Thank you, Jimmy. That's all. Turn with me to Exodus chapter 25. If we had such a wonderful service last Wednesday night, I just wouldn't take anything for it. I felt like my spirit was with us. We were able to worship a little bit around the table. And I don't think it's too much to ask the Lord to do it again. twice in a row. Exodus 25, let's read and begin with verse 31. And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold of beaten work. Shall the candlestick be made, its shaft and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers shall be of the same." Notice how he says, "...his, and six branches shall come out of the sides of it." Three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side. Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch, and three bowls made like an almonds in the other branch. with a knot and a flower. So in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. In other words, the uniformity of these designs. And in the candlestick, in this whole candelabra, shall be four bowls made like under the almonds. So that is that main branch in the middle. Shall be four bowls made like under almonds with their knots and their flowers. And if you've got your little picture with you tonight. What he's talking about here are these knobs. Somebody asked me. The knobs are this round part of this design. And the bowls are the almond shaped objects. And the flowers are these parts I've got colored in right there. A little flower. Okay, that's just so you know what he's talking about. And, verse 34, and in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like an almond, with knops and flour. And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, one round knop under every two branches, a knop under two branches of the same, a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick. Their knops and their branches shall be of the same. All it shall be one beaten work. of pure gold. And thou shalt make the seven lamps, that is, to see the seven lamps on top of the whole candlestick, seven lamps thereof, and they shall light the lamps thereof, that is, the priest shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it, the tabernacle. And the tongs thereof, and the snuff dishes thereof shall be of pure gold. Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it with all these vessels. And look that, look that you make them after their pattern." Or another place he said, see that you make it just as I say it. Look that thou make them after their pattern. which was showed thee in the mount." There's a verse of scripture that says, Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. I don't think I've ever fully realized the meaning of that verse until after this study, I've never entered into that verse quite like I have in this study. The wisdom and knowledge of God in ordaining and creating this type of Christ is absolutely the greatest and most glorious thing I've ever seen, the most marvelous thing. The spiritual meanings and the truths contained in all these symbols and pictures of light, candles, lamps, oils, mops, and so forth, are unsearchable. Unsearchable. That is, the complete meaning is past finding out. The ways that this speaks of Christ is past finding out. I almost skipped over this as I began to study it. I almost just said I quit, and still something else that's too big. This thing, this is the tree of knowledge. It just kept growing and growing. The tree, the word is like the tree of knowledge. It's like when you top a branch of a tree or a plant and it grows two more. That's the way this got to me. I'd look up a verse of Scripture and there'd be two more spread out. If I'd look at each one of those, there'd be four. And then that just got so big, I thought, where am I going to start? Where am I going to start? Where am I going to go down? Truth after truth, mystery after mystery, line upon line upon line. Here a type, there a picture, there a Christ. Christ, Christ everywhere. Everywhere I looked, Christ and everything. And I don't know how this will come out. It's all in the Holy Spirit's hands, but I sure hope he reveals it to you like he revealed it to me in a study. Now, you could easily be bogged down with these various parts of this candlestick, these knops and flowers and bowls and snuff dishes and all this sort of thing. It's all very symbolic, I'm sure. God never did anything without divine eternal reason. Yet what I want us to do is see, like I've been saying all along, I want us to see the overall picture. I want us to look at the spiritual meaning of this whole candlestick, the whole thing. In other words, I want us to see the gospel of Christ. We need to see Christ. That's what we need to see. We don't need to be carried away. There's much preaching that does this, that gets sidetracked with little little things and carried away with the little things and missed the overall picture, you know? I know some rambler—I'm prone to rambling myself, but you get to rambling and going into these various little