Cherubims： A Type of the Redeemed — Keith Malcomson

Cherubims as a Type of the Redeemed

I want you to turn in your Bibles to Ezekiel chapter one. A good way to find Ezekiel is to find Isaiah, Jeremiah, and I know lamentation goes in there, but then you have Ezekiel. That's a good way to find it.

We're gonna start on a new series here this morning. I definitely don't know how long it is going to last for. At the minute, I've got five messages, and you know it's a bit like dough. It keeps growing, these sermon series, at time.

So I don't know where this goes. I don't direct sermons. I don't decide. I pray, I listen, I wait on God, and then I try to do the will of God. But we are gonna turn to Ezekiel chapter one at the beginning of this new series.

I've called this a certain title, a series, and I just wanna say I preached on this Ezekiel one twice before. I preached on it 18 years ago, twice. Once in a certain service, it was the first time I ever preached on it.

Then later, I preached twice on it in a different church, 18 years ago. 18 years ago, when I had this message from the Lord, it was New Year's Day, or it was the 2nd of January. I think it was just after.

It was the New Year's weekend, 2005, and I got in my car. I'm gonna drive 30 minutes to preach it to a church. I'm invited to preach. And that church, through meetings we'd been having over a short period of time, a move of God came to that church.

But I didn't know the pastor in charge of that church is about to kill the move of God. I didn't know that. I didn't know what was gonna happen over the next several months. So I get in my car, utterly oblivious.

I've got a word of God. It's an encouraging message. And I begin to drive to church. And as I left my mother's house, I was praising God and singing in the car. I'm very happy in my soul. And as I drove closer to Belfast, 30 minutes, I began to get heavy and began to sorrow and a great burden came on me.

Then I began to grieve deeply in my heart, like for someone dead. And I wanna tell you, I know what I'm saying. I can only identify what I felt in the past two months to that time concerning the church.

And as I drove into the church, I am broken. I'm suffocating. I don't know what, I go, what's happened in 30 minutes? I don't understand. Since we need to get sensitivity to the Holy Spirit again, back in the church, in the pulpit, in every area of our church life, evangelism, in the worship, the burden of God, the guidance of God, we've gotta get it back in the church again.

We've lost it. We grieved the Holy Spirit away. And you know what? I parked the car, walked into the prayer meeting. I can't even pray. I am there. I wanna burst out crying. I walked into the church and they began to sing the first song.

I forced myself to stand, to sing with joy, to clap my hands. I barely made it to the end of the first song and I fell on my knees, turned around at my seat and I began to weep and weep and weep. I don't know what's going on.

And for 30 minutes, they worship God with their happy songs while I am broken. I don't know what's going on. My spirit is utterly grieving and sorrowful. And I went, I'm gonna preach. They had the Lord's table.

I barely managed to sit in the seat to break bread, barely. And I went, how am I gonna preach this morning? I went, I felt like I'm gonna prophesy. It was New Year's Sunday. And you know what? Preachers from that city had gathered.

There were more preachers than normal there. And I knew God had them there. And I went, I can't even begin preaching until I deliver a real word from the Lord direct to those men. I didn't know what was gonna happen several months later that they would destroy and kill a move of God.

You'll be very glad that isn't the spirit I'm coming here this morning with that. But I want you to be aware, we're dealing with spiritual things, spiritual movements. I don't play games with this. I am a servant of God.

I don't tell him what I'm gonna preach. I want the mind of God. We as a church, we want God to move in our midst. And if he begins moving like I believe he wants to move, God help us if we hinder that or are ignorant of what God is doing or kill it at that hour.

You'll never recover from that. You only get one chance usually. God help us. And so I'm coming. What I preached 18 years ago, it's more refined now, more substance now. It'll be more clear, but it won't have any more unction.

I wish I had the unction of that day. It was unusual. And so we're gonna, this is the title. Did I give you the title yet? No, I didn't. The title of my new series in this part one. And there's only one person online that's gonna remember this message, only one that I know of.

It's called the Four Seasons of Life. What I put in one message, I'm gonna at least put into five messages and I'm barely scraping this or touching it. The Four Seasons of Life. And you're gonna understand where I'm going.

The Four Seasons of Life and the Cherubim Vision

Part one, this is my message this morning. Very unusual title. Cherubims, a type of the redeemed. I'm going to take you to Ezekiel chapter one and show you nine things about cherubims. Most of you don't know what a cherubim is.

