Thank you, Brother Todd. Once again, I want to express
my appreciation to the congregation here and to your pastor. And
it's really our delight to be here. I don't feel too comfortable
in these clothes. But it's hot there, so you understand. I want to speak tonight about something that is, I believe,
very, very important. Very, very important. It's the
matter of seeing God. The matter of seeing
God. What an awesome thing to see
God. And the title of the message
is, Can a man see God and live? Can a man see God and live? Brother Todd read at the beginning,
he said, ìNo man has seen God at any time. No man has seen
God at any time. Our God, the Scriptures reveal,
is a consuming fire. He is holy, holy, holy. He dwells in a light which no
man can approach unto. Can a man see God and live? Well, if a man ever sees God
apart from the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, if a man
ever sees God apart from the revelation of God in Jesus Christ
in his mercy and grace, it will be everlasting destruction, everlasting
damnation. But if a man, by the grace of
God, If God, in mercy, reveals Himself to that person in Jesus
Christ, whom to see is life everlasting, to see Him, to see God in Jesus
Christ is life eternal, life eternal. This is what the Scripture
says. The Lord said this in John 6,
This is the will of Him that sent me. that everyone that seeth
the Son, and believeth on him, seeth the Son. We see the Lord
Jesus Christ. We see him. We see him by faith. We see him. We see he is God.
We see he is God. Everyone which seeth the Son,
and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I will
raise him up at the last day. Well, I want us to open our Bibles
in Judges chapter 13. Judges chapter 13. And read here the account of
when the Lord revealed himself or appeared to Manoah. Keep in mind what we just heard.
No man has seen God at any time. No man can see God and live.
This is what God said to Moses. He said, No man can see my face
and live. A man cannot see God apart from
Jesus Christ and live. And here's what I want to say.
Manoah saw God and lived. Who was he seeing? Who was he
seeing? And the children of Israel did
evil again in the sight of the Lord. and the Lord delivered
them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. And there was
a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose
name was Manoah, and his wife was Baran and Baranot. And the
angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her,
Behold, now thou art Baran and Baranot, but thou shalt conceive
and bear a son. Now therefore beware, I pray
thee, and drink not wine or strong drink, and eat not any unclean
thing. For lo, thou shalt conceive and
bear a son, and no razor shall come on his head. For the child
shall be a Nazarite unto the God from the womb, and he shall
begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.'
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of
God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an
angel of God." Very terrible. But I asked him not whence he
was, neither told he me his name. But he said unto me, Behold,
thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and now drink no wine
or strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing. For the child
shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'
Then Manoah entreated the Lord and said, O my Lord, Let the
man of God, which thou didst send, come again unto us, and
teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.'
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God
came again unto the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah,
her husband, was not with her. And the woman made haste and
ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, I
The man hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day. And Manoah rose, and went after
his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the
man that spaketh unto the woman? And he said, I am. And Manoah
said, Now let thy word come to pass. How shall we order the
child, and how shall we do unto him? And the angel of the Lord
said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman, let her
beware. She may not eat of anything that
cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink,
nor eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her, let
her observe. And Manoah said unto the angel
of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee until we shall
have made ready a kid for thee. And the angel of the Lord said
unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread. And if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew
not that it was the angel of the Lord. And Manoah said unto
the angel of the Lord, What is thy name? That when thy sayings
come to pass, we may do thee honor. And the angel of the Lord
said unto him, Why hast thou thus after my name, seeing it
as secret?' So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering and offered
it upon a rock unto the Lord. And the angel did wondrously.
And Manoah and his wife looked on. And it came to pass, when
the flame went up towards heaven from off the altar, that the
angel of the Lord ascended into the flame of the altar. And Manoah
and his wife looked on it. and fell on their faces to the
ground. But the angel of the Lord did
no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew
that it was the angel of the Lord. And Manoah said unto his
wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God." I want to stop reading there for
a moment. I want to come back to what Manoah's wife said. And
I think it's a great encouragement. What Manoah said is a great encouragement.
