What Angels Cannot Experience — Zac Poonen

Salvation Desired by Prophets and Angels

I want to read a verse in 1 Peter, chapter 1. We looked at it last week. And it says here, Concerning this salvation, 1 Peter 1, verse 10, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful their searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating.

It's an amazing thing that Old Testament prophets were eagerly trying to understand this salvation that we experience so freely. And they longed for it. And in the message translation in the last part, it says here of this verse 12, angels would have given anything to be in on experiencing what we can experience today.

But it's not certain that every Christian experiences what we can experience. I believe one of the great regrets that people have who will go to heaven is that they did not fully take advantage of all that God had provided for them on earth.

They missed out on so much which could have been theirs. That they lived in spiritual poverty when they could have been rich. Because we didn't know what we had. We were ignorant. And we are ignorant partly because we don't spend time studying the scriptures carefully.

It's one of my great concerns for the new generation growing up in the world today is they are more familiar with what they see on television than in the Word of God. It's a great tragedy. I grew up as a young man in a world without television and I was very thankful.

Because I could spend my time with God's Word, get to know it and through it know God and possess my riches in Christ that has made my life so richly blessed. One of my prayers consistently has been, Lord when I get to heaven, I don't want to have any regret over the life I lived on earth.

I don't want to regret that I missed out on something that I could have experienced on earth and something that I could have done for you through that experience. Some way in which I could have blessed a few more thousand people than I did.

Lord, I don't want that regret in heaven. Show it to me now. If there's sin in my life which I'm ignorant of, show it to me now, Lord. Don't show it to me in heaven. It's too late. I want to be free from it now.

I would urge you to pray that prayer. Take life seriously. The coming of the Lord is near and we must be ready for His return. The angels would give anything. Think of this expression. The angels would give anything to be in on what we can experience.

The pro-testament prophets would have given anything to experience what we can experience. And yet, my personal testimony is that in my observation, 95 of the believers, 95 of the believers I have met in my life, their standard of life is below the standard of Old Testament prophets.

Sure. Can you imagine the Old Testament prophets fooling around with sex, watching internet pornography? Can you imagine the Old Testament prophets running after money? No. And yet, so many people who claim to have found something superior to the Old Covenant are living a life far below the Old Covenant because, see, when you become free from the law, the Old Covenant is law.

And of course, there's a lot of preaching about being free from the law. And I believe it myself. I'm free from the law. But the great danger is when you become free from the law, you come to a fork in the road.

You know what a fork in the road is? You're going along a straight road and then you come to a fork and you've got to choose which way to go. So, in our younger days, we have a conscience and we live under the law as children.

And even worldly people live under the law. And that's why there's some amount of law and order in the universe, in the world. But when you come to a fork in the road, you say, I'm free from the law. I'm free from the Old Covenant.

You can either enter into that road called grace. Very few people travel that road. Or another road, which is freedom for the flesh. So, from the Old Covenant, you go either into No Covenant or New Covenant.

And most people have gone into No Covenant. They're free from the law, sure. Why is their life worse than that of Old Testament people? Because they've taken the wrong turning. They've gone to No Covenant.

Why is the lives of so many Christians in this generation, growing up, worse than the lives of non-Christians who don't have a Bible, who don't know Jesus Christ? It's true. There are many non-Christian, people of non-Christian religions who have a greater fear of God and a greater sense of morality than many Christians.

The reason is, they've stepped out of Old Covenant into No Covenant. And if you're like that, my brother, sister, I want you to acknowledge it first. You know, the first step to all deliverance is acknowledgement.

God desires truth in the inward parts. He'll do anything for someone who acknowledges. And then comes to the Lord and says, Lord, I want to retrace my paths. I want to go to that place where I missed the road.

I want to enter the New Covenant. I've been living with No Covenant. I'm free from the law, free from the Old Covenant, but with No Covenant. So the angels would have given anything to experience what we can experience.

The New Covenant Life Above Old Testament Standards

You know, Jesus said that the people in the kingdom of God, which is another expression for New Covenant Christians, could experience a life which is higher than the greatest Old Testament man, John the Baptist.

Jesus said that in Matthew 11, verse 11 and 12. But how many Christians have you met who live like that? I mean, if an angel from heaven were looking at your life, would they say, boy, I wish I could live like that brother.