Or you think of a cherub, a little tubby, small angel. That's got nothing to do with what I'm gonna deal with. I'm gonna show you. But cherubims are very prominent in this chapter and I'm gonna show you nine things about cherubims that are a message for what a Christian ought to be.

You wanna know what a real Christian is? I'll tell you this morning. Anything else is way off God's scale and scope. It doesn't even get in. This is the real. Let's read together Ezekiel chapter one, verse four.

And I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself. And a brightness was about it. And out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire, also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.

And this was their appearance. They had the likeness of a man and everyone had four faces. Everyone had four wings. Feet were straight feet and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot.

And they sparkled like the color of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. And they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another and they turned not when they went.

They went every one straight forward. As for the likeness of their face, they four had the face of a man, the face of a lion on the right side and they four had the face of an ox on the left side. They four also had the face of the eagle.

Four faces. That's why I've called this the four seasons of life. Thus were their faces and their wings were stretched upward. Two wings of every one was joined one to another and two covered their bodies.

And they went every one straight forward. Whether the spirit was to go, they went. And they turned not when they went. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire and like the appearance of lamps.

It went up and down among the living creatures and the fire was bright. And out of the fire went forth lightnings and the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. Let's pray together.

Father, we thank you, God, that we're not dealing with man or religion or churchianity or custom or any other thing. We're dealing with a living God, a God of fire, a God of flame, a God who is a spirit, a God who is eternal, a God who created all things, a God who is everlasting in nature, a God who is loving and kind and gracious, a God of wrath, a God of judgment, a God who is real, a God who speaks, a God who changes, a God who touches our life, a God who even comes to indwell us and inhabit us, a God who comes and walks in the midst of the aisles of the church.

And oh God, I pray. Lord God, will you save, will you sanctify, will you heal, will you deliver, will you change? Lord God, will you allow your voice to be heard amidst the wings of these cherubims? Lord God, we're praying, oh God.

Lord God, stir us with a heavenly vision. Stir us, oh God, with knowing your desire. Oh God, let your Holy Spirit come on individuals in this room. Lord God, the like of which they have never experienced before, the dealings of the real Holy Spirit.

Lord God, to feel your heart, to feel your power, to know the intents of your mind. In Jesus' mighty name. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. And so my message, part one here. Cherubims, a type of the redeemed.

These creatures that we have just read about in Ezekiel chapter one are cherubims. And Ezekiel one, it doesn't say they're cherubims. It calls them living creatures. But if you went over to Ezekiel chapter 10 and 15, listen to what Ezekiel writes.

And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creatures that I saw by the river Jabar. Jabar. Then in verse 20, he says, this is the living creation that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Jabar.

And I knew that they were the cherubim. So what he saw in chapter one, he says in chapter 10, I knew these were cherubim. These living creatures that I saw, he calls them cherubims. You know, in the Bible, you have much talk of angels, hundreds, thousands, hundreds, millions of angels.

A few of them, we get their name. Angels don't have wings. Seraphims have wings, cherubims have wings. And in the Bible, we only read of four cherubims in the entire Bible distinctly. We never see more than four together at a time.

But angels are distinct from cherubims. Cherubims are an angelic creature. And you're gonna see it here in Ezekiel chapter one, from verse four to verse 14, we're gonna deal with these cherubims. You've got a remarkable picture of these cherubims.

Then after those verses, from verses 15 to 25, listen to what else you have. Not only a vision of these four cherubims, but from verse 15 to the end of the chapter, you have a vision of the chariots of the cherubims or the throne chariots of God.

Do you know there's chariots of fire? The Bible talks about. The Bible talks about the cherubim riding on chariots. This is a very, very real thing that we're looking at here. We actually see here something very real.

And I believe as we look at these cherubims, they are real creatures. They are angelic creatures. They are supernatural creatures that worship in the presence of God, that abide in his glory. Can you imagine abiding in the glory?

Do you know why there's so little reality in the church? It's because there's very little glory. You know, when someone has the glory upon them, there's weeping and brokenness and a sensitivity. Show me a Christian, no sensitivity.

There's no glory. They have no awareness of the moving of God or the voice of the spirit of God. They're utterly oblivious and they're trying to live their Christian life. That's horrendous. That is not the will of God.