aspects and so forth, and you miss the beauty, the glorious beauty of the whole message of the gospel. It's kind of like—that's kind of like—much preaching is kind of like examining the brushstrokes of a painting. and missing the beauty of the picture. You know what I'm saying? Just get down and look at these, oh, what marvelous brush strokes you must have done. Just look at the picture. Marvel at the picture. Be kind of like analyzing a symphony or some musical score. Analyzing each note and missing the melody. Missing the music, you know? Be kind of like sitting down at a table and going through the ingredients of the recipe and so forth and not eating the food, enjoying the taste. Okay? I don't want to do that. I want to be carried away with the little things, although I'm sure each thing has much more meaning than I bring out here. The candlestick. Turn with me to John chapter 1. We're going to look at the candlestick. that we just read about there. John chapter 1. First thing I want you to notice is the purpose. What's the purpose of the candlestick? Light. That's right. Light. To light the tabernacle. Without it, there'd be nothing but darkness. Without the candlestick inside that tabernacle, there would be no light, only darkness. The scripture says, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. But then it says that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God spoke and said, Let there be light. And right there you have the trinity. of the Godhead. You have God the Father, you have God the Spirit, and God the Word, the light speaking, and God the Son who is light. The earth was in darkness, right, until God spoke and sent the light, that the Holy Spirit moved, and light was upon the face of the water. Now look at John chapter 1, verse 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same, this Word was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him, that's not talking about God, it's talking about the Word. Without the Word, that is Christ. Without Christ was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shined in darkness. And the darkness comprehended it not. Now, man in the beginning was created in light, with understanding. He dwelled in God, who is light. God is called light. God is light. And Adam, the first man, communed with this God. He saw this God with his eyes. He saw this God, or at least some form of God. And he heard God's voice. He walked and talked with God. He communed with God. He lived and moved and had his being in God. His affection, his mind, was in God. He lived. He had spiritual life, okay? Because he dwelled in God, who is light, okay? His understanding was enlightened of who God is and what God had done. But man willfully, willfully, it's on. He willfully rebelled against God. He willfully—this was the only time man had a free will, and he exercised it. And he chose evil over good. He chose darkness rather than light, right? So what happened? God cut him off. God separated him. God removes him from his presence. God said, now the day you eat of this treat, you're going to die. Did he die spiritually? But he didn't actually, when he's talking about death here, he's not talking about annihilation. He's not talking about doing away with. There is no total annihilation. No, the scripture says that souls are going to be in hell where the worm dies not. Even then, they're going to have to pay for eternity for their sins. And Adam was not annihilated, but he experienced his separation from God, who is light. And he was now in darkness, okay? That is spiritual death. Talk about death, it's to be in darkness, spiritual darkness, cut off from God. And the world right now is in this darkness, darkness of sin, this spiritual death. They don't know God. They don't love God. They don't live in God, they don't acknowledge God, can't see God, can't hear God. Blinded. Blinded, deaf, dead in trespasses and sin, in darkness of religious superstition and ignorance and idolatry. That's where mankind is right now. Cut off from God. No way to God and doesn't want to get to God. Okay? And that's all of us by nature. And we still experience much of this dimness, this darkness, don't we? In our very beings. You just judge your own evil inclinations and actions. You're full of darkness, aren't you? Full of it. Your mind, your heart, your lives. We dwell in darkness, don't we? We have such a hard time. Right now you're struggling to listen to what I'm saying. Because we're in darkness. We're bound, aren't we? And spiritual death, like I said, is separation from God. It's to be removed from the light and cast into outer darkness. It's to be void of spiritual eyes, ears, and understandings. To have no heart, no mind, no desire, no communion with God. In other words, it's a spiritual blackout. That's man. That's man. Okay? And man's light—Christ said man has a light. In other words, his understanding, his affection, But it's darkness. And Christ said, how great is that darkness? The light, the understanding that man thinks