This story of the Lord revealing Himself to Manoah and to his
wife. We don't know the name of Manoah's
wife, but we do know that the Lord gave her some clarity. The
Lord gave her some clarity, and we find great things revealed
to us in what this woman said to her husband. We find great
things revealed to us in what this woman said to her husband,
and a great consolation and great confidence to a trembling sinner. Great confidence and great consolation
to a trembling sinner who is guilty and conscious of his guiltiness
before a holy God. Well, you know who Manoah and
his wife were. Manoah and his wife were the
parents of Samson. Samson, the deliverer that God
sent his people to deliver his people of the oppression of the
Philistines. You know, the children of Israel
did evil again. They were an idolatrous nation.
And they committed idolatry, and God turned them over to the
hand of the Philistines for some time. And then the Lord sent
this deliverer. And Samson is a type of our Lord
Jesus Christ who delivers his people from the enemy, our enemy,
all our enemies, Satan. This sin, death, this world,
he delivers us from all our enemies, the Lord Jesus Christ. And Samson
is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ in that Samson's birth was foretold. Samson's birth was foretold.
He was announced of the angel that he would come and deliver
his people, just like our Lord Jesus Christ was foretold from
the very beginning. When our father Adam disobeyed
God and when our father Adam fell and was held captive at
his will, Satan's will, the Lord God came and announced, this
is the same angel of the Lord that came in the garden. It's
the same angel of the Lord that came in the garden and spoke
to Satan and said, the seed of the woman shall destroy the works
of Satan. The seed of the woman will crush
his head. That is the same angel of the Lord that came to Adam
in the garden. And Samson's birth was a miracle. That is to say, his mother was
barren. She could not bear children.
And she was sterile. That is what that word means.
She was sterile. It was impossible for her to have a child. And
our Lord Jesus Christ was miraculously born also. He is the seed of
the woman. He is the seed of the woman that
came to this world to deliver his people. And Samson, as it
says here, he was a Nazirite. The vow of the Nazirite was a
vow that the children of Israel would vow, and the period of
time could be varied. In this case, Samson was from
birth to his death. But the period of time could
be set, but as long as that fulfillment was not complete, if they came
into contact with something that was unclean, they had to start
over again. Like if it was a 100-day period
that they vowed this vow, the vow of the Nazarite, they could
not have any wine, anything from the wine, any grapes, any raisins
or anything like that for the period of time that they were
under this vow. But if at the last moment they were to come
into contact with some unclean thing, they had to start over
again. But anyway, at the end of this vow, they were to cut
the hair off their head and they were to burn the hair and offer
a blood sacrifice. This was precisely what the Apostle
Paul was going to be doing when he walked into the temple that
day and he was arrested. It was a blood sacrifice and
the Lord prevented him from doing that. But anyway, this was the
vow of the Nashrite. What this means is, is consecration
to the Lord. The vow of the Nashrite is to
be totally consecrated to the Lord. And he is a type of our
Lord Jesus Christ who is totally consecrated to the will of God
the Father. He came not to do his own will,
but the will of him who sent him. God the Father. And Samson
did destroy the Philistines, and our Lord Jesus Christ has
destroyed our enemies. Now, what I want us to concentrate
here was this appearance, this appearance of the angel of the
Lord to Manoah. And remember what I'm asking
is, can a man see God and live? This angel of the Lord that appeared
to Manoah is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ before
his incarnation into this world. It's called a theophany. It's
a previous appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ before his
incarnation. This is not the only time. Like
I said, I believe that God has only spoken to men through the
Word. He is the Word. In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
God has only expressed himself to men through the Word. The
second person of the Trinity, God the Son. He has only ever
revealed himself in the Son. But we have several instances,
you'll remember in Genesis 14, when Melchizedek Melchizedek
is the same angel of the Lord, is the same person. He is the
priest of the Most High God. If you turn with me there to
Genesis chapter 14, and I'm just going to briefly touch on these
places. And I know this is not something
new, but. Genesis 14 and verse 18, when Abraham, you remember, Abraham
went out to do battle against the kings. And it says there
in verse 17, it says, And the king of Sodom went out to meet
him after his return from the slaughter of, I'm going to have
to say it in Spanish, Shaddai-lo-Amer, and of the kings that were with
him at the valley of Sheban, which is the Kingsdale. And Melchizedek,
king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was a
priest of the Most High God." He is the high priest of God.