Listen to what Jesus says. You might say, why use cherubims to preach? Why do that? Well, Jesus done it. In Matthew chapter 22, Jesus was asked a question about the resurrection. Seven brothers, a silly parable, a story to catch him out.

About seven brothers, Dan, sorry. Yeah, the seven brothers marrying the same lady, they each kept Dan. Whose wife will she be in the resurrection? They're trying to catch him out. Religious people play silly religious games with their words.

You don't wanna do that. If it gets in your spirit, it'll destroy you. Listen to what Jesus said. Matthew 22, 30. For in the resurrection, talking about the angels, they neither, sorry, talking about men, redeemed men who die, they neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Sorry, ladies. But are as the angels of God in heaven, so when Jesus tries to explain what we are gonna be like in the future state, what does he do? He said, it's like being like the angels. Let me show you what the angels are like because I wanna show you how we're gonna live.

Do you know what I'm gonna do here in nine points? I want you to see the cherubims. Cherubims are real creatures. They're in the presence of God right now. They're real. But I wanna use them as a picture so you can understand these nine things about a real Christian because Jesus uses them as an example.

Or look at Ezekiel here in chapter one, verse five. It says, and this was their appearance. What did the cherubims look like? What was their appearance to the human eye? They had the likeness of a man.

So the cherubims, when you look at them, they are like the man. They're definitely like men. There's certain things about these cherubim. They've got wings, they've got strange faces, they've got strange feet.

And yet when you look at them, they definitely, you can see a man in these cherubims. So Jesus used the angels in heaven to teach you. Also here, we see the cherubims. When you look, you see a man. And I want to show you the man, a Christian in the cherubims.

They have the appearance of a man when you look at them. Yet there's many strange things that are hard to describe and to define. In this chapter, Ezekiel one, we read the word appearance. It talks about their appearance.

That word is used 15 times. It talks about their likeness 10 times. So look at this, 25 times in a few verses, it talks about their appearance, their likeness. When you look at them, what do you see? This is very important.

He uses two different Hebrew words, appearance and likeness, so you understand. The shape of them, the form of them, how they appear. This is very important. He has a message for you. God doesn't waste anything.

If he shows us a vision of the cherubims, there is a message for you. It's not just some spiritual thing out there. There's something for you to learn and understand and to hear from God himself. So look at these four creatures.

They're called four beasts or four living creatures. Do you know what they represent? And this is for our series. I'm really gonna start getting into this next week. I'm only laying a foundation here this morning.

The Four Seasons of Christian Life

The four beasts represent four different, distinct, totally different seasons of life. This is my series. Winter, spring, summer, and autumn. God has set the seasons in our world. He has absolute sovereignty.

He has a purpose. Why did God give four seasons in creation? And even with all that man has done, we still have four semi-distinct seasons these days. They are clear, they are there. Four seasons, God set them in place.

You know why? Each season has a different purpose. You may like to stay in summer. It would destroy you and destroy our country. You may like winter. You don't wanna stay there always or we're gonna have serious problems in our culture.

So God has a purpose. Notice as well with these four creatures, in verse six, there's four faces. There's the lion, there's the ox or a calf, man and eagle, four different faces representing four different seasons of life.

And we're gonna deal with them in the four coming weeks, one for each of these. But here, I wanna bring you to these cherubims of a type in Christian, a born again Christian, someone who really knows God.

I mean a real Christian, not a wannabe, not a duck that's barking, not strange creatures of the night. I'm talking about a Christian who's a real Christian. Let's define it. There's nine things here I wanna give you about these creatures.

Spiritual Life as the Mark of a True Christian

Number one, they're called living creatures. These cherubims, this is the mark of them. And this is what the Bible wants to emphasize. When you look at these cherubims, they're living creatures. Some people call themselves Christians.

When I look at them, they're dead. Their faith is dead. There's no good works. There's no obedience, no holiness. You know what? They claim it, they have head knowledge, they have testimonies, but they're dead.

When I look at them, they're spiritual death, not when you look at a cherubim. I assure you, you're not gonna think a cherubim if it appeared to you tonight or this morning. You will be scared out of your wits.

You're gonna go, I just encountered a living creature. There's nothing dead about it. It's moving, speaking, active. It's alive. Are you alive? Are you spiritually alive? Are you dead in your sin? If you're dead in your sin, you can't even live this Christian life.

