a word to say that you forever then walk in darkness. No, that's a twisting of the word. The Lord's people do not walk in continual darkness, but they do know times of darkness.

Continual darkness, you see, that's what the world was before God said, let there be light. There was continual darkness everywhere all the time. But once God said, let there be light, there was bounded, the darkness was bounded. It couldn't go everywhere, it had a slot. And may the Lord help you to recognise that the darkness has a slot in your life and it cannot go beyond that slot.

When the sun of righteousness arises, the darkness is gone and the sun of righteousness shines into your heart the knowledge of Christ and Christ is precious. But unto you that fear my name, shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth and grow up with calves of the stores. There's a skipping into the meadow as we run in the ways of his commandments, as we recognize, ah, God was with us all the time, the darkness and the light are both alike to him, that he has not forsaken us. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. so that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper through the darkness but not always in the darkness looking towards that glorious light to be with Christ which is far better into that time where there shall be no more night that defines heaven we don't read of that here below we never read that there's no light here below there's always night here below no sorry not there's night and day there's there's variations here below but in glory you see it will be eternal day and that's why for the Lord's people they're looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God when they will be in an everlasting day and crown him Lord of all. Amen.