Lost Dimension in Christian Living — Leonard Ravenhill

Thank you. Preachers usually put their watches on the desk and when brother John Garlock is teaching over our way he repeatedly looks at his watch while he's talking. But when I'm preaching people keep looking at their watches.

I put my watch down on the podium in a large tent in Ireland a few years ago and while I was preaching I hit the watch and it went down in the sawdust and it took a fence. It wouldn't go. So the next night I said to a farmer would you kindly loan me your watch.

Big husky Irishman reached up gave me his huge watch and he said Len you don't need a watch you need a calendar. Normally I consider myself an evangelist rather than a teacher but tonight I felt the Lord wanted me to share some thoughts more in the line of teaching.

Worship as the Lost Dimension of Christian Living

Normally I wait between three and four in the morning. I have a quiet time usually make some notes and this morning I made a note of the title for this message tonight. The title is a lost dimension in Christian living and to condense it to one word is the thing that you were singing so beautifully a few minutes ago worship.

Normally we stand to sing we kneel to pray but we prostrate ourselves to worship. Very often I go to meetings and someone says everybody stand or raise your hands and let's worship. I don't accept that as worship I think that's praise and praise is the prelude to true worship.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God himself. I've read and read and reread that 17th chapter of John I suppose thousands of times in my life and I remember the day when I discovered the natural divisions in the chapter verses 1 to 5 Jesus prays for himself.

Verses 6 to 19 he prays for his disciples. Verses 20 to 26 he prays for the world. But recently I revised that idea because in the very first verse he says the supreme desire and he's praying just about a week before he went to the cross and it seems to me that the whole of the 26 verses are for the disciples and he says this one thing that they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

I wonder if he were put on the spot how many of us would actually dare to say that we know God on a personal level. All right the story I want to read part of it tonight is not very exciting not in the framework of jets flying over us and computers all around us and men walking on the clouds without being tethered to a machine and other men walking on the bottom of the ocean.

It's a very undramatic story. Often preachers refer to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as the four gospels. Well if we had four gospels we'd need four Christ's. There are not four gospels there are four there's only one gospel told by four different men and yet the story that I want to read is told by each of these as we will call them evangelists.

The Sinful Woman's Costly Worship

Taking the story from the Luke chapter 7 and verse 36. One of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him and he went into the Pharisee's house and sat down to meet and behold a woman in the city who was a sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at meeting a Pharisee's house brought an alabaster box of ointment.

She stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and he'd wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it he said within himself if this man were a prophet he would know what manner of woman this is that touches him for she is a sinner.

Jesus answering said unto him Simon I've somewhat to say unto thee and he said master say on. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors one owed him 500 pence and the other 50 and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both.

Tell me therefore which of them would love him most and he said I suppose he to whom he forgave most. Jesus said unto him Simon pardon me and when he had nothing to say he frankly forgave them both tell me therefore which of them would love him most.

Simon answered and said I suppose that he who was forgiven most and he said in essence this is why the woman loves me because she's been forgiven most. It took me about 50 years to find out what this story was all about.

I read sermons I heard sermons and preachers seized on one particular part of the story. One man I remember went on preaching about the different Marys in the bible how many there were. Somebody tried to value the box of ointment that she put on his feet and so forth and so on.

But I discovered a very satisfactory answer as far as I'm concerned about the woman. She went to see Jesus specifically for one thing not to see the guest not to shake hands with the host not even to get a close-up view of Jesus.

She went to worship him. You say how do you know? I know for two reasons. Number one she took the costliest thing that she had and number two she never said a word. I said prayer is preoccupation with our needs.

Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. True worship I believe is complete silence captivated by the majesty and the glory of God himself. There's a poem I haven't I like to point I haven't memorized this but the writer is right on as far as I'm concerned.

He said my goal is God himself not joy not peace not even blessing but himself my God. It is his to lead me there not mine but his at any cost dear lord by any road. One thing I know I cannot say him nay one thing I do I press toward my lord my God my glory here from day to day and in the glory there my great reward.

John the Baptist and the Historical Setting of Jesus' Ministry

It's necessary to put this story in the in the framework of the day in which it happened. I guess we need to go back and remember between and Matthew you have a period of 400 years of darkness without any prophetic light and then just like Haley's comet streaked across the sky there comes a very difficult man by the name of John Baptist.

I love to tell the Baptist that the first man who preached the baptism of the spirit was not a Pentecostal he was John the Baptist. They don't accept it too well but it's true. Then I tell the Pentecostals they were not the first to preach it it was a Baptist who preached well he shook up the whole of society.