There is only one high priest of God, and that is the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is our priest that lives forever to make intercession
for his people. That is him. That is Melchizedek.
Also, you remember when the angel of the Lord wrestled with Jacob. The morning was coming, and the
angel of the Lord said, ìLet me go.î And Jacob said, ìIím
not going to let you go until you bless me.î And the angel
of the Lord said, ìWhatís your name?î And Jacob said, ìWell,
Jacob Cheatser Blanquer.î And the angel of the Lord said, ìYour
name is no longer going to be called Jacob Cheatser. Youíre
going to be called Israel.î Israel. Changed his name. The only one
that could change someone, the only one that could change someone
is God. The only one that can give us a new nature is God.
And you remember there in Judges chapter 6 when the angel of the
Lord appeared to Gideon. The angel of the Lord appeared
to Gideon. Gideon said, I saw God face to
face. I'm going to die. And the angel
of the Lord said, peace to you. And he called the name of that
place Jehovah Shalom. God is peace. Well, and we know
who made peace. We know who made peace through
the blood of His cross, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's
look at our text again in Judges chapter 13. I want to show you three things
here of why I think we can see very clearly
how this angel of the Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ. First, and remember, I want to say this.
It is a pre-appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ, of He who
is eternal. Christ is eternal. Christ is
eternal. He is the eternal Son of God.
And Adam, Adam, the first Adam, was created in the image of the
second Adam, whose members were written in the book before the
foundation of the world. in the garden, he was created
in the image of the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ. So him appearing in human form,
it's not a violation of his representation to his people. I want to tell
you this. When the Lord Jesus Christ came
into the world to represent his people, when he came in He was
made bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. He had to be born
into this world, just like you and I are born into this world.
He had to go into the lowest parts of the earth, which is
the womb. He had to be born bone of our
bone and flesh of our flesh in order to represent us. In order
to represent us, in order to be our kinsman, Redeemer, He
had to be born into this world and be born under the law that
He might fulfill and obey every jot and tittle of the law for
us, for his people. Now, in this previous appearance
in human form, he had not come. It was not the fullness of time.
It says there in Galatians 4, in the fullness of time, God
sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. But at this
time, This is the previous appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in a
form of a man. And you see this because they
were talking to a man. Manoah was talking to a man.
He said, Art thou the man? A man appeared. Now, they knew
it was an angel of the Lord. He appeared. He appeared. He said, Are you the man? And
listen to the answer here. He says in verse 11, "...Menoah
rose and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said
unto him, Art thou the man that spakest to the woman? And he
said, I am." On other occasions when
an angel of the Lord appeared, he said, I am Gabriel. Do you remember when the angel
came to Mary and said, I am Gabriel? He readily identified who he
was. I'm Gabriel. But this angel says,
I am. Well, who is the I am? I was
looking at that. Who is the I am? Who has identified
himself as I am? It's Jehovah. Jehovah has manifested,
has declared his name as I am. In Exodus 3, when Moses, when
the Lord appeared to Moses in the burning bush, you remember
the story, when Moses appeared The Lord appeared to Moses in
the burning bush. This is Jehovah. This is Jehovah. The Lord appeared
to Moses. And he said, when I say... Let's
go back there to Exodus 3. Exodus 3. And Moses said unto God, Behold,
when I am come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto
them," this is verse 13, "...saying to them, The God of your fathers
has sent me unto you. And they saying to me, What is
his name? What shall I say unto them? And
God said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, Thus shalt
thou say to the children of Israel, I am has sent you." I Am has
sent you. He is the I Am. The Lord Jesus
Christ identifies himself in Revelation as the I Am. He is
the I Am. And you remember in John chapter
8 when he was standing before all those religious people and
he said, If you don't believe I Am, you're going to die in
your sins. If you don't believe I Am, you're going to die in
your sins. And then he said, He said, Moses saw my day, and
he rejoiced. He was glad. Abraham saw my day, and he rejoiced. He was glad. How did Abraham
see him? How did Abraham see his day? You remember when he
took him up on the Mount Moriah, and he saw the substitution of
God. He saw how the Lord Jesus Christ
would come to this world and give his life in the place, in
the room instead. He said he rejoiced. He rejoiced
to see a substitute. And they said, well, you're not
even 50 years old. How do you know Abraham, our
father? And he said, before Abraham was, I am. And they knew exactly
what he was talking about. And they picked up stones. They
were going to kill him. They were going to kill him.