I wish I could live like that sister. Which angel would say that? Would Gabriel looking at your life say, boy, I wish I could live like that brother or sister. That's our calling. I want to live like that.

You see, we need revelation that God has become our father and that God loves us tremendously. I've thought about, you know, I've often said the greatest truth in the Bible is that God loves us as He loved Jesus.

But I've thought about what was the result of that. What was the result of that truth? It was this amazing thing that God became man. Now that sounds very simple, right? It's like telling you two plus two is four.

You say, oh, I know that. But I'll tell you this. I'm just discovering after 46 years of being a believer, some of the wonderful things that are the result of God becoming man. Even today, I saw something which really challenged me.

God Became Man to Give Humanity What Angels Cannot Experience

What does it mean that God became man? It meant that we could experience something that angels could not experience. That was not, why wasn't it possible for Old Testament people? Because God had not become man.

And Hebrews 2 is a great chapter dealing with this. I want to read some things from there. In Hebrews 2, it says, verse 5, God did not subject to angels the world to come. But He says, what is man? And someone has testified somewhere saying, I like this verse because it teaches us that if you know a Bible reference, it doesn't mean you're a holy man.

Here is an inspired New Testament writer who doesn't know what you and I know. That's from Psalm 8, man. Don't you know that? No, he doesn't know that. He says, somebody somewhere wrote this, inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Don't think Bible knowledge makes you holy. Even the devil could have told the writer of Hebrews that's Psalm 8. It's very important to know that because some people think that if they read the Bible and study it, they become holy.

A lot of rubbish. You've got to obey the Bible to become holy. So, someone testifies somewhere. What is man that you remember him, or the son of man that you're concerned about him? You have made him for a little while lower than the angels.

For a short period only. Lower than the angels. You know why? Because angels don't die. And we die. That's what makes us lower than the angels. Angels never die. God didn't make Adam like that. No. Adam was not supposed to die.

But when he sinned, he became a little lower than the angels. Because of death. But, you have crowned him with glory and honor and appointed him over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.

And when God put everything in subjection to Adam, He did not leave anything which is not subject. But we don't see around us in the world everything subject to us. We don't see wild animals obeying us, do we?

We don't have control over nature. We don't see the storms and the hurricanes obeying man. In fact, they work havoc. Destroy thousands of people and thousands of homes. Yet, one day, when God created man, He didn't create man to be a slave to hurricanes and cyclones and storms and tornadoes and wild animals.

No. All these things destroy men all over the world today. Man was supposed to be a ruler. But he lost everything because of one thing. Disobedience to God. Don't ever forget that. You can lose everything in life if you don't obey God's Word.

Everything. That's the lesson from Genesis 3. So what did God do? Here's the wonderful truth. And I pray, Lord, let me never lose the wonder of this, that God became a man like me. Not just any man. Not just some five-star type of man who was not like me.

No. One who came and lived in this slum called Earth, became like me. We can lose the wonder of that. And I want to say, brothers and sisters, never lose the wonder of it. It's one of the things I keep praying.

The Humility and Atonement of Christ

Lord, let me never lose the wonder of the truth that Jesus died for my sins. Let there always be a little, some tears in my heart when I think that Jesus died for me. That it must always be a new song for me.

That Christ shed His blood for a wretch like me. The amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how He could love me, a sinner condemned unclean.

The wonder of that. I never want to lose it. I haven't lost it today. Many a time when we sing that song, there are tears in my eyes when I think of Jesus died for me. It's never an old truth. It never will be.

And that Jesus became a man like me to bring me to where He is. Simple truth like 2 plus 2 is 4. I never want to lose the wonder of it. But, we see one person. You know, even though we don't see man ruling over everything, we see one man who lived on earth the way God wanted man to live.

Everything was subject to Him. The law of gravity was subject to Him. He could walk on water. You know why? How could a man like us walk on water? Because He was perfectly free from sin. You know what perfect freedom from sin can bring into your life?

None of us are like that. One day we will be. The law of gravity will be subject to us. Nothing, even the law of gravity will have no hold on me when I'm totally free from sin one day. I'll be able to fly.

I'll be able to go through walls because Jesus became a man. The Bible says in Mark chapter 1 that He was with the wild beasts. Do you know that Jesus was with the wild beasts during the wilderness 40 days?