400 years of stillness without any prophetic voice is every considerable disadvantage. It says one thing about John the Baptist it doesn't say about Jesus it says he was filled with the holy ghost from his mother's womb.

It also says John did no miracle. Nobody ran after him saying heal my child or my my husband is blind. He did no miracle. He didn't raise the dead. He did more than that he raised the dead nation. You know it's a famous English art critic by the name of John Ruskin.

Somebody asked him once could he define preaching he said yes 30 minutes to raise the dead. Now don't laugh in class in the morning when you think of what that means but anyhow I think it's a good definition.

I wonder the other day when they said a chaplain had to go speak to about 20 men on death row. I thought well I have a bigger task than that I preach to the dead on every row every night nearly. So right after John Baptist is disturbed he's shaken the city the community the synagogue the temple and then Jesus comes.

Now when you read his story you've read it so often it doesn't mean anything. I believe this is the greatest social event in that city that year. People couldn't believe that this miracle working man this man who claims to be the son of God they couldn't believe that he was going to dine in the house of a very ordinary person.

Jesus' Banquet and the Woman's Humble Service

Now you've got problems when you have a banquet. I think first of all he he had difficulty because he's limited seating accommodation. He had to make a list of his guests you've got to have the right folk there you know and he crossed one name out and put in another he got the mayor of the city and the merchants and the millionaires and everybody.

It's rather amazing isn't it when you read this story that we don't know who was on the guest list except the woman that shouldn't have been there. She was a gatecrusher. It's a totally unexampled story.

I'm sure it was premeditated. I can think of her there at the door of the house. You could almost see her heart beating. She's going to gatecrushers tag party. Maybe one of the best known if not the best known woman in the city and next he goes and again she has just a treasure with her.

She has a an alabaster box of ointment. If you read the version of the story that's given by John in John 12 it says that she carried a box of ointment that weighed one pound. So what who cares whether it weighed a pound or six ounces or five pounds.

Well I think it makes a very significant mark on the story. He goes into this party. She sees this amazing man. Maybe she'd seen him many times. Healed the sick and cleansed the lepers and raised the dead.

And here she is nervously jostling at the side of him. And no doubt he was lying on a couch as they did in those days. The Roman style eating his meal and suddenly she goes up. Now the custom was going into the door to have your feet washed.

You see you could label this chapter the complaining Christ. He says I entered into thine house thou gavest me no water thou gavest me no oil thou gavest me no kiss. But this woman she said wash his feet with water.

No never. So she washed his feet with her warm tears. Wipe his feet with a costly towel. No. She pulled the pins out of her hair and let her hair down and dried his feet with the hair of her head. Which was considered the very wrong thing to do in those days.

And then she took the alabaster box of ointment and she brought it over his feet. You have to read all the versions of the story to find all the details that I'm giving. They're not just in one version.

So she poured that pungent fragrant ointment on his feet. And then she wiped his feet with the hair of her head. Well do you get the point? The fragrance that she poured out on him came back on her. And the reason why so often we carry little fragrance of Christ is we make prayer a convenient place to dump all our problems.

We fail to worship him. They said after the people there had gathered at Pentecost they took knowledge of them but they had been with Jesus. And wherever the woman went she carried a fragrance that she poured out on the son of God.

Charles Wesley has a beautiful hymn in which he says, O let me kiss thy bleeding feet and bathe and wash them with my tears. The story of thy love repeats in every drooping sinner's ears till all mankind with me may prove thy sovereign everlasting love.

Frieda Hambria Allen, an English lady, wrote a wonderful poem. I can't quote it all maybe but it begins, Within the veil. You know in the old economy, let me say this, in the old testament you had an outer court, three classes of men in Israel.

The Holy of Holies and the Glory of God

In the old economy a man could not be a soldier until he was 20. Because both then and now you didn't need brains to kill people. He could not be a soldier till he was 20. He could not be a priest until he was 25.

He could not be a high priest until he was 30. Jesus didn't minister till he was 30. Neither did John the Baptist, neither did the apostle Paul. Does that mean you have to be 30 years of age? No. 30 is like the number 7.

It's a number of completions. The walls of Noah's ark were 30 cubits high. The walls of the house that Solomon built were 30 cubits high. Now in the outer court you had daylight. In the holy place you had lamplight.

In the holy of holies there was no light. Daylight in the outer court, lamplight in the holy place. In the holy of holies no light at all. And no windows. Unless the shekinah glory of God came it was total darkness.

The man staggered around. We don't need to wait for the glory of God to come. We start with music and clapping and we try and work up something because there's nothing coming down so very often. It must have been awesome to go into that pitch dark room and suddenly the glory of God, God who is light, in him is no darkness.