Well, this is the I am. The Lord said, I am. And this
angel of the Lord said, I am. But Manoah, he didn't know who
he was talking to. So then Manoah, he heard what
the angel of the Lord said, and Manoah wanted to offer him a
kid. He wanted to offer him something
to eat. And I want you to notice the
words of this angel of the Lord there to Manoah in verse 16. And the angel of the Lord said
unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread. And if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, remember a burnt offering was that offering that was holy,
holy to the Lord. And that burnt offering, the
whole sacrifice was consumed. The burnt offering. If you're
going to offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it to Jehovah. You must offer it to Jehovah.
It says here still that Manoah knew that he was the angel of
the Lord. He knew he was an angel. He knew he was a man. He didn't
know who he was speaking to. He said, you're going to have
to offer this offering to Jehovah. And so Manoah did just that.
Manoah did that. And before he offered that, he
asked the angel, he said, what's your name? What's your name so
that whenever these things come to pass, we may honor you? And
the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why do you ask me your name,
seeing my name seen as secret? If you look in the margin there,
the word is wonderful. The name is wonderful. In Isaiah
chapter 9, I want to talk about secret also, but in Isaiah chapter
9, you remember when the Lord said, Unto us a son is given,
unto us a child is born, and his name shall be called..."
What is his name? Wonderful. It says there in verse
6 of chapter 9, "...for unto us a child is born, and unto
us a son is given." The child born is the Word made flesh. is the seed of the woman, the
Word made flesh. That's a child born. A son is given. That's the eternal
Son of God. That's the Word that was with
the Father, equal with the Father. And the government shall be upon
his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of peace,
of the increase of his government, and peace there shall be no end,
and upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order
it, and to establish it with judgment and justice from henceforth
even for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this." But I want you to concentrate on that one
word, wonderful. This word wonderful is rightly
ascribed only to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who is
wonderful in his person. He is God and He is man. God, our very God. There is no
other God but this God. And when we who believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and believe God, one day we're going to see
God face to face. And you know who we're going
to see? We're going to see the Lord Jesus Christ. That's who
we're going to see. None other than the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is wonderful in His person.
He is God and He is man. He is wonderful in His work of
salvation. His work of salvation, when He
came into the world to save His people, He didn't try to save
His people. You shall call His name Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sins. He's not a frustrated
Savior. He's a victorious, conquering
Savior. He's sitting right now. He's
wonderful in His work of salvation. It's all finished. It's all complete. He is wonderful in His grace.
He is wonderful. All about Him is together, lovely.
He is wonderful. And He is wonderful in His exaltation. The Lord Jesus Christ is sitting
right now on the throne. There is a man right now in glory
sitting on the throne. And a name has been given Him
which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
shall bow, every tongue confess that He is the Lord, to the praise
of God the Father. He is wonderful in his exaltation. He's wonderful in his intercession.