You can't even know this God. You can play religion, but you do not know this God. The first thing about them is they're living creatures and a Christian is a living creature, I wanna tell you. In Ezekiel 1, verse five, it calls them, out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.

This was their appearance and they had a likeness of a man. I'm looking for Christian men and women who have the appearance of life. When you look at them, you see life, spiritual life, real life. The word used there for living creatures, it means to be alive, to be alive.

It means to be fresh. You're not old. Some Christians are worn out. Oh, it's been so hard, so long. I'm so weary. I'm barely gonna make it. You used to have life. Where is the life? You see, when I look at these cherubims, it's not only that they were alive, they are alive.

They are fresh. This life is fresh. Is your spiritual life fresh or is it grown stale and dead? These cherubims have a message for you. You're to be alive this morning, Christian. You're born again, washed in the blood, forgiven.

Christ liveth in you. You should be alive, alive in Christ Jesus, alive unto God. It's a terrible testimony when we see a Christian who is dead. Their testimony is dead. No life, nothing to speak about.

When after church, you get a bunch, and most churches, and thank God we never allowed it here, you get a bunch of Christians after service, you close the service, I mean, gee, they're talking about sport.

You know why? They're dead. They'll talk about everything. They can talk an hour about anything. Suddenly you bring it on to spiritual subjects. They're silent. They've got nothing to say. No personal testimony.

What'd Jesus do in your life this week? Don't know. What did God speak to you this morning when you were alone with Him, preparing to come into the house of God? What did He speak to you? What did He speak to you this week?

What did He deal with in your heart? Oh, I don't know. Then your God is dead. I'm gonna tell you, these cherubims are a burning flame of fire. They have a voice. They have movement. They have purpose.

And not only means to be alive and to be fresh, it also means to be strong. That's what life is. You have a strength within you. It is very vibrant, very real. It says in Revelation 4 and 6, speaking about these four creatures again, and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes, but four and behind.

When you go over to Revelation, see you find them at the gate of Eden when man is put out of Eden, two cherubims are put there with a flaming sword to stop man going in there. When you get to Ezekiel, you see them.

When you go through the Bible to Revelation and you see the throne of God, you see these four same beasts there in the presence of God. And you know what? They are alive. In Revelation chapter four, they're called four beasts, which is four living creatures.

The word beast there for cherubims is different than the beast talking about Antichrist or the man of sin, the beast that rises up out of the sea or the beast that rises up out of the land. That is a ferocious animal.

But the word beast used for these creatures means something alive. It is burning with spiritual life. So you've got to make sure that you draw a distinction. It says in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, a new creature.

You don't learn Christianity. You don't get educated into it. You don't ease your way in. You become a new creature through being born again. Have you been born again? Are you in your sin? You know, some people go, today I live for Christ, tomorrow for the world.

Today I'm a Christian. Saturday night I live for the devil. Then Monday morning, I'm back in the world. You're confused. You can't be that. If any man is in Christ, he's a new creature. I am not that old person.

I am not the sinner I used to be. I'm not the blasphemer, I'm the liar. I'm not the rebel against God. I am a new creature, an entire new creature. You know what you are? You're a living creature. I know a Christian when I meet them.

And I know someone who likes to think of himself as a Christian and they're not. The mark of them is real spiritual life. There's a new nature, a new desire. There's a different person. They're not acting and thinking and doing like a sinner.

If you quack, waddle, flutter around, you're a duck. A lion doesn't waddle around quacking. I want to tell you, I've never seen a lion quack. Never in my entire life. It's utterly impossible. And you know what?

A Christian without a new nature and without life, it is utterly impossible. If you're in Christ, you are a new creature. All things have passed away. Behold, all things are become new. The drunken state has gone.

The drugs have gone. The immorality has gone. Oh, you're not perfect. No one is. I'm dealing with issues in my heart, I want to tell you. But you can't be lion drunk and call yourself a Christian. That's utterly impossible.

This is the first mark of the cherubims. They're living creatures. So is a real Christian. You're either alive or you're dead. There's no in between. Are you alive in Christ or are you dead? If I saw a cherubim, I'm going to get scared.

I go, I saw something alive, vibrant. It's living. I'm not confused over it. When you meet a Christian, I know their spiritual life. They want to talk about the Lord. They want to seek after the Lord.