He comes and that blazing glory. An American wrote to him in the 1700s, before thy never blazing throne. We have no luster of our own. A lady called me, she goes to one of the greatest churches in this country.

It was Saturday and I said, well are you going to church tomorrow yet? I said, do you expect to tiptoe out of the church tomorrow morning overwhelmed with the holiness and majesty and glory of God? She said, never at our church.

Let me ask you a simple question. Did you come here tonight to meet God or did you come to hear a sermon about him? How often do we go to expect to be overwhelmed with the majesty and glory of God? I believe we have to return to a rediscovery of the majesty of God's glory, of the holiness of God.

It's a fascinating story to me this anyhow. Again she didn't go there to meet the host. She didn't go there to meet the guests. She didn't go there to hear a sermon. She went specifically because I believe she'd been overwhelmed and recognized something in Jesus Christ that nobody else had recognized.

And even if they throw it out on her neck she didn't care. She'd been in his holy presence. She must have been very excited the week after when there was a crowd watching that same man hang on a cross, with blood running out of his feet and out of his hands.

And she thought back to the week before when she had those precious feet in her own hands and she washed and bathed them with her tears. Nobody else thought to do that. If she's the sister of Lazarus and it seems that she was, she didn't love Lazarus enough to take that one pound of ointment and anoint him at his burial.

You know there's no evidence that Jesus ever took a bite of food or a drink of wine or anything at that banquet. I can almost imagine Simon, for that was his name, feeling angry. Or saying to Jesus, do you realize what this banquet cost me?

Do you know I've got the most precious foods? Do you know all the labor involved and you turn away from the meal? There's no evidence he partook of it. He was satisfied with the worship that that woman gave him.

He did not need food. Again it's interesting she came with an alabaster box of ointments worth a lot of money, about 300 pence, which was a year's wages, and broke it on his feet. Go to the 19th chapter of the gospel of John and it says there that there were some men trudging up a hill.

They had a pole and on it they had a hundred pounds of this same ointment. Somebody estimated it was worth more than a million dollars. What were they going to do? They were going to embalm Jesus. But isn't it better to give him a pound of ointment while he's living than a hundred pounds when he's dead?

Costly Devotion and the Christian's Social Calendar

I hear people say sometime about their money what they're going to do with it after they die. I love dear Dr. Tozer. I spent many many hours with him, just the two of us talking. He startled me one day when he said Len, Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them.

Well isn't it true? I mean how many times have you sung, were the whole realm of nature mine? It was an offering far too small, but if you don't give him your bank balance, never mind the whole realm of nature.

How often do we sing a hymn, a favorite hymn of mine? Beneath the cross of Jesus I would take my stand. And in the second or third time it says this, content to let the world go by, to know no shame nor loss.

And then there's another part of that hymn that says, I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of thy face. Is that true? I'm not grasping after anything else to be the best known bible teacher, or have a great ministry, or a famous person.

I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of thy face. And if you've got there, you've learned how to worship him. People want to go to this place to worship. You remember in the fourth chapter of John, the woman there said, well you can't worship here, we need to go to Mount Gerizim.

And Jesus says, no neither there nor in Jerusalem. The day is coming when you won't need to go to a holy place. Some people want to go to Rome. Some people want to go to Mecca. Some people want to go to some other place.

The Irish, and I've lived in Ireland, it's a wonderful country. The Irish singer Hayman in it, it says this, where 'er we seek thee thou art found, and every place is hallowed ground. Within the veil, Frieda Hambrian Allen says, be this beloved thy portion within the seat of thy Lord to dwell.

Beholding him until thy face is glory, thy life is love, thy lips is praise shall tell. Within the veil, for only as thou gavest upon the matchless beauty of his face, canst thou become a living revelation of his great heart of love, his untold grace.

Within the veil, his fragrance poured upon thee. Without the veil, that fragrance shed abroad. Within the veil, his hands shall tune the music which sounds on earth the praises of thy God. I can remember more than once, Dr. Toto would say to me, Len, well forget all our other people.

You and I will seek God face downward. Well if you're gazing only down at the rug, you're not distracted by anything else round about. But unless you're absolutely captivated with the Son of God, that position down there isn't too attractive.

Anyhow, this woman worshiped him. Again, I don't know if anybody else spoke to him. I know she didn't speak to him. There's no record of him speaking. She was satisfied to take in the most precious thing that she had.

And if you're going to learn to worship God, it will cost you something. It will possibly mean that you have to revise your social calendar. We're the most undisciplined age that the world has ever known.

