Shall we repeat in the Gospel according to Matthew chapter sixteen? We'll read from verse thirteen. Matthew sixteen verse thirteen. When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, Saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they say, some say that there are John the Baptist, some alike, and others Jeremiah's are one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye I am? Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed are thou Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee that thou art clear. And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus Christ. From that time forth. Now here is a change. From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things. The elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. But he turned and said unto Peter, Can thee haunt be Satan? For thou art an offence unto me, for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross. and follow me. Now the last verse of the chapter, verse twenty eight, Verily I say unto you there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till he see the son of man coming in his kingdom. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter and James and John his brother and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart. And he was transfigured before them. and his face did shine as the sun, and as Raymond was white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with them. Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here, if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold a voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. And from the disciples heard it, they fell on their face and were sore afraid. Jesus came and touched them and said, Arise, be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man save Jesus only. Again may God bless others' blessings. to the reading of this very lovely portion of his word. We have been looking through Holy Scripture what it has to say about seven good periods where God was dealing with his people. They are called dispensations or administration. The economy of God when he's dealing with mankind. There are seven of them altogether. We have already outlined them. This morning we were speaking about seven great covenants in Holy Scripture. And we believe one of the great keys to the interpretation of the Word of God are those covenants that God has made with his people. Anyone that will study them, I think it opens up a wonderful field for investigation and also a wonderful interpretation of the overall picture of God and his administration with his people throughout the ages. Now this evening I want to step over into the New Testament. The Gospel according to Matthew has often been called the dispensational Gospel, and I think rightly so. It indicates a very dramatic change in God's dealings with his people on this change that I want to speak about for a little while tonight, particularly from the Gospel according to Matthew. It's rather remarkable that in the Old Testament There are a number of indications about the coming of the Savior. And practically every item of His person and work we find in the Old Testament. We get it in the Pentateuch. We get there in anticipation of Him coming back again. There we get great types and pictures and illustrations of the person of Christ. We come over into the book's arms. And there we get it poetically. And then going over into the prophets. Prophetically, we get the coming again of the Lord Jesus. But it would be interesting to look at some of the great prophecies concerning the coming of Christ. It covered the whole picture in a remarkable way. Long before Christ was born. Long before the incarnation, practically every item connected with this personal work is outlined for us in the Old Testament. I have made a note of one or two that I want to mention before we look This lovely book, the Gospel according to Matthew. In the second psalm we get is eternal sonship. It would be interesting to turn over to that beautiful, beautiful psalm, and we believe that there, the decree that was told, Thar art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Thar art my son, that is eternal. This day have I begotten thee, that is messianic. The eternal sonship and the pre-existence of our blessed Lord in eternity past we find in the second Psalm. Then his virgin birth. We get that lovely passage in Isaiah chapter seven. We get it prophetically there, the fact that the Son of God would be born of a virgin. One of the great fundamental doctrines of Holy Scripture is the virgin birth of Christ. A two-fold testimony to it, we get in the New Testament. in the Gospel according to Matthew, and also in the Gospel according to Luke. Dr. Luke, in the most beautiful and delicate language, he speaks of the virgin birth of our Blessed Lord. So we get, first of all, his eternal sonship, and then we get his virgin birth prophetically in Isaiah chapter seven. And then we get the place where he was to be born, and the prophecy of Micah, were either but Ephrata or Bethlehem. It was there that Lord Jesus would be born. And in the most beautiful language there, we get the place where the incarnation would take place. And then the time when he was to be born, one of the most precious and one of the most important passages in the Word of God concerning the appearing of Lord Jesus of his incarnation we find in Daniel chapter nine. and anyone that would take the trouble to investigate the passage of Daniel's seventy weeks and at the end of the sixty-ninth week the Messiah wants to appear. I think it's Sir Robert Anderson in that magnificent book that he wrote, The Coming Prince. He lends out those