First John 5, I'm gonna preach what I had begun to preach. Wednesday night, the Lord had accomplished what He desired to accomplish in the preaching there, and as I was writing the things down, I kind of assumed that it wasn't going to be a part of that message, but it all tied together. Okay, so if you haven't heard last Wednesday's preaching, go home now, pull it up, listen, no, I'm just kidding. But do go home and listen to it, though. It's, you know, Sermon Audio, they want you to title your sermons, okay? And it does help keep it organized and stuff, but it's the true God. If you look that up, And just listen down through those things, it'll give you a bit of a foundation of what we're looking at tonight. But we ended here in 1 John 5, and it's where we're going to pick up again. And we're going to have a couple of thoughts at the beginning, and then we're going to lay out basically the doctrine of the spirit of man. Okay, that phrase, spirit of man, is only used, I think, is four times in your King James Bible, and so it's a very easy study to do. And I just looked through a few of those things, and we're just gonna look at that a little bit tonight, okay? Before I do, though, Peter, would you ask the Lord to bless the time of preaching, please? Father, I thank you for this opportunity to be in your house tonight. Thank you that we can once again hear your word, Father. Father, you say where two or three are gathered in your name, you'll be in their midst, Father. And I believe there are two or three here gathered in your name, Father, and you promised to be in our midst. So I ask that you bless Pastor Seeley as he preaches tonight. Give him those words that we need to hear. I ask all this in your only begotten Son's name, amen. Amen. Oh, what a precious name, that name of Jesus. 1 John 5 and verse 10. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. And we just ought to thank God for that. And if you don't have that witness, you ought to just thank God that he just told you you're supposed to have the witness. That's supposed to be there. If it's not there, something's missing. Okay, we'll just keep going. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son. And he tells us what that record is. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his son. These are the verses that we ended with Wednesday night, okay? This is what we closed things out with. This is what was the culmination of it. And this is the springboard for tonight. We're speaking of eternal life, okay? That next verse says he that hath the Son hath life he that hath not the Son of God hath not life It's very plain and simple Salvation is a person. It's Jesus Christ. It is the person of Jesus Christ. It is the Christ of the Old Testament Manifested in the person of Jesus that word made flesh and look at verse 20. I It says this, and we know that the Son of God is come, and we cannot emphasize enough how important that word is, is. That word is denotes a present tense immediately right now, is come. Again, we talked about this Wednesday night. Brother Terry Miller has come to this church. We might be talking about the last 20 years, We might be talking about tonight, but he has come. It's very vague. It opens it up to a lot of things. But right now, at present, Terry Miller is gone. You know he's in the room then. If your Bible says that the Son of God has come, You look at chapter four, and it says, every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God, and this is that spirit of Antichrist, where you've heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world. That Bible was written by the spirit of Antichrist. If it does not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, it is of the spirit of Antichrist, and the Bible tells you that, right there. Holy Ghost has nothing to do with that. Nothing to do with that whatsoever as from the spirit of Antichrist. You're just looking doctrinally at what your Bible actually says, okay? Is is a very important word. All right, and we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and that we are in him that is true. Now, Brother Dale, Threadgill, I got a couple of Dales in here tonight, we gotta single it out. You talked about that thing in Daniel there, where Gabriel came and gave Daniel that understanding, and he gave him that, what was the other word? Skill and understanding in those things. That's what God does. I believe it was Russell brought up, there he is, he's in the back. Russell brought up that unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. It's an understanding. That Holy One of God, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, gives you that anointing on the inward parts, and you know all things. You go to Luke chapter 24, and it says, and then opened he their understanding of the scriptures. It's from Jesus. That's how you have that understanding, from that eternal Son of God. from the word of God. And as I opened it up this morning, or just this evening, that word that you hold in your hand. We know the Son of God is coming and has given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and that we are in him that is true. Even in his Son, Jesus Christ, this is the true God and eternal life. Now all these are just foundation for tonight. We just laid the first course of block. Go to John chapter three. More than likely, you don't even need to turn to it. But I think it's good to lay your eyes on the Word of God. John chapter three. Mara, this is for you. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. What did he say would happen? If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me. This spake he of his death. And here we lift him up yet again. And he is drawing, drawing all men unto him. Why? Because he's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. He tasted death for every man. We looked at that this morning too. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Verse 15, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life. Now what did John tell us in 1 John chapter five? What is that eternal life? It's Jesus Christ himself. That is eternal life. He is eternal life. If you don't have Jesus Christ, you do not have eternal life, let alone the everlasting life spoken of in verse 16. Now we're gonna continue on in this. Go to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11, that great hall of faith. Verse one says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And you can cross-reference that over to Romans chapter one, and you can see about the things that are not seen, but are made evident. Okay, even His eternal power and Godhead. Okay, so faith is the substance of things hoped for. What is hoped for? Hoped for throughout the entirety of the Bible, what did people hope for at resurrection? That's the hope. The hope of the resurrection are the things hoped for, and faith is the substance of that. Why? Well, because we're justified by the faith of Christ. Not by the works of the law. Even we have believed in Jesus that we might be justified by the faith of Christ. Okay? And so understanding those things, it's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Verse six. But without faith, it is impossible to please him. Now what did God the Father say at the baptism of Jesus Christ? This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. You know what God saw? Faith. He saw the faith of Christ in his dear Son. He told John, thus it behooves us to fulfill all righteousness. Why, so that the father would give his voice, saying, I'm pleased in this one. But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, not has, not was, is. And that he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So without faith, it's impossible to please him. So how important do you think it is that you have the faith of Christ? Your whole eternity pretty much hinges on that. What does God see when he looks in you? I, the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. What's he searching for? Let's go to Proverbs chapter 20. Proverbs 20 and verse 27 says this, the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. Now, a candle gives light, does it not? A candle is something that you're not necessarily illuminating the whole room, but if it's dark and all you have is a candle, you walk around to things individually to see them in detail. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly. What do you suppose it's searching for? You have been given a spirit. You have a spirit within you and it was given to you for one purpose, to search. God uses that spirit that he formed within you, we're gonna look at that verse in just a second, that he formed within you to search you on the inward parts. And he's searching for something very specific. Go to Isaiah chapter 26. We were in Isaiah 26, this morning we looked at 19, where it says, thy dead men shall live together with my dead body, shall they arise. But look at verse nine. It says, with my soul have I desired thee in the night, yea, with my, what? Spirit within me will I seek thee early. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. So the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. And Isaiah 26.9 says that with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. That spirit within you is given to you to search. God is using that to search you on the inward parts. He's looking for faith. He's looking to find faith in you. We might look at it later on, I don't know, but Jesus said, when the Son of Man cometh, will he find faith on the earth? Is he gonna be able to find faith anywhere? Faith that he recognizes as his? Man has a lot of faith. Man has a lot of faith, but it's not enough to save your soul. You can put your faith all you want in Jesus, but until you have the faith of Jesus, it's gonna get you nowhere. Good question was asked Thursday night with that woman with the issue of blood. came to Jesus, and he told her, after he had stanched the flow and healed her of her plagues, he said, woman, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the question was asked, well, that was her faith. And it was. Just like your faith, if you had the size of a grain of mustard seed, you could move a mountain. Her faith was enough to motivate her to get to the feet of Jesus Christ. It was enough to put her there, but it could do nothing to cleanse her of her plague. That's why when she touched him, virtue went out of him. You get to the hem of Jesus. You get there. and you reach out and you touch that hem, virtue's gonna go out. But let's look at this again. Ecclesiastes 3.21, let's go there. Ecclesiastes is right after Proverbs if you're having a hard time. Ecclesiastes 3 and verse 21. It says, who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Now, doctrinally, as we look at this verse, what we see is that, number one, animals do have a spirit. They have no soul. They do have a spirit, though. Why? Well, because they know their creator. You look at Job, he says, go