He's not going to lose any one of them. Wonderfulness. Well,
he's wonderful. But you notice here in the text
here in Judges, not only does it say in the margin, it says
wonderful, but he says his name is secret. It says his name is
secret. You know, in Revelation, it says
the Lord has a name written on his forehead that no man knows
but he himself. No man knows it but he himself. And that's alright. And that's
alright. You know, we can't begin to understand
everything there is to know about God. If you can understand God,
you have a little God. You have a little God. But I
want to consider for a moment what this secret is. It's secret. Only he knows what it is to be
God. Only He knows what it is to be
God. The universe dwells in God. God is not in the universe. The
universe is in God. And all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily dwells in the Lord Jesus Christ. How are you going to
understand that? Only He knows that. Only He knows
that. Only He knows. Only He knows. what it is, the holiness, the
holiness of God. And only He knows sin. You and I don't know what sin
is. We begin to see a little bit of what it is. But He was
made sin who knew no sin. He knows. He knows. He has a name which no one knows.
Only He knows how He may satisfy God the Father. By His knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many." His knowledge of who God
is. His knowledge of our need. His
knowledge. His name is secret. Well, that's
the second thing. He said His name is secret. His
name is wonderful. And when Manoah went and took
that that sacrifice and offered that sacrifice unto Jehovah,
it says here in the text that when Manoah took the kid in the
meat offering and offered it on the rock unto Jehovah the
Lord, the angel did wondrously. This angel, whose name is wonderful,
he did something wonderful. He did something wonderful. And
what was that? God was in Christ Jesus reconciling
the world to himself. He got into the sacrifice. He
got into the sacrifice. He went up into the flame and
disappeared from before. Now, no man can enter into that
work of redemption. And that work of redemption on
the cross was a transaction only between God the Father and God
the Son. And no man enters into that. God was in Christ reconciling
the world to himself. He alone did this work. He alone
did this work. And when this angel of the Lord
got up in the flames and descended and disappeared from Manoah's
eye, Manoah knew. No angel could get into the sacrifice. He's a creature. No man, I don't
care how perfect he is, if he's just a perfect man, he cannot
satisfy God. Only God can satisfy God. And
only man must die. But this One who is wonderful
both can die and satisfy God. He did something wonderful. He
did something wonderful when He came into the world and He
gave His life to rescue, to save His people. He did something
wonderful. Well, they knew. Menoah said, they fell on the
ground. They fell on the ground as dead
men, and rightly so. And rightly so. You know, John,
the beloved apostle. John, the beloved apostle, was
on the Isle of Patmos. And he was in worship. He was
worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ on the Isle of Patmos. And he
heard the voice. And he turned to see. And he
fell as a dead man. He fell as a dead man. Why? Because the Lord Jesus Christ
is glorious, glorious in His work, in His person. No man can
see God. No man is going to be around
the throne bringing glory to themselves, feeling good about
them. Here's the position of everyone
in glory is bowing to Him, bowing to Him. And he knew that they
had seen God, and he said, We're going to die. God said, No man
can see My face and live. And I saw God. And I saw God. Well, here's the words of comfort. Here's the words of comfort that
this wife of Manoah said to Manoah. He said, look over here in the
text. Verse 22, And Manoah said unto
his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. We
have seen God. We're going to die. And when
a sinner is conscious of who he is before God, he's a sinner. And God is a holy God. God must punish sin. And we deserve
to die. We deserve to die. That is a
time of conviction, a time of trouble. A time of trouble. But here's a word of comfort
to a troubled sinner. Here's the words of comfort to
a sinner. Manoah realized, I'm a sinner
and I've seen God. But here's the words of comfort.
Look here. Verse 23. But his wife said unto
him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have
received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands,
neither would he have showed us these things, nor would at
this time have told us such things as these. There are three things
he said there. First of all, consider this.