They're inquiring after the Lord. Number two, found at the throne of God. It says over in Revelation, I'm going to go back and forth between Ezekiel one and Revelation, because Revelation four, five, six talks about these same creatures, cherubims.

Life Centered on the Throne of God

Revelation four and six. And before the throne, there was a sea of glass like on the crystal. And in the midst of the throne or right at the heart of the throne or in the middle of the throne and round about the throne, there were four beasts.

Notice where you see these four beasts, right at the heart of the throne of God. They are familiar. They want to be central at the throne of God. This is where they live. They dwell. They abide. This is their home.

This is where they're familiar with. It's not a place they go to once in a year. It's not a place that they're bored standing around. You can't do that at the throne of God. These creatures, these living creatures are right in the midst of the throne and round about the throne.

They're gathered there. You know what? The throne is the center. Not them, not their ministry. Not anything about them. Not their needs. As they gather together, they surround the throne of God. It's all about God's throne.

That is their entire focus. You know what this represents? Kingdom life or a life of prayer. They are in the presence of God. They desire to be in the presence of God. A Christian who doesn't desire. I'm not talking about being in church or singing songs.

You desire to be in the presence of God. We could have a meeting and not have the presence of God. You could sit in church. Two people, two Christians in church. One of them's met with God this morning.

The other one hasn't. I wonder why. One gets touched of God. The other doesn't. One gets filled with the spirit. The other one doesn't. I wonder why. It's because someone pressed into the presence of God.

They're in the same building. Are you familiar with the throne of God? Is the throne of God in your Christian life what is central? Or do you think God's throne is there to serve you? That God's throne surrounds you?

That God is gonna focus on your life? All you are is a person, a Christian, saved by the grace of God. You know what? Your entire focus ought to be the throne of God. It is the place of prayer. Listen to what it says in Hebrews 4, 16.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace and help to help us in time of need. Are you in trouble? Do you need help? Do you need God's grace? Are you facing temptation?

Are you going through trials? Are you discouraged? Do you feel like your heart's getting cold? When's the last time you went to the throne of grace? When's the last time you pushed everything aside and for one hour, you got in a room, no mobile, no Facebook, no FaceChat, no checking your phone every five minutes, and you locked the door, you left your...

This would be a nightmare for some people. You know what? You could be... You know like you'll get a heroin addict or a weed addict or a food addict? Now, for the first generation, we've got mobile online addicts.

Do you know how I know if you're an addict or not? You can't help yourself. You keep looking, checking. Nobody's messaged you in five minutes. Just checking. Check a month. They might have. Five minutes later, check.

Uh-oh. Some addicts look on your faces. Better watch it. Can't even pray. You're more familiar with your online presence, which centers around you than the throne of God. That's dangerous. Alarm bells.

No wonder you don't have grace of God. You know why? You've got to go to the throne of grace to find mercy and grace in time of trouble to help you. And you're there going, I'm struggling in my Christian life.

I wonder why. When's the last time you fasted for three days? When's the last time you locked yourself in a prayer? I'm gonna pray for an hour. That would kill some people. You know what? You're an addict.

You're utterly distracted. These cherubims live there. The throne is at the center. They abide around the throne of God. In Hebrews 12, verse two, it says, but ye as a Christian are come to Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.

You don't go there physically. You don't see it with your eyes, but it's talking about prayer. As you approach God, you come to the new Jerusalem. When's the last time you were at the new Jerusalem? I hope you were during this meeting.

I hope you were this morning. Have you come right into the presence of God through the blood of Jesus, a blood-sprinkled way? Have you come into the new Jerusalem? Where, and listen to what it says, where there is an innumerable company of angels.

You may say, I've never seen an angel. Neither have I. Only in my dreams, when God sent a message to me. But you can literally enter into a place spiritually where there are so many angels, you couldn't count them if you've seen them with your eye, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn.

I belong to this church. Make sure you're a member of this church, not LCC. You could end up in hell from LCC. But there's a church you come onto at the throne of God. Only those that abide at the throne of God, who are familiar with God in prayer, are members of this church.

It's the church of the firstborn. You're born again. You're in Christ Jesus. Are you a member of that church? Some people aren't even members of churches down here. God help them. They're so confused.

And to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, third of all, these cherubim are full of eyes. It says in chapter Revelation four and eight, and the four beasts were full of eyes within them. Wonder what that symbolizes.