ask the rocks, and you go ask the hills, and you go ask the birds, and you go ask the beasts, and they'll tell you who their creator is. They know. That's why I say, there's many times I've said it, we are the only thing in God's creation that willingly refuses to worship him. But even you yourself know your creator. You know who that is. But who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward? Zechariah 12. Let's go to Zechariah 12. I'm just gonna bounce around a little bit here. Just look at a few things and let the word of God just kind of build on itself. The easiest way to find Zechariah is to find Matthew and go towards the front a couple of books. Zechariah 12 in verse one. So far tonight, what we've learned, that eternal life is Jesus Christ, and he that believeth on him shall not perish, but have eternal life. God gave a record of that eternal life, and it's contained in 66 books. That life is in his Son. This is the true God and eternal life, 1 John 5, 20. Jesus Christ, the true God. And we learned that without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must first believe that he is, and that he's a rewarder of them which diligently seek him. We learned that there is a spirit within man, and the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly, and it's looking for that faith. It's looking for the faith of Christ, looking for the evidence of faith. Where'd that spirit come from? I alluded to it, this is a verse. Zechariah 12, one, the burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretches forth the heavens and lay at the foundations of the earth and formeth the spirit of man within him. God formed that spirit in you. He formed that in the womb. I saw a video one time. And of course, you know, Abraham Lincoln says you can trust everything you read on the internet. But I saw a video one time and it had a, it was obviously a kind of an X-ray type of thing. And it showed an egg that was about to be fertilized. Okay, it was blown up microscope type of situation. And once that egg, that human egg was fertilized, there was actually a flash of light. And that's not an isolated incident that they saw that, okay? Take it for what you will, but the Bible says that God formed the spirit of man within him. And this is that true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The instant you were conceived, God gave you a spirit to seek him. To show you you on the inward parts. That's why that spirit's there. Which really gives a whole lot more weight to that verse where Paul says, glorify God in your body and your spirit, which are God's. It's his and he gave it to you. He gave it to you to seek Him. It's the whole purpose of it. Oh, but don't we let our spirit just wander? What does your spirit do? Well, it's that interpreter between the thoughts and meditations of your heart and your mind, the opinions that you make. You let vile affections rule, you let your heart deceive you and lie to you, you let that wicked heart rise up within you, and those, oh, that unclean spirit, it's gonna let those things fester in your mind, and you're gonna form an opinion, and boy, you're gonna act on that, and it's just gonna be wicked and vile, and you are robbing God of the one thing He gave you that spirit for, to seek Him and to glorify Him. You realize when God says it's over, he takes that spirit from you. What can you do to retain your own spirit? Listen, the flesh without the spirit is dead, the body. I think it says the body without the spirit is dead. So when God says it's over, he takes your spirit from you, and it's done, and you can do nothing to retain that spirit, nothing. So what are you doing with it while he's giving you time? What are you seeking out? What are you looking for? What are you so consumed with that it's taking all your time away from seeking him? At best, I mean, the oldest person that I ever knew was 105. Do you know what happened? The day that that person woke up, 105 years old, got partway through the day, they died. And then what was that 105 years? A vapor. It's here for a little while, then it's gone. And yet he gave you a spirit to be able to seek him. You even understand the mercy in that? Brother Dale, do you understand the mercy that he gave you a spirit to be able to seek him? And he gave you a mind to be able to comprehend the uncomprehendable God. Let alone that he gave you his word in your native tongue. Blessed be the name of the Lord. But all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. You realize he gave you breath and a spirit to be able to come here tonight and listen to the Word of God. And through these stammering, stuttering lips, be able to hear the wonderful majesty of the Son of God. Let's go to 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2. I'm gonna start at verse nine, just because this is such an often misquoted, it's not misquoted, it's quoted absolutely perfectly, but it's misapplied verse. And I just love tagging in the antidote for bad doctrine, okay? Bad doctrine comes when you take a verse and you don't let the Bible tell you what that verse means. Okay, that's where you get bad doctrine from. I don't care what man of God told you this he's wrong Look at this. As it is written, I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. And then they say, we don't even know the glories of heaven. We'll not know the wonders of all that that we're gonna see and everything that's gonna be there. We can't know that and we're not gonna know it until we see it face to face. And boy, it preaches good and my goodness, the amens resound about the glory of heaven and what it's gonna be to be up in glory. But the problem with that is God just knew the foolishness of man and what we would do, so he put right after it. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. Guess what, you already know. If you've been born of God, you know what God has in store for you because you've gotten a taste of that glory. You've been, you had the whole Godhead move in. Jesus Christ, as I love how Pastor Askwith put this, Jesus Christ leading an Israeli commando team, kicking down the door of your heart and liberating you from the chains of your own life. You were held hostage by your sin. And Jesus Christ led that team in there. Holy Ghost paved the way, Father drew you, all the Godhead. All the glory that he revealed to us. But he does it by his spirit. Says, for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now, you are, I'll say this dogmatically. And this is a hill I'm willing to die on. You are not gonna find any deeper truth looking at the Greek and Hebrew of a text. On the authority of the Word of God, the secret things belong to God, the deep things of God belong to His Spirit. And if you wanted the deeper meaning out of your Bible, don't go to James Strong or Henry Thayer, you go to the Holy Ghost of God. And you let him teach you. You get alone with this King James Bible and let him search you on the inward parts and stir you up on the inward parts and you let him take you by the hand and lead you through these scriptures. And he will teach you. He'll teach you depth of things that you will never even fathom. You know how I know? Because he just told you, he hath revealed them unto us by his spirit. But now look at this, verse 11, the whole purpose of coming here. For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? Nobody knows in here what's in my heart. The only one that does is God and my own spirit. I don't know what you came in here with tonight. I don't know what your intents are. I don't know what your thoughts are. I don't know if you're building up a case against me. I don't know if you've come in to learn. I don't know these things. Brother David Threadgill, I don't know what the purpose of you walking in this room here is tonight. I know your character and I know you come to meet with God, okay? But for the sake of this, what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? I don't know what your thoughts are. The only one that does is God and your own spirit. If I want to know what's going on on the inward parts of any of you in here, I don't need to go to the one sitting next to you, I need to go to you and ask you, okay, what's running through your head right now? What are you thinking about? Theron, what are you thinking about right now? What was the last thought that went through your head? I want to know you on the inward parts, the spirit of man within him, what's going on? Would you just look up? Okay, the Lord directed you to look at that because he had something for you in that. I had no idea. I didn't know if he was searching up a word, I didn't know if he was looking at the score of the football game, I just didn't know. I had to go to him to find out what was going on on the inside. Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. If you wanna know God, don't go to man, go to God. And right now, he is searching you on the inward parts and you're rising up against that. And you'll make all sorts of excuses. You'll wonder, well, how can anyone be saved? How do I find him? Where do I find him at? Let me just make it very simple for you. You find him right here. This is where you find him. This is where you find his spirit. This is where you find the mind of Christ. This is where you find the mind of God. This is where you find the absolute perfect will of God. Because God's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. In meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves, if God, per adventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. Repentance is something that's given to you by God. And I'm not even a Calvinist. It's given to you by God. You know your belief, that's a work that God does. John 6, 29. This is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. And if the spirit of the man is a candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly, and without faith it is impossible to please him, and if eternal life is in his son, Where do you think you're gonna find that faith? In his word. Romans 10, 17 is so very clear on that. So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Some of you in here tonight do not have circumcised ears. I know of at least one that does. And it's a fresh circumcision. Thanks be to God. Can I tell you something? Even though my thoughts are just kind of disjointed tonight, this doesn't flow nice. I don't have an outline at all. This is just kind of all crammed together and random thoughts put together. Do you know what the Spirit of God does with something foolish like this? Uses it to save them that believe. This isn't a dog and pony show, this is no circus. This is the ministry of the word of God. The reality of God in print being preached to you. Showing you, you on the inward part, showing you why you have a spirit. It's for his glory. so you can worship him in spirit and in truth, and so that he can search you on the inward parts and look for faith, and so