he has is utter darkness. Christ said that it's the light that is in you. In other words, the understanding that you think you have is darkness. How great is the darkness? In other words, it warps everything. In other words, you're double darkness. Darkness of sin, but added to that darkness. Isaiah 5, 28 says this, "'Woe unto them that call evil good.'" That's how dark man's understanding is. They call evil good now, don't they? In other words, let me put it in the gospel perspective. They call this evil, God-abasing, man-exalting gospel—another gospel, which is not another, but a perversion. They call that good. It's evil. They call all this spirit of Antichrist good, don't they? It's evil. It's directly opposed to everything that's God. It exalts itself against Christ, right? woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. And they call the gospel of God's sovereign grace our only hope, our only help. The only help of a worm in the dust, of a sinner, is the sovereign mercy and grace of God, and imputed righteousness and shed blood of Christ. They call that evil, don't they? They call our only hope evil. And that darkness, he says, that The war unto them that put darkness for light, and light for darkness." You say, I see, but they're in total darkness. Turn to Psalm 18 with me. Oh, how great is the darkness of our generation. How great. It seems like God's snuffing out the light more and more, doesn't he? He's removing the light. Doesn't he? Psalm 18. Now listen. Natural light, like in this tabernacle. This tabernacle had no windows. This candlestick was the only light in that tabernacle. There were no windows. And this is a type of natural light being insufficient to know God by. The light of reasoning, the light of nature, can't reveal the glory of God. Only the candlestick. Only the candlestick. Natural light couldn't reveal the inner glory of the tabernacle, but only that golden candlestick. And even then, in the Holy of Holies, the Shekinah glory of God is what lightened the place. But man's natural reasoning and logic and the light of nature won't reveal God. You can sit in the woods all you want to, can't you? You can't know anything about the salvation of God. If you can see something of His eternal power and His Godhead and how that He made these Only a fool would say, know God, when he looks at all these things. But you can't know God. You can't come to know his person, his character, can you? You can't come to know Christ. You can't be saved, can you? Only through the light, the word, the lamp. Only through the candlestick. God himself must enlighten a man. Man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him. Even so, no man knows the things of God. Save the spirit of God, reveal him unto him. Enlighten the man. God himself has to come and speak light. Let there be light in this dark heart. And God, who is light, must shine in our hearts, mustn't he? These dark hearts, these minds and these affections. And give the light of the knowledge of his glorious person. And he did that. And he does that, even now, to some people. And you know how he gives us life? You know how he sheds us life? Like I said, not by natural reasoning. He lit a candle. Look at Psalm 18, verse 19, wouldn't you? He lit a candle. What a candle. Listen to this, verse 19. He brought me forth into a large place." Now, this is Christ talking. This is Jesus Christ talking here. Listen to it. He brought me forth. God put me into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. It has to be Christ, doesn't it? The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness. It has to be Christ, doesn't it? According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me, for I have kept the ways of the Lord. And I have not wickedly departed from my God, from his youth up. He delighted to do God's will. All God's judgments were before me. I didn't put away one of them. I fulfilled them. I magnified them. I was upright before him. I kept myself from iniquity. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me, given me a name according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. I was a merciful. thou wilt show thyself merciful." That is, he'll show mercy in Christ. With an upright man, thou wilt show thyself upright. With the pure, in other words, with Christ our righteous one, he'll reveal the righteousness of God. With the pure, thou wilt show thyself pure, and with the forward, thou wilt show thyself forward. For thou wilt save the afflicted people. He'll bring down high looks, for thou wilt Light my candle." God lit a candle and put it in the tabernacle. Shines some light on this dark place. Right? The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, a great man, a great high priest, a great Savior. They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined. God Almighty made the sun to rise upon this land. Isn't it? Son of Rochester. Christ said, I am the light of the world. The light. The candlestick. Now look with me at Psalm 132. Turn over to