seventy weeks of Daniel and to me he proves beyond the shadow of a dark that the incarnation and the life and death of Christ was was not only prophesied in the book of Daniel, but actually the very time of the very day when he was to be manifested to Israel. He points out that when Christ presented himself at the temple in Matthew chapter twenty-one to a day, it was the end of Daniel's sixteenth week. He was rejected at that time when the clock stopped. Now to me that is remarkable. Anyone that will investigate That great subject, the appearing of Christ on the day that it was to take place, the time that it was to take place, would have no doubt at all about the complete authority and inspiration of the Word of God. And then the ministry in Jordan. That lovely passage in Isaiah chapter forty, word by John the Baptist, the man who was the voice, speaking in the wilderness. and that lovely prophetic passage concerning the ministry of Christ and its inauguration in Isaiah chapter forty we get that there and then his rejection by Israel Isaiah chapter fifty three on the first three verses it speaks of the rejection of the Savior by the nation and then his death and glorious resurrection all he to do is to turn over to the twenty second Psalm You'd almost think it had been written underneath the cross, written one thousand and fifty years before Christ was born. And yet what a beautiful and yet the most pathetic passage concerning the sufferings and death of the Savior upon the cross. And then his glorious resurrection, we find that in the sixteenth Psalm. And then finally his coming back again in glory, we find in Zechariah. So here we get the prophecies concerning the King. And we get the complete outline in the Old Testament scriptures concerning it and these wonderful prophetic passages. Now what I want to do is to pick up the thread in the Gospel according to Matthew. Here we get the presentation of the King. And I want you to notice right at the very commencement of the Gospel according to Matthew when the King was born. He presents his credentials. The gospel, according to Matthew, it starts with genealogy. And we read that he was the son of David and the son of Abraham. Not the son of Abraham and then the son of David. David, of course, was the king. Abraham was a patriarch. But we read he was the son of David and the son of Abraham. That's when we were speaking about two great covenants that were given both to Abraham and to David. But here, the very first sentence in the Gospel according to Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, he's presented first of all as the king, the son of David, and then the son of Abraham, the seed of the woman. Now, the first four chapters of the Gospel according to Matthew, we get the credentials of the king. One can take time here tonight to go into the seven different things that are said in these chapters concerning his credentials. Let's just mention one or two. The first is his genealogy. You know, when I was young, part of a young believer, when I read the genealogy and Matthew and the genealogy and looked, I was so inclined to skip work those very difficult names. I didn't think they were important. But you know, for a king, it's very important to have a genealogy. I learned this the hard way over in Africa. We spent a good deal of time over her life, over a period of forty years, in language work. We had three different African languages as well, a Portuguese language, and we had to learn these by hard work. We didn't have the gift of tongues. I wish I had. But it meant hard, hard work. and sitting down and studying over a long period of time. And I remember when we were learning the Songo language, that was the language that we committed to writing over fifty years ago, going out into the villages and sitting in a law court when it was being carried on. On the one side there was a man there, an African, an old man generally, and he was the judge. And then the person who committed the crime was sitting on the other side of the Palaver House. And then there would be the witnesses for the prosecution. And then the attorney, for the, at least the representative of the man who was being accused of a crime. But before it started, the case, every man there that was to open his mouth had to tell his genealogy, starting with the judge. And the judge would hold up his hand and said, my father was so and so. his father so-and-so, his father so-and-so, his father so-and-so, his father so-and-so, and he would go over his ten fingers and he would tell the different members of his genealogy right back to ten generations. And then he would start on his toes and he would put out his foot and they would say, his father so-and-so and so on, over the ten toes and then start again on his fingers. And he would go right back to the commencement of the tribe. It always was a woman. Her name was Kafuti Kambumba. And after he had told his genealogy, he said, now I have Jichikamilla. That was the term that they used for telling her genealogy. And I said, there is my genealogy. That's where I come. And each person who opened their mouth in a law trial, they had to tell where they came from or else they had to keep their mouth shut. They were a slave. And then they looked at him and said, are you able to Jichikamilla? Can you tell your genealogy? And I would hold up my hand and I would say, my father was so and so. And his father was so and so. And his father was so and so. But when it came to my fourth finger, I didn't know. And I told him, I said, I don't care. And to me, it's not important. Well, they said it is to us. And if you're not able to tell your genealogy, well, you're