that he can lay these things precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little, so that you can know him and the deep things of God. So the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, and he's searching for faith. It isn't Luke 18, eight that he says, you know, when the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? That's what he's looking for. He's looking for faith. The Holy Ghost is moving in and out of the pews. He's searching you. He's stirring you up. He's moving things around and shuffling things. Rummaging around in there, looking around all the junk and trying to find even an ounce of faith. You know what he's gonna find in the froward heart? Zero faith. Because you're not inclined unto the Lord, you're not looking at God. You may sit in this pew week after week after week, never with the mind that I've come to see Jesus Christ. Never with that mind. I've come here to fulfill my religious duty, that's why I am here. But can I just tell you, when you walk through these doors, you have an opportunity to see the King of glory. in the preaching of the Word of God. And it does not matter who is standing behind this pulpit, whether it's myself, whether it's Brother Dale, whether it's Brother Mike, whether it's Brother Theron, whether it's Brother Dale Morey, whether it's Brother Peter Cornelius, does not matter. When this King James Bible is opened, you have the chance to hear the voice of God. You've been given that opportunity tonight. Have you squandered it or have you received instruction? Let's go to Proverbs 15. I like Proverbs. Proverbs 15 in verse three. It says, the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Now we covered this a little bit ago as we were examining the eyes of the Lord. And you notice that those eyes are spoken of as a lamp elsewhere. These seven, as it says in Zechariah, you go to Revelation, you see the candle before the Lord and the lamps before the Lord, and it's the eyes of the Lord, and it's the seven spirits of God, and all of these things before the throne. Those eyes of the Lord are going to and fro throughout all the earth. Do you know what they're doing? They're searching for faith. They're beholding the evil and the good, and they're searching for the faith of Christ. They're looking to see if it's there. They're looking to see if there's been a seed planted. They're looking to see what has been received in that stony heart. They're looking to see if that heart's been broken up at all since the last time it was visited. Did you prepare your heart this week for the preaching? Or did you come in here haphazard? Not a thought of it until you walk in and, oh boy, but yeah, I should probably pray. Dangerously close to being wayside. At best, you're so choked out by thorns. The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches. Let me ask you this, how can you believe who receive honor one from another and not the honor that cometh from God only? How? You can't. You're looking to receive honor from anyone but God. You will not believe. You cannot believe. That's why it has to be him and him alone. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. That he, by the grace of God, may taste death for every man. Go to the end of that verse a couple of times this morning, but there it is in its entirety. Thank you, Lord. Bringing that back around. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. Go to Zechariah 4. Again, I like Zechariah. The more that I'm in Zechariah, the more I'm seeing Jesus, and it's in places that I, I mean, there's some very clear places in Zechariah that it is, oh, that's definitely Jesus Christ, and you know, you go to Zechariah 3, and oh, he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. Oh, and then you find out that man Joshua represents Jesus Christ. Yeah, let's look at that for a second. And the Lord said unto Satan, the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire? Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire? Now, he continues, he says, now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel, and the angel that spake unto those that stood by before him, saying, take away the filthy garments from him, and unto him he said, behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with a change of raiment. Then said I, or then I said, let them set a fair mitre upon his head. You know what that fair mitre says on that head of the high priest? Holiness unto the Lord. that he may bear the iniquity of the holy things. He bear the sins of many, made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Somebody shout hallelujah for that. I'm telling you, he hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. And I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live because he was that bird slain. And I was that bird dipped in that blood and released. And I went off into that open field, bearing the blood of Jesus Christ with this sacrifice, this living sacrifice, my body. Hallelujah. Set a fair miter upon his head so they set a fair miter upon his head and clothed him with garments and the angel the Lord stood by and the angel Lord protested unto Joshua saying thus saith the Lord of hosts if thou will walk in my ways and if thou will keep my charge then thou shall also judge my house and shall also keep my courts I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by Here now Joshua the high priest thou and thy fellows that sit before thee for there men wondered at for behold I will