Psalm 132. Christ said, I am the light of the world. And he came into this world, but the world receded not. The darkness comprehended it not. Christ said, this is condemnation, that light is coming into the world, but men love darkness rather than light. This candle came in, but men didn't see it. Right? Why? Why didn't men see this glorious light, this candle? God, in human faith, why didn't men see it? And why don't they see his glory now? Because the candle's in the tabernacle. God was in a man, was in a body, he said. He was in a body. He tabernacled among us, but man didn't see his glory. And it's Scripture says that it would happen when we shall see him. There's no beauty in him that we should desire. I don't see anything. I don't see anything about that tent. I don't see anything glorious about that little brown tent or that little man over there in 2D. I don't see anything glorious. You need to look on the inside. One look of faith on the inside, right? And you'll behold his glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace, truth, full of glorious golden things and silver and beautiful tapestries, the works of God. You'll behold his glory on the inside, precious stones. Look at Psalm 132. I'm telling you what, this is great. Verse 7. We'll go into his tabernacle. Who? We. Us. God's chosen people. We'll go into his tabernacle and we'll worship at his footstool. And arise, O Lord, into thy rest. We'll worship there, and the ark of thy strength will rest in this tabernacle. Verse 13. The Lord had chosen Zion, that is, his church. He desired it for his habitation, for his temple. The church is his dwelling place. He said, I'll abundantly bless her provision, I'll satisfy her poor with bread, their hunger. I'll also clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. And there I'll make the horn of David the bearer, and I've ordained me a lamp for mine anointed. My people will see the light. Why? They're on the inside. glory be to God, only the chosen, the elect. He said the anointed here of God, see the light, see the candle, because they're in Christ by faith. You see that? The glory and the all-sufficiency of Christ is only by anointed eyes of faith, not with the natural eye, not with the naked eye. Are you with me? Come on, man. You have to be a chosen generation. He said anointed. God had chosen Zion. He had to be a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. Remember, only the priest could go into the place and see the candlestick. A royal priesthood to come on the inside of God's house. He decides who gets there. A holy nation, a peculiar people. Remember I said a purchased people? In other words, a slave and a circumcised one at that? Those are the only ones that could get on the inside. That you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his glorious light. The scripture says to see this candle. Yet to be called. Yet to be brought in. Paul said God hath brought life and immortality to life through the gospel. Light. He said God hath called you out of darkness into his glorious light. His marvelous light. He said he's delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us unto the kingdom of his dear sunshine. John said the darkness is in part. This darkness is past now, and the true light now shines. He said, now your light's in the Lord, in Christ. Now your light's in the Lord. Now you see all things in the light of Christ. Turn with me to Luke chapter 11. You see all things. There's only spiritual light and understanding when you see things in Christ who is the light. Okay? Listen. This is spiritual light, seeing all things in Christ. Why? Because Christ is all things. Christ is all and in all. Seeing everything as being Christ. and in Christ. In Him dwells all the fullness, right? Christ is the one who has made unto us everything we need to get to God—wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption. He's made unto us, Christ, not we ourselves, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to Christ, His righteousness. Christ is the one in whom are hid all these treasures in the tabernacle of Christ. God was in Christ. In him, or he had all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and understanding. Christ is the one who is the Lord, our righteousness. Christ is the beloved in whom we're only accepted by God. Christ is the one by whose faith we're justified. Christ is the one by whose body, whose offering we are sanctified. Christ. Christ is the one in whom all fullness dwells. This is the kind of glory of God Almighty in a body, in a tabernacle. Jesus Christ. Look at Luke chapter 11 with me. Look at verse 33. Now, no man, when he hath lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place. And God didn't. He brought him out here, the candle, right? He brought him out here into the world. No man lights a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick. That day which come in—you see that?