Discipline and the Devotional Life

I hear about people saying, I'm just, I'm discipling so-and-so. You can, if you disciple somebody, hit you on the head with a handbook. You say you need to be in bed by 10 o 'clock at the latest every night, and up at four o 'clock by the latest every morning.

There's a remarkable book written by a man called, what's his name called? Goudge. He wrote it, I think about 1604. It's on the epistles of the Hebrews. It has about 1140 pages. It's worth buying. Keep you busy all year reading it.

He finished, not began, he finished his devotions by two o 'clock every morning. John Wesley rose at four every morning. So did Whitfield. I don't know what there is magic about that four o 'clock figure, but I noticed in reading great biographies and autobiographies, that so many men were, they'd been praying two or three hours by five o 'clock in the morning.

Do you wonder that they had such expanded intellect? Do you wonder that they discovered something of the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of God, that other people didn't discover? Dr. Tozer didn't hide the fact that he loved to worship.

He quoted Faber so often. One of his favorite phrases was, O Jesus, Jesus dearest Lord, forgive me if I say for very love thy sacred name a thousand times a day. Or maybe quote the first verse, my God how wonderful thou art, thy majesty how bright, how beautiful thy mercy seat in depths of burning light.

O Lord, O Lord, how wonderful will it be, prostrate before thy throne to lie and gaze and gaze on me. You think back, how long is it since you went into God's presence, not to praise and not to pray, but just to adore him, to worship him, to magnify him, to think of his holiness, to think of how many times he could have destroyed you before you were saved, when you were blaspheming, when you were breaking every law, and he kept a list of them.

And you'd sinned enough to damn the whole neighborhood, never mind yourself. And then he came and intervened in your life and snatched you as a branch from the burning, as the word of God says. It's very remarkable, isn't it, that this woman is in the house of a man by the name of Simon.

Simon the Leper and the Meaning of True Worship

If you take the story as it's recorded in the 26th chapter of Matthew, it says Jesus went into the house of Simon the leper. Ridiculous. You couldn't go into the house of a leper by law. I can imagine Simon one day goes to his wife and he says, Rebecca, look, and she's, oh, you haven't used the towels, have you?

You've got leprosy. How long? Oh, about a week. Why didn't you tell me? I didn't want to leave you and the children. Go to the temple immediately and they'll pronounce you unclean. And they cross him off the religious register.

Go to the gate of the city, they cross him off the social register. Now here Jesus is sitting in the house of Simon the leper. Well, how can he sit in the house of Simon the leper? Only one way he could do it, and that was that he'd been healed by Jesus.

And yet Jesus has to say to that man, Simon, I came into your house, you gave me no water, you gave me no oil, you gave me no kiss, but this woman, the only reason you're sitting in your home here at this meal is that I cleansed you of leprosy.

And you got back on the social register, and you got back on the religious register, and here you are. You've never even done the very humble task of what the slave used to do at the door, wash the feet of the person who came in, because they wore no hose.

And they got grit between their toes, and that was uncomfortable. And so the foot washing ceremony was the first thing. And then the anointing of the head. She could have anointed him with oil, that was the cheapest way.

But she anointed him with this very, very precious ointment. Have you noticed when people came to worship, they brought costly gifts? They came wise men from the east, what did they do? They brought gold, symbolic of frankincense.

And the only way that fragrance will come out of frankincense is you put fire to it, and myrrh, a type of suffering. They gave him that myrrh on the cross. This woman brings this costly, most pungent, most expensive gift that she has.

She isn't satisfied to just put it on his head, on his feet. She isn't satisfied to kiss him, she can't, she's so passionate. With that sensitivity she has, maybe she's already had a preview of the cross.

And she doesn't care whether the men kick her out, throw her out. She's got to witness that this man really is who he says he is, he's the son of God. And therefore again she teases his feet, washes them with those warm tears, wipes them with the hair of her head, pours that costly ointment on, on him.

I say a week after when everybody else was weeping round the cross, I believe she was the only one with a smile. I was terrified before I broke into that house that I'd get thrown out, but oh I'm so glad now I took the risk.

I'm so glad even though one of the disciples says, this is a waste of money isn't it? Why wasn't it sold for 300 pence? Not that he cared for the poor, he might have pocketed some of the money. But here she is content because she has worshipped him.

And Jesus said to the woman in the fourth chapter of John, you remember that when we worship we must worship in spirit and in truth. There's much about holy places, they're not holy in the sight of God.

Entertainment as a Substitute for Joy

It's idiotic, now we're building super churches, no super church buildings. Two of them being built in Houston right now, both costing over 14 million dollars each. They're really sanctified, one of them has a five lane bowling alley in it.