just a slave. You have no importance, whatever. And I learned. over there among these people it's very important to have a genealogy and to know where you came from and that is the important of these two great genealogies of the king first of all in the gospel according to Matthew and in the gospel according to Luke I believe one comes from Joseph's standpoint and the other from the standpoint of Mary on the two genealogies together they give the credential of the king the son of David the king to sit upon the throne. That is the first item of the credentials here of the king. Secondly, his virgin birth. And Matthew is a lovely, lovely account of the virgin birth of the Savior. Do you believe that that's important? I've been told that it's not important at all. My beloved friend here tonight, if I did not believe in the virgin birth of Christ, I would close my Bible and go home. You see, why? If he was not virgin born, he could not be my Savior. He would have inherited an evil, wicked nature, just as I did. But thank God God wrote a miracle, a super miracle when he brought his son into the world. And thank God he's called that whole thing. I do thank God for the virgin birth. And I'm awfully thankful too that it was a medical doctor. And don't go away with the idea that he was a kind of a quack or a kind of a charlatan. Dear Dr. Luke, it has been proven again and again that he was an outstanding scientist. And all that he writes, not only in the Gospel according to Luke, but in the Gospel in the Acts of the Apostles, has been authenticated by very cursed earth, an outstanding man. And a sympathetic man, and I'm awfully glad for his testimony. first of all, genealogy, and then the virgin birth, and then the Messianic passages of scripture that are quoted, the witness of the word, and then there's angelic witness here, and then there's a threefold witness of earth to the king, the fact that he was born in Bethlehem, and we find these seven credentials in the first four chapters of the Gospel according to Matthew. First of all, the credentials of the King. We come over into chapter five through chapter seven, and there we get the Constitution of the King. First of all, his credentials, and then his Constitution. There have been a number of interpretations put upon the Sermon on the Mount. I personally believe that those three great chapters of the Constitution were by the kingdom, when Christ will be on the throne in the millennium, whereby it will be administered. It is the Constitution of the King. Any country, they have a Constitution. Here in the United States, if you go to Washington, they have a very, very important document there, the Constitution of the United States. And we thank God that God has a Constitution too. And the King will be administered, I believe, in a coming day, by what we find in those three Greek chapters, five and six and seven. Now, I know they have other applications that we're not going to speak out tonight, but I think that fundamentally it is the constitution of the king and the principles whereby that kingdom will be administered in the coming day. And then coming over into chapters eight and nine, we get the confirmation of the king. Did you ever notice in Matthew's Gospel, there in those two chapters, ten miracles are telescoped into those two chapters. They're concentrated there, and they're in four different spheres. And I believe that those miracles, those wonderful works of Christ, when you hear below, it gives the fact that he was the Son of God and proven by his power in four different spheres. First of all, in the sphere of nature. and then secondly in the sphere of him of the human body and then in the satanic sphere read about him casting out demons and then finally in the sphere of death our Lord who is here below he performed these miracles Thirty-five of them altogether that are recorded, but they're in four different spheres. But in the Gospel according to Matthew, ten of them are deliberately chosen, and we find them in these two chapters, and right in the center we get another miracle. Matthew, who wrote the Gospel, he tells his conversion right in the center of these ten miracles. And the whole idea is, do you want to see a miracle? Well, look at me. Look what happened to me. Levi, the tax collector, the man who was the servant of Rome, and he said, look at what happened to me, and that's a miracle of you, please. So in these two chapters, eight and nine, there we get the confirmation of the king. First of all, his credentials, his constitution, and then his confirmation. In chapter ten, we get the commission of the king. The Lord, he chose his twelve disciples. and he sends them out two by two to preach the gospel of the kingdom. I believe that in that great chapter, chapter ten of the gospel according to Matthew, I believe there we get the principles that should characterize the work of God at the present day. We're not going to speak about that tonight, but I believe that anyone who's interested in the spread of the gospel, taking the gospel particularly into pioneer areas, should very carefully study. the principles that are laid on there for the carrying on of the work of God. Two by two. You know, the Bible does not give a lot of encouragement to a lone wolf. I believe that the principle is that a person who goes out into the work of God, I believe it's a lovely thing to have a fellow worker. I think I speak from experience. We've been fifty-seven years in our full time on the work of the Lord, mostly in pioneer work. And I thank God for good fellow works. Men and women that we have been linked with on the work of God. And you know, it's a wonderful