He was not only in the desert. It's very clear in Mark 1 that He was with the wild beasts and they didn't harm Him. The tigers and lions wild in the wilderness, they couldn't touch Jesus. I mean, as we get closer and closer to likeness of Christ, we begin to experience a little bit of that ourselves.

Jesus said about how His servants when they go out to preach the gospel somewhere, poisonous snakes would bite them and they wouldn't be harmed. What's that? It's a little bit of the poor taste of that life.

Sadhu Sundar Singh says how there were times when He woke up from bed and found a poisonous snake was lying in the bed next to Him in that cold climate seeking the warmth of His blanket. Didn't touch Him.

And how He would pat tigers and leopards who came to Him. I mean, a man lived close to God. Even the animals recognized. This is not an ordinary man. Jesus experienced it in fullness. He could still a storm.

Stop, He said. And it stopped. Do you know that's how God wanted us to live? Do you see what a havoc sin has wrought in our life? Have you learned to hate sin? All the mess it has created. What we could have been?

Kings who should be kings, now we are slaves. Yeah, we see Jesus. He also, verse 9, was made for a little while lower than the angels because of the suffering of death. That's where we get the explanation.

What lower than the angels means. Lower than the angels because of death. Death made even Jesus, the Creator, took a place lower than the angels. Have you seen that? Have you seen the glory of the humility there?

If you want to understand that, I mean, many of us have the experience of having servants working in our home. Think if one day you sit down and wash the servant's feet or go to the servant's house and clean up the floor instead of her cleaning your floor, you go to her house and clean up her floor for her.

Boy, would you think that, oh, that's beneath my dignity. We haven't understood the way of Jesus, that's why. That's what Jesus did. We can talk about it, sing about it, and think we are praising and worshipping God.

But I tell you, your worship becomes meaningful when you've seen the real Jesus, this wonderful man, God who became man for us, who allowed himself to take a place lower than the angels he created for the suffering of death.

For what reason? Only that you and I may come into this wonderful life that the angels cannot have. And can you imagine his disappointment when we don't come into that life, when we live a substandard type of life way beneath what we are supposed to live and what we can live because of his blood shed on the cross and the gift of his Holy Spirit.

He's crowned with glory and honor today because by the grace of God he tasted death for everyone. Do you know that even Jesus could not go to death without the grace of God? The Bible says that the first human being who ever experienced the grace of God was Jesus.

And if you want to know what the grace of God can do for a person from childhood till death, look at Jesus. Because the word the grace of God is spoken first in relation to Jesus. Grace. Noah did not experience grace even though King James Version uses that.

The word is favor. He experienced favor. The Bible is very clear that the law came through Moses, John 1 .17 but grace came only through Jesus Christ. There was no grace in the world before that. So, it is grace that has made the difference between those Old Testament prophets and you and me.

It's grace which the angels cannot experience. Grace which the angels would give anything to be in on. See, it says about Jesus at his birth in Luke Chapter 2 the first, I don't know whether you know this.

This is the first place in the entire Bible where it says that the grace of God was upon a human being. Luke's Gospel Chapter 2 and verse 40. Luke's Gospel Chapter 2 verse 40. The first place in the whole Bible where it says the grace of God was upon a human being and that was Jesus.

I mean, people who haven't seen that Jesus became a man like us can't understand that. They think only Jesus gives grace. Sure, he gives us grace, but he received grace himself when he was on earth. That's how he lived an overcoming life and that's how we can live an overcoming life too.

Because he says my grace is sufficient for you. That means my grace is enough for you to handle anything that you face on earth. Can you say that? That's what grace grace makes us conquerors. More than conquerors.

The Old Testament people couldn't say that. They had so many complaints. Have you read of this wonderful man Job who was so good that even God could praise him to Satan. But he was Old Testament. Have you seen the things he complained against God?

God, why you do like this and why you do this to me and why you do this? Jeremiah complained to God like that. These prophets could not experience grace, but Jesus never did. Even when he suffered the worst possible thing that any created being can suffer.

Hell on the cross. Forsaken by his father. That's the meaning of hell. Being forsaken by the father. He experienced it on the cross. There was no spirit of rebellion in him. He couldn't understand it as a man.