bring forth my servant the branch and For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua, upon one stone shall be seven eyes. Amen. And I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. Now, who is this Joshua? Who is this branch? Well, we know that that branch is Jesus Christ, that rod, the stem of Jesse, that rod. We had a conversation beforehand, and she gave me some things that she had typed out, and oh, it's good. The Lord's given her some light on some stuff. Thank the Lord for it. But in Zechariah 6, just continuing in this thought, Verse nine, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, take them of the captivity, even Haldai of Tobiah and Jediah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day and go into the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah. Then take silver and gold and make crowns and set them upon the head of Joshua, the son of Josedek, the high priest. That same Joshua that stood in filthy garments and there was a bran plucked from the fire, Satan standing at his right hand to resist him look at verse 12 and Speak unto him saying and now this is what is being spoken to Joshua Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts say behold the man whose name is the branch Joshua the high priest is a picture of Jesus Christ in that He is that brand plucked from the fire And you go ahead and you try to explain that away all you want, but that's in your Bible. The deep things of God. Right now he's searching. Now, what I really wanted to look at was Zechariah 4. We're pretty much there. Look at verse 2. Now we'll start verse 1 and the angel that talked with me came again and walked awaked me as a man that is wakened out of a sleep and Said unto me what seest thou when I said I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold with a bowl on the top of it and his seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps Which are on the top thereof now, you know what that lamp is You know what that candlestick is You've been in Leviticus long enough searching for Jesus Christ that you in an exodus and that that thing that was had that lamps to give light over against it to to show you the candlestick. It is Jesus Christ. That Holy Ghost is burning in those lamps at flame, turning that oil up, sending it a little brighter to show you just a little more detail of that holy candlestick, all made of gold. And the two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on the left side thereof. So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, what are these, my Lord? And the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, knowest thou not what these be? And I said, no, my Lord. And he answered and spake unto me, saying, this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Lowercase s, spirit. And the Lord of hosts is speaking. It's Jesus Christ. Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zerubbabel? Thou shalt become a plain, and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace, unto it. Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands also shall finish it. Author and finisher of our faith. And thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you, for who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven. They are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth. And there's more there, and I wanna get into it. I'm gonna get into it, look at verse 11. Then answered I and said unto him, what are these two olive trees by the right side of the candlestick upon the left side thereof? And I answered again and said unto him, what be these two olive branches, which run, which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered and said, knowest thou not what these be? And I said, no, my Lord. Then he said, he, these are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. The two anointed ones, what two anointed ones? These that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. These two things pumping oil into those golden pipes to light that candlestick so that it'll shed light over against it so that you can see the candlestick. What is it that is giving light to that lamp to make it so you can see Jesus Christ? We gotta go to Revelation 11 to see that. Oh yes. Oh yes, brother. Verse three, and I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand, two hundred, and threescore days clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, amen, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Pretty sure we just read that in Zechariah. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeded out of their mouth and devour their enemies. If any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut up the heaven that it rained not in the days of their prophecy. Now who did that? Elijah. And have power to over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. Who did that? Those are your two prophets. Those are the two prophets that are gonna be there. You don't need to wonder anymore, God told you. You read commentary after commentary and you're never gonna see that. You go to any Bible college across this world and you're never gonna see that. But guess what? The deep things are with God. Now we have Elijah who was a prophet, we have Moses. What does the Bible say about Moses? The law came by Moses. So what do we have? We have the law and the prophets. Two witnesses pumping oil into that lamp to show you Jesus Christ. Friends, that's why you need a whole Bible. Friends, that's why you need a