thing when it's Paul and Barnabas or Paul and Silas. Moses and Joshua. Paul and Timothy. I think that these principles should be observed today. The Bible does not encourage a lone wolf or freelance. I think that when we get a person going out of the work of God, it's a wonderful thing to have a good fellow worker to be along with them, especially if it is on the foreign field, on in pioneer work. So there in that chapter, chapter ten, we get the commission of the king sending out his twelve disciples on to preach the gospel of the kingdom. But when we come to chapter eleven, we get the claims of the king. You remember in that great chapter, chapter eleven, of the gospel according to Matthew, he speaks about his father and his son. No man knoweth the father, but the son. And no man knoweth the son, but the father. And to whomsoever the son shall heal him. That's a tremendous statement. The relationship. the interrelationship between the Father and the Son, he claims there to be the Son of God. But in chapter L, there comes a crisis. And it's this that I want to seek out for a moment or two here tonight. Here is the critical point in the ministry of our Blessed Lord. I think that is the central thing in the Gospel according to Matthew. It is a dispensational picture that we get in chapter twelve. The Lord... had given his ministry. He had performed his miracles. And finally, in chapter twelve, a little delegation from the Sanhedrin, they come to examine what he had done and what he had said. And deliberately, they said this, the miracles that he's performing is not done by God himself, it's done by B.L. Zeebub, the Prince of Demons. Now, that was a dramatic statement that they made, a very serious statement. It wasn't done in a hurry. It was the considered deliberation of the leaders of the nation. And they say, this is not the work of God. This is the work of the devil himself. That was the dramatic thing. It's the crisis in the gospel according to Matthew. And from the same time, the Lord, he said, this is the unpardonable sin. You know, some people today, they feel that they have committed the unpartnable sin. Anyone that will examine the passage will see that it's a national thing. It was the leaders of the nation that deliberately formed that judgment concerning the work that Christ was doing. And immediately after this, there's a change. It's the turning point in the ministry of Christ. My beloved friend here tonight, it could be a turning point with you. I don't know who is in the audience tonight. We would like to present the claims of Christ to you, and if an awful lot will depend on what you do with it. I was speaking tonight with a dear friend about someone that we knew over sixty years ago in the old country. He came to some gospel meetings where I was led to Christ. And that young man, as a personal friend of mine, he made a deliberate choice at a time. He turned his back upon Christ, and he went out into the dark. He went over to Australia. And some little time ago, not so very long ago, I was over there, and I met him. And after a good deal of trouble, I went in. And I sat down and talked with him. And I never, never heard so much blasphemy. come out of the mouth of any man as he did. I believe he was an hostage. I believe his doom is already sealed. He's a man that made his choice and went under the dark. Now, that is a national sin here, but it could be a personal one. And my beloved friend, when the claims of Western presented to you, a lot will depend on what you do with it. And all I would appeal to you is to listen to that lovely invitation. that we find in Matthew chapter eleven. It was just before this decision was made by the nation of Israel. Come on to me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and gloly heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is life. O my beloved friend, and I find I come to that one who offers rest and peace. He's the only one that can, but it depends on the decision that you make. And if you go out into the dark, you could become an apostate too. I think that that can happen long before life comes to at all. But as far as the nation was concerned, that was the choice that they made. And from that point on, in the Gospel according to Matthew, the ministry of Christ changes. We come over into chapter thirteen, and there we get the parables of the kingdom of heaven. I believe that those seven parables of the kingdom of heaven is a complete change in the ministry of Christ. We're not going to go into it here tonight, but there he's outlining in a prophetic way in those seven parables of the kingdom with what will happen today and also in the future, issuing in the kingdom of God in a coming day when Christ will be upon the throne. And then we come over into chapter sixteen, the passage that we read here tonight. And here are four great revelations that Christ gives. You remember he asked the question. He went to Caesarea Philippi. It was outside the confines of the land at that time. It was a Gentile ground. And the Lord goes to Caesarea Philippi and with the disciples around him he said, Whom did men say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they replied the different rumors and reports that were floating around about him. And then he said, Whom do ye say that I am? And Peter speaks up. He said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. What a wonderful, wonderful reply that was. Osama and Peter had made his decision about the person. Thou art a Christ. The Son of the Living God. And the Lord in reply to that said, Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven. Now that is the first revelation. There are