And in his confused mind as a man, he said, my God, my God. Why have you forsaken me? As if saying, I can't understand this. But even if I can't understand it, you are still my God. And you will always be my God.

What a different way. That even when he is experiencing hell, he says, you are still my God. That will never change. You know, that's what grace can do to us in the deepest suffering. And nobody will ever suffer like Jesus did.

Don't ever let any of you think you are suffering a lot. That's one of the ways in which the devil destroys people. You know the number of believers who feel sorry for themselves? Who have self-pity.

Oh, this is the way somebody is treating me. Look at all the sicknesses I'm having. Look at all the problems I'm having. You let the devil put you on that merry-go-round of self-pity. And I tell you, in a million years, you won't come into the new covenant.

Get off that merry-go-round. Say like Jesus. You are still my God. That never changes. We can say more. You are my Father. There was only one time in life that Jesus ever called his Father God. It was on the cross.

He never called him God in all eternity. Once and only once in his entire life, he called him God. And that's when he took the punishment for your sin and mine. He was now not looking at a father, but he was looking at the judge of all the universe and taking the punishment for what he did not deserve.

But what you and I deserved. But even then, there would be no rebellion in him. It was grace. The grace of God, it says here, was upon this child and because of that, he increased in wisdom. Do you want to increase in wisdom?

Wisdom is different from knowledge. The most important thing we can get on earth is wisdom. Like Moses prayed in Psalm 90 verse 12. Lord, teach us to number our days so that by the end of our earthly life, we can have a heart full of wisdom.

I'm just paraphrasing his words. Psalm 90 verse 12. Lord, teach me to number my days. There are so few. I'm not going to get wisdom watching television. No, I'll tell you, you won't get any wisdom there.

You'll get a lot of provocation to sin. We need to know what's happening in the universe. Okay, we need to know facts and you read a little bit about that in the newspaper and maybe watch some news program on television to know that, but you're not going to get wisdom.

I mean, there are lots of things in the world you can spend your life pursuing. I'm talking about your spare time. I'm not talking about the necessary work you have to do. All of us have to work, say, eight hours a day, six by six days a week in order to earn our living.

That's necessary. Then you have to concentrate on your work. You can't do anything. Students have to study. Concentrate on their studies. There's no glory to God in failing in an examination saying I read the Bible.

There's no virtue there at all. But, once we finish doing the essential things of life, you can spend the rest of your time either seeking to acquire wisdom, and by acquiring wisdom, I don't mean just reading the Bible.

I think we acquire wisdom by reading the Bible, but also by walking with God. You know, to walk with God is the most pleasant experience any human being can have. Have you met certain people on Earth who is always a pleasure to be with?

It's great fun to be with some people. I mean, not filthy fun. The devil's got agents like that. I'm saying clean fun. It's good fun to be with some godly people who have a sense of humor and who just always talk about interesting things who never make you feel small, and it's such a pleasure, and you spend time with such people, and you never notice the minutes ticking away.

It's hours and hours and hours you can spend with such people, and it's wonderful. But I want to tell you that is 1 of what it is to walk with God. It's not boring walking with Jesus. Jesus is the most interesting person in the whole universe if you get to know him.

And we can talk to him anywhere. We can talk to him when we get up, first thing in the morning. That's what I do before I get out of bed. My eyes open. I talk to the Lord before I get out of bed. And if I wake up in the night, I have things to repent of every day.

I have many things to repent of every single day of my life because I have not become like Jesus yet, and I want to be like him. And I'm thankful that the Lord shows me areas, day by day, where I need to be a little more like him.

And it gets better as the days go by. But it's not only repentance. It's talking to him. It's enjoying life with him. Calling him dad. Sitting on his lap and talking to him like a little child. So that we can live on earth without fears and worries and anxieties.

That's what grace does to us. Old Testament prophets didn't have this. And we read here in Hebrews chapter 2 how that same grace that Jesus ended his life. He began with grace, and it says here, at the end of his life he tasted death also by grace.

So in Luke chapter 2 verse 40 and Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 you have two verses that teach us grace at the beginning and grace at the end of Jesus' life. And he had it all. He had experienced it as a human being.