—may see the light. In other words, you don't take a candlestick outside, though. You light a candle. You don't put it under a bushel, but you put it on a candlestick where people can see. But you've got it in the house. in the house. And Christ is in the church, in the gospel, in the word. He's revealed in a sense, like that. He was in the world, but the world knew him not. But the word reveals him, and not under a bushel. Do you understand that? In those that come in, all that come to God by Christ, by faith in Christ, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. So come in and see this light, right? Now, the light of the body is the eye. What's the body? Christ is the head. We're the body, right? The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, when thine eye is singular, that is, you have one object, when you look in one direction, one object, if I say, one Lord, one faith, right? One object, one single eye, right in the middle, your whole body is full of light. The church is in light. But when thine eye is evil, that is carnal, worldly, looking elsewhere, your body is full of darkness. The church will be in, quote, the so-called church will be in darkness and idolatry and paganism and superstition and tradition and every one of the truth, right? Call evil good, good evil. Take heed therefore, verse 35, take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. You examine yourself to see whether you be in the faith. What faith? Looking to Christ, observing Him, seeing Him in all things. Now, if thy whole body therefore be full of light, he says it again, full of light, full of Christ the light, having no part dark, thy whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle does give thee light. Man hold forth Christ in the pulpit, You'll be an enlightened people once. All right, turn back to Exodus 25 with me. Back to the text, Exodus 25. There's no doubt that this candlestick speaks of Christ. Now, let's look at the design of it a little bit. Exodus 25, the design of it. Exodus 25, look at verse 31. Now she'll make a candlestick of pure gold, pure, pure. He'd have clean hands. He said it before in Psalm 8, they'd have clean hands, and pure gold, pure hearts, pure. Christ is the pure, spotless, holy, altogether loveless, sinless, bright and morning star, isn't he? He's the fairest among ten thousand, the lily of the valley. God's holy one, isn't it? The righteous son of God, pure gold. He's God. He's God. Gold indicates deity. He's God. Pure gold. It says the whole thing is a talent of pure gold, verse 39. Talent. You know how much that is? That's 120 pounds. This candlestick weighed 120 pounds. Now you know how much money that equates to today? over seven hundred and eighty thousand dollars. One candlestick. That's just one little instrument in this whole glorious tabernacle. Pure gold. An ornate and rare and priceless treasure in the midst of this spectacular building. Christ is an unspeakable gift. You can't put a price on him. The Word of God, more priceless than gold, priceless Look at verse 31. And this was a handmade work. Make the candlestick of pure gold, a beaten work. Beaten work. Peter said on that sermon at Pentecost, he said, God has delivered him. He'd been delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, but you have taken it with wicked hands. His candlestick was handmade, and you have taken and with wicked hands have crucified him, beaten him to a pulp, pummeled him to death, wounded him, smote him, stricken him, slit him. Not only by man, but one preacher said, as if God Almighty drew back and hit him right between the eyes. His visage was marred and was beaten, plumbed to death. for our transgressions. He took my beating. He took my licking. What should have happened to me, Joe Park? God should have drove back and hit me, robbed me, cleaned me out. Like an old mule, knock some sense into it. It won't move. We can't see. He did that to Christ. He did a steamer, smitten and stricken of God. Anyone beaten, a beaten work. He took my weapon. Verse 32. And this candlestick contained branches. Six branches come out of the sides of it, three branches one side, three branches out of the other. Seven branches altogether, counting the middle one. Revelation 1.20 says in the mystery of the seven candlesticks is the seven churches, seven churches. We're all, he said, Christ said, I'm divine, you're the, what am I saying? Branches. We're in Christ, right? All in him. Seven branches, seven churches, chosen people, a royal priesthood, but all one. One in one person. One glorious candlestick, the light. You're the light of the world, Christ said. Candlestick. And each one, verse 31. Beaten work in the shaft, the branches, the bowls, the knops, the flowers, shall all be of the same." Same. All made out of the same thing. Same gold. Each of these things, the bowl, the knop, the flowers, has a meaning. The bowl, perhaps, was—somehow or another, this thing held oil throughout. The candelabra was filled with oil. The bowls, I believe, were to receive this oil. God has given us a heart, a bowl, to receive him. The knop has