If it was God's purpose to kill you. If it's God's purpose to kill,
if it's God's purpose to destroy us, what are we going to do about
it? What are we going to do about
it? If it's God's purpose to destroy us, what are we going
to do about it? It was God's purpose to leave the angels that
fell in chains of darkness. What can be done about it? Nothing. But God has sent his word. God
has sent the gospel. God has sent his son. God has
sent his word and God has sent his son into the world to offer
the sacrifice for the sins of his people. If it was God's purpose
to kill his people, he wouldn't have given his son, would he? What a wonderful thing. He has
sent his son. God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall
not perish, but have everlasting life. If it were God's purpose
to kill us, he wouldn't have sent his son. He wouldn't have
sent us this message. And if a person here is convinced
that they're a sinner before a holy God, Well, this is good
news. You know why? The Lord Jesus
Christ came to save sinners. And if you haven't heard it before,
you're hearing it today. And that's good news. Isn't that
good news? For a sinner, it's good news.
There's a Savior. God is satisfied in the death
of His Son. God is satisfied. And it's good
news because Christ died in the place, in the room of His people. God was in Christ. reconcile
the world to himself, not imputing their sins to them. He laid the
sins of his people on his son, and he died on the cross. Now,
God is not going to demand payment twice, first at the hands of
his darling son, whom he sent to die in the place of his people.
He's not going to demand payment first at the substitute's hands. And then at your hand, if you
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, if you trust in Him, He's not
going to demand twice payment. That's great news. That's great
news. Great assurance of grace and mercy. God is satisfied.
God accepted the sacrifice. This angel of the Lord got into
the sacrifice and went up. He accepted. And how do we know
that God accepted Our sacrifice, our substitute. On the third day, on the third
day, he arose and he went up into glory, carrying his own
blood. And he went in, not to a temple
made with hands. He went into heaven itself. He
went into glory itself. He went there and God is satisfied. God accepted him. Bless God,
everyone for whom he died, we're accepted in the blood. That's
great news. Well, that's a great comfort,
this wife of Manoah saying, if you're troubled about this, God
showed you something. If it was God's purpose to kill
you, there are many people in this world, there are many people
in this world who do not know, well, there's a great vast majority,
they do not know they're sinners. Oh, they say they're sinners,
but you get to talking about what God says about who we are.
There's nothing sound in us. From the top of the head to the
foot, nothing but putrefied sores. Oh, well, I'm not that bad. I'm
not that bad. That's what God says, but you
know what? I'm the exception there. Well, when God shows you
that that's who you are, There's good news. There's a lot of people
that he hadn't shown that to. And he doesn't have to show it
to anybody. And here's another thing. Here's another thing.
If God has showed you, if God has showed you who you are, he
came to save sinners. He came to save sinners. If God
has showed you who you are and you see the Savior, the Scripture
says, I have not said to Jacob, seek ye me in vain. God is not
mocking His people. Does that make sense? God doesn't
say to His people, you're sinners and here's a Savior, but oh,
by the way, He's not for you. That's not it. He says, Come
unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Everyone that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast
out. All that the Father giveth Me
shall come to Me, and him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise
cast out. That's sure, is it? That's firm. That's firm. We
have great confidence, great assurance. If the Lord intended
to destroy us, he would not have showed us all these things. If
the Lord intended to destroy, he wouldn't have shown you this. He would not have shown you his
great mercy in Christ Jesus. He would not have shown you the
satisfaction. Well, can a man see God and live? If a man sees God in Jesus Christ,
he'll live. He'll live. That's the difference
between life and death, is seeing God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
You see, there were two men that were crucified. They were next
to the Lord that day when he was on the cross. And one man,
he was saying they were both reviling him. And then the Lord
revealed himself to one, and he said, He said, Lord, he saw
who he was, didn't he? He saw, Lord, remember me when
you come into your kingdom. And the Lord said, today thou
shalt be with me in paradise. To see him for who he is is life
everlasting. Many people see him just as a
man. And the Lord said, who do men say that I, the Son of Man,
am? And many say, well, you're John the Baptist or Elias If
he's just a man, he can save anybody. But he said, Who do
you say that I am? And Peter said, answering for
all of God's people, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God. And the Lord said, Blessed art
thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, whose flesh and blood hasn't revealed
this to you, but my Father. It's a revelation. The revelation
of Christ Jesus, who He is. To see God in Christ Jesus is
life evermore. the spray.