perfect Bible. Because God wants you to see the fullness of his dear son, Jesus Christ, the righteous. He wants you to see him in the volume of the book. He wants you to see him high and lifted up. He wants you to see that spirit of prophecy in all of his prophets, which is the faith of Jesus. He wants you to see the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. He wants you to see in all the law and all the prophets and the Psalms, all the things concerning him. He wants you to see Christ of the Old Testament. And so what did he do? He gave you a Bible. And he gave you a spirit to search. Do you believe that? Can you believe that? You can. It's according to your will. You can believe that. Ah, that's good enough, I think we're done with that. You know, when the Holy Ghost is satisfied, when He is searching, you know, the preaching of the Word of God is going on, and He's stirring up things, and you're fighting to stay focused because all these thoughts of your past just keep getting stirred up, and you just can't focus on what's being spoken, and you're pushing that off, and pushing that off, and pushing that off, and all of a sudden, the Holy Ghost just grabs right hold of you, grabs your head, points it down, and says, look at that. You can't get away from it anymore. He shows you a dark corner of your heart that you forgot was there. He shows you a dark corner of your heart that you didn't wanna look at, because it was too black, too vile, too wicked. No, Lord, I can't look at that. That offends you, I can't look at that. He says, it offends me, and we're looking at it. Then what he does is he takes the law and the prophets. He takes the law of God, that schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. And he takes that thing and he turns the oil up just a little bit more. All of a sudden that light becomes blinding. All of a sudden you can see details of that thing that he showed you that you forgot about and you just, you're writhing in pain and agony over the thing. And you just can't imagine that God is showing you this. Why God, why are you showing me this? Says because that's hindering your faith. That's hindering your belief That is the thing I have ought against you and you're refusing to look at it. I want to give you repentance on that I want to show you the goodness of God in that out brother He even says I want to show you that I can take that thing from you Does he take it You know how I know he takes it Because I see this young lady right here who can lift up holy hands without wrath and doubting. I see goodness and mercy personified. I see holiness within that results in holiness without. I see a heart that once diviseth mischief and wicked imaginations glorifying God. I can say that about her because she's half me. Yes, she is the better half, that goes without saying. He knows. He understands. Listen to this, though. All of this goes on in preaching. The whole time the foolishness of this preaching has been going on, this is what the Spirit of God has been doing. He's digging. You know, my middle son, Austin, he gets this from me, he likes to rummage. He wants, when he gets a house, he wants an entire room full of drawers with little knickknacks and doodads and the coolest little things you can possibly find, just to look through the drawers. I love to do that. That's what the Holy Ghost is doing to your heart. He's getting in there, and he's moving around, shucking around all that junk, clearing the way, pointing a couple of things out to you. If you're smart, when he points them out to you, you say, yes, Lord, that's me. You know what happens when he does that? He gives you repentance on that, and you hate it. You hate it. You hate that thing he showed you, and you don't want it anymore, do you, Peter? Isn't it cool, he changes your want to. Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. He'll give you whatever your heart desires because why, he purifies it by faith. All of a sudden you desire the right things. He's a father that delights in giving things to his children. If you being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall the father give good things to them that ask him? You know what that good thing is? Luke 11, 13 tells you, the Holy Spirit, it's the only place, capital H, capital S is used. One time. I believe it's connected with adunction. Also only used one time. The Lord just put a verse in my head, and we're gonna look at it, we're gonna be done. I'm not sure why we're going here, but we're going here. Psalm 16. Before I read this, I wanna say, I do believe that God just turned over a stone in someone's heart. And this verse is for you. Whoever it was that he just did that in, this one is for you. It's for one person in here tonight. Verse 11. that will show me the path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy. Why don't you have joy? Because you're not in his presence. Because if you were, there would be fullness of joy. Whether things go right at the bank or not. Whether things go right at the store or not. Whether things go right at work or not. Whether things are going right at home or not. In thy presence is fullness of joy. And at thy right hand, there are pleasures forevermore. You understand that sin has pleasure for a season. But at the right hand of God is Jesus Christ, eternal life. And at thy right hand, there are pleasures forevermore. And that's where we're ending tonight. Theron, come on up here and lead us in a song and we'll go home.