four of them here in that passage. And that is the first one, and it is most important, it is the person of Christ. My beloved friend here tonight, the only one that can reveal Christ to you is God himself and the Holy Spirit of God. That is what salvation really is. It's the revelation of Christ that all his beauty, his glory, his majesty revealed to the soul. Thou art the Christ, said St. Peter, the son of the living God. You remember the question that the Lord asked, whom do men say that I the son of man am? But Peter replies, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And they didn't apply, the Lord said, flesh and blood, not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. That is the first revelation. And then the second one, And I also say unto thee that are here, And on this rock I will build my church on the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. That is a second revelation. It's the greatest and the first revelation concerning what is happening at the present time, the ecclesia, the church of the living God. The first is the person of Christ. On the second revelation here is a revelation of Christ, Simon Peter, I also say unto thee that there are Peter and on this rock I will build, notice future, I will build my church. Now this is a crisis in the ministry of Christ, something that is mentioned for the very first time the introduction of the church. You don't find it in the Old Testament. I know that some people do on what today is called covenant theology. I didn't mention that this morning. I had no intention of mentioning it. But there's some people today on the belief in what they call covenant theology and the belief that the church is in the Old Testament. And the church in the view is just simply a continuation of what we find in the Old. That is not true. It's something entirely new. It is a French revelation. I will build future. My church on the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. That is a second revelation. And then a little further down, we get a third. And that third revelation is the cross. From that time on, the Lord, he spoke to the disciples and he told them that he was going to Jerusalem and he was going to die. First of all, the person of Christ. Secondly, the church. And thirdly, the cross. And from this point on we get nine different references to the cross. From this point on it is one steady march to the cross. And on a ninefold way the cross and the sufferings of our blessed Lord are opened up by him to the disciples. And then the fourth one is the last verse in the chapter. Verily I say unto you there be some that standeth here, that shall not taste of death until the sea. The Son of Man coming in his glory. What does that mean? It is a wonderful scene in chapter seventeen where we get the transfiguration. A beautiful, beautiful picture of Christ in his glory, in his kingdom in the coming day. So let's consider and just get it clearly in our mind. The fourfold revelation that we get in the center of this gospel according to Matthew. It is a dispensational picture. It is a crisis. It is the parting of the Old Testament into the new, something entirely new in this fourfold revelation. First of all, the person of Christ. Secondly, the church. Thirdly, the cross. And fourthly, the coming of Christ in glory. And one could spend a long time in going into these four different things that are revealed here right in the center of the Gospel according to Matthew. Just a word. You know, one of the great doctrines of Holy Scripture that we find in the New Testament is the doctrine of Christ. One loves to speak about the person of our Blessed Lord. You go into the doctrinal epistles, the first chapter of Hebrews that we just read just a little while ago. The first chapter of the epistle of the Colossians, the first chapter of the epistle to the Ephesians, these great doctrinal statements concerning the person of Christ, Philippines chapter two, where we get this humanity and that multiple stoop that he took when he came down for our salvation and died upon the cross, the person of Christ. This is something that's under attack today. I don't need to tell you that the day in which we live, the doctrine of Christ is under attack. I know I do pray for the very core of my being that up until that time when Christ shall come, that we may be faithful and loyal and true to that blessed one who died for us upon Calvistras. His complete and essential deity, his holy, sinless humanity, his impeccability, his humanity. These are things, I think, that we need to hold to very, very dearly, the person of Christ until he comes back again. First of all, this great revelation that was given to Simon Peter and his confession of it, and then the doctrine of the church. Let me repeat, beloved friends, tonight that we do not find the church in the Old Testament. It's a revelation that is given by the very first time by Christ. What's he speaking about here? What is the church of the present era? It's composed of every true believer who has been born again. washed in the precious blood, regenerated by the Holy Spirit of God, unlinked to the head, unlinked to every saint that loves his name. It's the universal church that the Lord is speaking about here. It starts at Pentecost and it goes right through that time when Christ shall come when the church will be complete. Three lovely symbols in the New Testament concern it. First of all, the body. and then a building, and then the bride. These are the three really symbols of the church, the universal church. First of all, the body. We get the head and the epistle of the Colossians. We get the body mentioned nine times