given us a head to understand him. Heard the old saying, knop heads? It's not heads. Some of us are not heads, aren't we? Knop, we've been given a head to understand him. Flowers, fruit of his spirit, flowers. Verse 36, And all of these, the knobs and branches, should be of the same, all made of beaten work, of pure gold. In other words, we are crucified with Christ, partakers of his sufferings. Now look at the oil. Look over chapter 27, verse 20, that which fed this whole thing, that illumined the whole thing. This oil, chapter 27, verse 20. Chapter 27, verse 20. This was an eternal flame. This candlestick burned forever. It was never to go out. Verse 20, And thou shalt command the children of Israel that they should bring thee pure oil, olive oil, beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. The lamp will always burn. Eternal flame. Eternal flame. The scripture says, Isaiah 60, verse 19, The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light. and thy God shall be thy glory." And another place over in Revelation, it said, there's no need for the sun or the moon. Why? The Lamb shall light the place. The Lamb's going to give us light. That description there in chapter 1 of Revelation that describes His being, His face was as the sun that shined in full strength, His countenance being of light, and we'll dwell in that light. I tell you, this is too big. It's too much. Too much for me. Olive oil, beaten. Now turn to Zechariah 4 and get ready. Be prepared. Where's Donny Bell when I need him now? Somebody. One of our ladies said, sometimes I feel like shouting. By all means, if anybody feels like it, do it. I did, in the privacy of my study. Zechariah chapter 4, it says, pure olive oil. Now, this pure olive oil is the pure and holy spirit of the living God, which Christ was full of. The candlestick was full of it. Throw it in the brim, and the spirit says, beaten oil. Spurgeon used to say, or one preacher, I don't know who it was, one preacher said, talking about the necessity of prayer, beaten oil for the lamps. Beaten oil for the lamps. That was his byword, his watchword. A little beaten oil for the lamps, to lighten his plate. Prayer. But this olive oil here, this beaten oil, is talking about the Spirit of God that was in Christ and is in every one of us. Christ's body was beaten, yes, but his spirit was too. He says, remember when he came up to Lazarus' tomb, he says he groaned in spirit, he troubled himself. Remember that? His spirit suffered. Yes, he did. The Spirit of God grieved in Christ. He was bruised and wounded as well, beaten. Now, Zechariah 4, verse 1, read through verse 5. And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me as a man that's wakened out of his sleep. Boy, that's us. And he said unto me, What do you see? And I said, I look, and I see a candlestick all of gold with a bowl on the top of it. And seven lamps thereof, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof. And the two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, another upon the left side thereof. And I said to the fellow, I said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord? And the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Don't you know? I said, No, I don't. I don't know. Look at verse 6. Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord, this candlestick. This is the word of God. The candlestick is the word. What does the psalm say? Psalm 119. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path. Christ is the word. This is Christ. This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel. Now, you know who Zerubbabel was? I like the sound of the name, kind of like that name Boaz. It's a manly name, it's a powerful name. Zerubbabel! Zerubbabel was a fellow that was chosen by the king to come and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. He oversaw the building of the temple. And there was a fellow named Joshua who was the priest in the temple at the time. Zerubbabel and Joshua. oversaw the building of this temple. And God said, verse 6, He said, under Zerubbabel, this thing is going to be built, not by a might, that is, not by an army, that is, by a great multitude, but a remnant. This is going to be a remnant, according to the election of grace. Christ said, My kingdom is not of this world, not of numbers, not of the vast majority, it's a remnant. according to the election of grace. Not by might, not by man's might, not by power. That is, not by word power, not by man power, but how? But by my Spirit, I'm going to build my church, my temple, and say it to the Lord. By my Spirit, my holy anointing oil, which I will pour out into my people and enlighten them into my branches. all coming from the same source. Do you remember back there where it said there was a bowl on top of it all? Verse 3, a bowl. Verse 2, a bowl on the top of it all, that's God, from whom all blessings flow into the candlestick, into my branches. That's holy anointing olive oil. Who art thou, O great mountain?" This mountain, this