And then it says, it's fitting for him who went through all this to bring many sons to glory. To make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. If Jesus could become perfect through suffering, do you think there's another better way for us?

Suffering, Wisdom, and the Error of the Health and Wealth Gospel

What a false gospel this is that says that the path to perfection is through material prosperity. There is a false gospel being preached today. Another gospel that many many people are receiving. In fact, most believers have started receiving it.

Particularly in the last 20 -25 years. The health and wealth gospel. That the most important thing in life is to be healthy and wealthy. In the old days they used to have a proverb, early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

They've left out the wise part of it now. It's just healthy and wealthy. I wish they'd be wise. Well, it's not early to bed and early to rise that makes a man wise. Wisdom came to Jesus through grace.

That's how we get grace. That's how we get wisdom. So Moses prayed Lord teach me to number my days and see how short they are. And help me to give myself to the things that will make me wise so that one day I can present to you a heart of wisdom.

Because that's why you placed me on earth. And it didn't matter if I wasn't healthy all my days on earth. That's not all going to be serious. In fact in sickness we learn a lot of things about God which you don't learn when you're sick, when you're healthy.

I'm sure. When you're lying in a hospital bed there's only one direction you can look. That is up. That's great. So we learn a lot of wisdom when we lie in a hospital bed. Which you don't acquire when you're running around the earth looking at many things here that attract us.

So even if we were not healthy all our lives, if we got wisdom and I'll tell you another thing. Poverty. I don't mean the abject poverty where we have to sleep on the streets and I don't have enough food to eat.

No. Jesus taught us to pray give us our day, our daily bread. It's right to pray for food and clothing having food and covering let us be content it says. Covering means clothing and shelter. Having food, clothing and shelter God provides that.

So I'm not talking about that abject poverty which a lot of people unfortunately face on earth. But I'm talking about people who don't have much of this world's goods. Do you know that they acquire a lot of wisdom?

I will say without any doubt at all that a poor man knows much better how to handle money than a rich man. I started my service for the Lord 40 years ago in great poverty from very very little money. Those were the days I learned to handle money carefully.

And that lesson has stuck with me through 40 years. It's not through prosperity that we get wisdom. Do you think the children of rich people who got plenty of money thrown at them by their parents who get everything that they want.

I remember one young person like that who told me I mean a very rich person's child told me that person was about I think 18 years old came here to study in Bangalore and said I have never walked any distance in my life always traveled by car from childhood.

Well you become fat that way you die early and you don't get much wisdom either. I learned a lot of things I learned a lot of things walking. I feel sad for such people. Don't envy such people who can always travel by car from childhood never learn to walk.

No, they have everything that this world can offer and you don't get wisdom but those who have to learn how to make their ends meet make their income fit their needs or needs fit within their income they acquire a lot of wisdom they discover a lot of things which other people think are absolutely necessary are not necessary.

Don't you believe all these advertisements that you see in the papers you can't live without this. You ask yourself how did man live for 6 ,000 years without this? That shows the advertisement is a lie.

You can live without many many things. And that's how a lot of people get into debt. Getting into debt is not wisdom. Isn't it sad that believers get into debt? See I praise the Lord and I'm 66 years old I've never had a credit card in my life I've never been in debt in my whole life.

I've been poor sometimes but never been in debt. And thankfully I got a wife who was also determined not to get into debt and would live simply along with me more simply than me. So, wisdom doesn't come through health and wealth I'll tell you that.

Comparing Scripture with Scripture: Christ’s Suffering and Human Weakness

It's wisdom that Jesus grew in. And Isaiah 53 seems to indicate that Jesus knew what it was to be sick. He experienced it because otherwise his education as a man would not have been complete. I believe Jesus had headaches sometimes.

It comforted me many years ago when I had a headache, severe headache. I said, Lord, did you ever experience this in your life what I'm going through right now? And I got revelation that he did. Let me show you that verse.

Isaiah 53. Some of these Old Testament Hebrew words are sometimes translated slightly differently. I want to read verse 4 first. Surely our griefs he bore and our sorrows he carried. The word for grief there in the Hebrew is sickness.

How do we know that? Compare scripture with scripture. Matthew chapter 8 verse 17. This verse is quoted as He took our infirmities and carried our diseases. So, He took our infirmities, Matthew 8, 17 and carried away our diseases.