They are filled with, are you filled with eyes? These creatures were filled with eyes, not outwardly, inside, they were filled with eyes. What point is there in having eyes filling you inside? Again, in Ezekiel one, verse 18, it talks about that they were full of eyes round about the four of them.

So not only in them, inside them were they filled with eyes, but in around the four of them, they are surrounded with eyes, both of these things. What do eyes represent in the Bible? What are they symbolic of?

According to Zechariah chapter four and verse 10, eyes represent the spirit. When it talks about the seven eyes, it means the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And so here, these living creatures, they are filled with eyes.

They have eyes in around them. You know what it's talking about? Being full of the Holy Spirit of God. When you go to the Bible, all you find constantly with the early church, the preachers, the deacons, the members, the leaders, they're all filled with the Holy Spirit.

Not that they once got filled back there. They're full of the Holy Ghost. One filling of the Holy Ghost is never enough. Remember on the day of Pentecost, 120 men, women, it was the first church. It was made up of young children, older believers, some preachers, some who were very fragile, very weak, not called to ministry.

They worked in the fields. An entire church in one day in Acts chapter two were filled with the Holy Ghost. Where are the spirit-filled churches in these days? Where every member is filled with the spirit.

You could be here and say, oh, it's okay for Keith. It's okay for someone else. It was okay for Candace Malcolmson. She was filled with the spirit. Why do you think she'd done some of the things she'd done?

It came out of being filled. You see, if you're not filled, it's gonna come out of your mind, your intellect, your thought process, your knowledge, and it'll stink. It'll actually have a ding, because there's no spirit.

It's just going through the motions. You know what? You need to be filled with the spirit. There's times where I know the spirit of God comes. I don't even know what's gonna happen next. I don't know what's gonna get said next.

I know that the spirit of God is here. The early church was filled with the Holy Spirit. In Acts chapter six, "'Choose you out seven men, set them aside.'". Why? "'Hand out bread to the widows.'". We don't want bickering and fighting.

Jimmy, it's your job. You're gonna feed the widows. What's the qualification? Smart aleck talk? A bit of banter with the ladies? No, you've gotta be full. Oh yes, it was on the day of Pentecost. Oh no, you better be full now.

Are you full of the Holy Ghost? When's the last time you were filled with the Holy Spirit of God? Are you excusing yourself saying, oh, it's not for me. God hasn't chosen to fill me yet. Your theology's really messed up.

You didn't get it in the Bible. You see, these cherubim are full of eyes. So is the real church. It is full of eyes. It is filled with the Holy Spirit. We need a moving of the Holy Spirit. Look at Barnabas, a man full of the Holy Ghost.

Look at Peter, a man full of the Holy Ghost. Look at Paul, a man full of the Holy Ghost. If you begin to follow that term in the book of Acts, every time you find someone full of the Holy Ghost, something happens.

God speaks, someone gets saved. Someone actually does the will of God. Someone gets stoned. You know, you need to be filled with the Holy Ghost to get stoned and left on the highway dead. Takes the power of the Holy Ghost.

The Heavenly Life and the Meaning of the Cherubim’s Wings

Fourth of all, these cherubims have wings. What do the wings represent? Ezekiel 1, verse six. And everyone had four faces and everyone had four wings. Each cherubim had four wings. Not only four faces, four wings.

Chapter one, verse eight. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. In Ezekiel 10, 21, everyone had four faces apiece and everyone had four wings. And the likeness of the hands of a man were under the wings.

Now, what do the four wings of a cherubim represent? For you, what's it saying to you here this morning? The wings represent, remember what wings do. It's gonna lift you off the earth. You walk with two legs on the earth.

You're earthbound, unless you get in a plane, jump off a cliff, be in a hand glider or some other crazy thing. Do you know what it represents? The heavenly life. When you have four wings, you're not earthbound anymore.

You're not fixed on this earth. And notice these four wings, they began to ascend into the presence of God. These wings represent Christians who can ascend into the presence of God. They are not earthbound.

It's talking about a heavenly life. Is the life you're living, is it very carnal, very worldly, very natural, very unsatisfying, very religious, very traditionally bound? Are you living out a heavenly life?

I wanna see your four wings today. You see, if you've got four wings, you are not bound by this earth. You know what this world says? You're just a man. You can't get free of sin. You can't get free of lust.