monumental work of salvation, of building of God's church, is a great one. Our sins have separated us between us and our God, haven't they? It's this mountain that's between us and God. We can't get to God. But who is this mountain before Zerubbabel? It says, O Zerubbabel, we'll bring—he'll make it a plain. He'll plow it up and plant a garden. These rock-hardened mountains, the hearts of our plow, pierce them. They'll become a plain. These rough and craggy mountains we plowed under and turned into a fruitful garden, a land of milk and honey. But before my might is irrevocable. and he shall bring forth the headstone. He's going to set up the cornerstone. He himself is going to plant it, bring this cornerstone to the temple, his church, and here's what they're going to shout. They're going to shout, Grace! Grace. Unto it. Grace. Twice he said that. Ephesians 2, 5 through 8 says it twice. By grace he is saved. By grace he is saved. He built his temple how? Not by might, not by man's power, not by will, not the will of man or the will of the flesh, but by my Spirit. And by this is the rubber boy laying the cornerstone and pouring grace into it, becoming that rock, that sure foundation, right? And filling us full of grace, pouring out his grace upon us. Verse 8, Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel, he laid the foundation of this house, and don't anybody forget it. His hands shall finish it too. He put the cornerstone on, he'll put the topstone on it when it's all said and done. His hands will finish it, and they'll know, they'll know who's they. My anointed, my people. They'll know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you. But who has despised the day of small things? Oh, the world calls this foolishness. The world calls this gospel a bloody religion, foolishness, small things. Well, you don't have much down there, little church. Look at us. We're the church on the triangle. The church where everybody's somebody. Well, we're the church where everybody's nobody, and one person's somebody. Who has despised the day of small things? They'll rejoice, Christ and his church. They'll rejoice. They'll see the plummet in the hand of the rubbable, with those seven. And they, with the eyes of the Lord, and the church, it'll run to and fro through the whole earth. Yeah, it will. Well, haven't they all heard? Yeah, I'd say there's sounds going throughout the earth, the church. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. There are little in number, small here and there, but the eye of the Lord, the light of the glorious gospel, everywhere. Look at verse 11. Then answered I, and said unto him, What about these two trees? What are these two olive trees on the right side of the candlestick, and on the left side thereof? And I answered again. I evidently didn't hear him the first time. He said, What be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes emptied the golden oil out of themselves? And he said, Don't you know? I said, No, I don't know. Would you tell me? Then said he, These are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. That's the Holy Spirit of God and Christ the man combined to make one. Everything that comes from God, the Spirit of God, the man into this glorious candle. That's the person of Christ and the work of Christ that bring life and immortality to life through the gospel. That's the Old Testament and the New Testament, the light of God's Word. Right? And look at this. You're going to jump six feet. Look at Luke chapter 9 with me. Luke chapter 9. Two anointed ones standing by the Lord. Spirit of God, that's Christ's divinity and his humanity, the person and the work of Christ, the Old Testament, the New Testament, many other things, many things. Luke chapter 9, look at verse 28. And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, he 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, he became a light. His reign was white and glistening, shone like a bright light. And behold, there talked with him two men, two anointed ones, the Law and the Prophets, standing by the Lord of all the earth, talking about his decease, which he should accomplish, the building of that temple, talking about that glorious work. That's the best I can do. You remember back there in Isaiah 9 where he said, or 8, to the law and to the testimony. Now, if they don't speak according to this word, to Christ, no light. Nevertheless, the people that walked in darkness, they've seen a great light. And you know this study, this study, to our understanding, is about like lighting a match. It's not much. Dear Lord, we thank you so much for Christ, our Redeemer, who died on the cross and came and did what he did to illuminate life and understanding to dark and dead sinners. We thank you in his glorious name. And Lord, we ask that you don't distinguish this light, or extinguish this light, but rather you would distinguish it, that you would cause it to shine evermore in our hearts and our understanding. In the name of Christ, we pray. Amen.