in the epistle of the Ephesians, the body of Christ. Every true believer is a member of that body. When we trust Christ for salvation, we're baptized in the Holy Spirit of God into the body. The Apostle speaks of this in First Corinthians, chapter twelve, verse thirteen. For by one spirit were you all baptized into one body, whether you be Jew or Gentile, bond or free, and have been all made to drink of one spirit. That completely knocks the bottom out of some teaching that's going around today, that baptism into the body, or the baptism of the Holy Spirit is some subsequent to conversion. Notice it's inclusive. Twice we get that word all. For by one spirit were you all baptized into one body, whether it be true or Gentile, bond or free, and of an all made to drink into one spirit. What a lovely truth the body of Christ is. Link to the head and link to every saint that loves his name. If we got that clearly in our mind, and held with our both hands, It would deliver us from sectarianism of any kind. The body of ice. I thank God for every soul that has been born again. No matter what name he calls himself by, is he linked to Christ? Is he born again? Well, he's a member of that body, not only linked to the head, but linked to every other member of the body. And then the building. We get the building, of course, mentioned again in the epistle to the Ephesians chapter two. And in first Peter chapter two, we get it again. The foundation is Christ. The cornerstone on the top stone of the building is our blessed Lord himself. And every believer is a living stone in the building. First of all, the body and then the building and then the bride. I personally believe that the bride is the church of the present era. I think that Israel has a very close relationship to Jehovah as the divorce, but restored wife of Jehovah. That is the teaching both of the Old Testament and the new in connection with the nation of Israel. But as far as the bride, the pure, chaste, virgin bride, the lamb, I believe, is the church of the present dispensation. First of all, the body, then the bride, and then the building. So here, first of all, to get the person of Christ, then the church, and thirdly, the cross. Nine times, and I would recommend to each one here tonight to trace in the Gospel by Matthew from this point on, there are nine references to the cross. There's a development of teaching there concerning the griffoning work of the Savior upon Calvary's cross on the Gospel of Cardiff Matthew. It's a steady march from this point on to Golgotha. And then, finally, we get the coming. And that beautiful scene described in Matthew chapter seventeen, where Christ took his disciples up to naught, and his face did shine as the sun. His robes were white as the light. Overhead was the Shikai's light of glory, and the voice coming out of the cloud, the voice of God Father. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. And the three disciples fast asleep at the foot of this scene. When they wake up, Simon, Peter, always talking. Let's make three tabernacles, one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias. Immediately he was interrupted. God said, Look, this is my beloved son, and whom I will please hear ye him. Elijah on the one side, the man who didn't die, who was raptured, And on the other hand, Moses, the man who did die. But here he is in resurrection glory, there with the Lord upon the mountaintop, a beautiful prophetic picture of the kingdom in a coming day. So looking at this scene in the four revelations that we get here, we get a beautiful dispensational picture of what will happen in a coming day when Christ will be upon the throne. Again, our time is gone. I don't want to continue. But do continue to study Matthew's Gospel. It is the dispensational gospel and it is the connecting link between the great prophetical passage that we have been considering in the Old Testament and also the opening up and the literal fulfillment of the prophecies in the New Testament scriptures. We get it here in this beautiful Gospel. Now the Lord help us to understand it and also enjoy what God has for us. in the present disposition and also in the coming day for his name's day. I shall we pray. Our God and our Father began with worship and praise and thanksgiving in our hearts. We thank thee by word. We do thank thee for that blessed one that we've been speaking about tonight. Our Father, we thank thee for his written Bethlehem, for his incarnation, and for the credentials that were presented when he was born. Our Father, we thank thee too for that lowly life down here, that life of sympathy, that life of love and mercy to mankind. We thank thee for the invitations that he gave, and oh, it fills our hearts with sorrow. Think of the nation that were the custodians of the law, deliberately turning him aside, and responsible for his crucifixion upon Calvary's cross. Our Father, we thank thee too for the purposes of grace that thou hast not only for the church, but also for Israel in the coming day. We thank thee that there will be a restoration when they acknowledge their sin. But our Father, in the meantime, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And as we think of what is happening over in the Middle East and in the land today, we do thank thee, our Father, that thou art working out thine own purposes of grace. And all we do pray that very soon that time may come when Christ shall come and hush to rest the war and tragedy and bloodshed of this poor world. We commend us now to thee tonight. Lord, bless thy word and bless thy beloved people, we pray, in the worthy name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.