In Isaiah 53 verse 4, the Hebrew is translated slightly differently. Maybe people couldn't translate it the way it should be. Our griefs he bore and our sorrows he carried. So, according to the New Testament, what it should read is grief and sorrow is referring to sickness and infirmity.

Okay? Now we go to verse 3. Jesus was despised and forsaken and he was acquainted with sickness and infirmity. Got it? So, don't go saying Brezak was preaching some strange doctrine here in the church today.

It's from scripture. Maybe you didn't see it, but it's there. And you probably didn't see it because most Christians are too lazy to compare scripture with scripture. When they read a New Testament reference to the Old Testament, they don't go to the Old Testament to see what's written there.

Thereby they miss something. We miss a lot when we don't study scripture carefully and in depth. There are many things hidden in scripture because God wants to see who is wholehearted enough to go searching for it.

I have never regretted the decision I took nearly 40 years ago, 45 years ago, to study the Bible thoroughly. It changed my life. It opened my eyes to see the New Covenant. So, grace is something that enables us to get wisdom.

The angels don't have it. What are the things which the angels have? See, for example, I think we had a wonderful time of praise and thanksgiving this morning. But do you think we did it better than the angels in heaven?

Any of you crazy enough to think that? No. We don't come anywhere near the angels. It's like thunder there when they praise the Lord. I think if angels came here, this roof would blow up. Concrete or anything.

It will just blow up. Those angels really need to know how to praise God. They don't feel shy. Oh, I don't feel like opening my mouth. They are not like that. It's a shame that Christians don't open their mouth to praise the Lord.

Angelic Holiness, Praise, and Immediate Obedience

We open our mouth wide when criticizing somebody. Oh, did you hear about that? Gossip, gossip, gossip, gossip. Why don't we open our mouth to praise the Lord, which is a more important thing, and shut our mouth to all those other criticisms and gossip.

We really need to learn. The angels know how to praise God. They know how to thank the Lord. They know how to shake the place with their praise. And they haven't experienced our salvation. Imagine if they did, how they would praise the Lord.

So, praise is not something that angels can't do. So, don't glory in the fact, boy, we had a wonderful time of praise this morning. We must be wonderful saints. No, sir. You are not better than the angels.

They can do it better than you. What about an understanding of God's holiness? I think the angels have such a fantastic understanding of God's holiness. Way beyond me. Way beyond me. In fact, Isaiah, once when he saw the angels in heaven, covering their face, covering their feet, and worshipping and praising God, he said, Oh God, I'm an unclean man.

He was the holiest man on earth. And he felt he was an unclean man. That's what happens when you get to see the glory of heaven and the holiness of God. You won't be spending so much time thinking other people are sinners.

You'll be seeing what a sinner you are. So, the angels have certain things angels have, which unfortunately, even we don't have. Which we can. They know how to praise. They know how to thank the Lord.

They have a tremendous sense of holiness and they are instant in their obedience. That's another thing. That's why Jesus taught us to pray, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. See, that's one thing Jesus said.

You can learn something from the angels. See how they do my Father's will in heaven. In the Lord's prayer, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Which means, how do they do it in heaven? You see, when God tells Abrael, Now I want you to go down to Nazareth and speak to somebody there with a message.

Gabriel doesn't say, Hang on Lord, just 10 minutes, I'll go and finish this work and I'll come. He doesn't say that. He may be doing the most important thing in heaven. He drops it and says, Yes Lord.

Imagine, just imagine my brothers and sisters, if your response to the commands of God became like that, where you would have been today spiritually? From the time you were born again, every time you read something in scripture, you did it like the angels in heaven did it, dropped everything and said, God, I'm going to do that.

Where you would have been today, you would have been miles and miles and miles ahead of where you are. We can't do anything about the past, but are you going to do something about the future? Are you going to pray that little prayer?

Father, Thy will be done in my life, from today onwards, as the angels do it in heaven. You can make a new beginning. It's a wonderful message of the gospel. So, as I said, there are many things in which the angels excel us a hundred times better.

The Joy of Forgiveness and the Call to Love Much

But, here are some things that the angels can't experience or excel us in. One, no angel knows the joy of sins forgiven. It's a fantastic joy. Imagine a dirty beggar who's never had a bath in 30 years.