I suppose they have a text on the wall, bodily exercise profiteth little. The other one has five thorns about in it. Well I believe people should go to church to be cleansed, but not that way. You know the less we have of the glory of God, the more gimmicks we have to have.

Here's a simple thing the Lord spoke to me about two years ago. Entertainment, and I'm sure many of you are drug addicts, you're drugged with TV, but entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. And the more joy you have, the less entertainment you need.

We think of Jesus always as a man of sorrows, but just before he leaves the disciples and gives that marvelous prayer in John 17, in the 15th chapter he says, I give you my joy and no man taketh it from you.

They can take everything else we have, it looks as though they will before too long. Take the clothes off your back, but they can't rob us on the inside. We have treasures that nothing can steal. Moth and rust can't corrupt it, and thieves can't break through and steal it.

Do you think this woman ever regretted doing the thing that she did? I'm sure it was gossip all over the city the next day. You know that woman, that wretched woman, she broke into a party last night.

Well, I suppose they kicked her out. No, they didn't. In fact, the chief guest there received her. You see, she brought a gift. What did Jesus do? Well, he recognized it and he rewarded it. He said, the fragrance that this woman has broken upon me, it will be remembered until the world, to the end of the world.

Falling Before the Lamb in Worship

Let me prove my point I began with before I finish here. I said we stand to sing in Europe, we stand up for every hymn. We kneel to pray. If you watch the First Baptist Church service Sunday morning with its vast crowd, everybody in the place kneels to pray before the pastor prays.

We stand to sing, we kneel to pray, we prostrate ourselves when we worship. In Revelation 1, it says in verse 17, John says, when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. Do you remember Daniel says the same thing, that when the glory of the Son of God was revealed, he withered up, he shrank to the ground.

He says, I have no strength left. Revelation chapter 5 and verse 8. You see, there's a superior praise, because worship is a combination of what? Adoration, meditation, contemplation. John says here, when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.

Chapter 5 and verse 8. There's a twofold doxology as you read that part of the story there. But in chapter 5, you have a fourfold doxology. Every creature which is in heaven and on the earth. No, pardon me, the verse before, verse 12.

You have many angels round about the throne and 10 ,000 times 10 ,000, which is a hundred million plus thousands, saying, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing of a fourfold doxology.

Now in this fifth chapter of Revelation, verse 1, it says, I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back side, it was a scroll and there were seven seals and the seals are going to be broken.

I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? This has been called the most awesome moment in eternity. What is the book? The book is the title deeds of the universe, the forfeited deeds for the universe.

And John by Revelation says, no man in heaven or in earth, wait a minute, here is one sitting on the throne is the title deeds of the universe that was lost by the sin of Adam. And no man in heaven or earth, wait a minute, wait a minute, there's Isaiah.

Isaiah, would you come and take the title deeds out of the hand of him that sits on the throne? No, I can't do that. Well, Moses, would you do it? No. But surely there's the greatest man that ever lived after Jesus, a man with a colossal intellect, a man that wrote 14 epistles, a man that established churches in hell holes, a man that did every miracle Jesus did except walk on water, by the name of Saul of Tartus, the king of rebels who became the most outstanding Christian the world has ever known.

Paul, would you come and take the book out of him that sits on the throne? What about Josiah? What about Isaiah? He says there's no man in the whole span of heaven, in the whole span of history, there's not one person that can step out and take the book out of the hand of him that sat on the throne.

And he said, I wept much. Now let me tell you this, if you get a full view of God in his holiness and majesty, it's not all going to be laughter. My neighbor is David Wilkerson, my other neighbor sitting here, precious Quaker brother, spiritual Quaker brother.

I don't know what David is except he's a nuisance to the devil. I used to get hours with Dr. Tozer, now I get hours every week with David Wilkerson. We never talk about books, we talk about crusades, we don't consider others.

For the last few months we've talked just about the holiness and majesty and glory and faithfulness of God. John says, I wept much. You say to people, cast your burden on the Lord. Tell me this, who does God cast his burdens on?

He doesn't need them, he's omnipotent and omnipresent present and omniscient and omnipresent and omnipotent. God doesn't cast his burden, yes he does. Because Jesus says, my yoke is easy, my burden is light.

The Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings

Some months ago I was reading Philippians, what is it, 310. Here is the apostle, he's lived 33 years, he's written all these epistles, he's been caught up to the third heaven. You wonder he didn't write a book on that in itself.

They do that today, they've got 10 versions of it, make a million dollars out of it. But he got into the place where he dares to say in Romans 9, I could wish myself a curse. In Philippians he says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, which is lovely.

What about the next part, the fellowship of his suffering? Do you know I was stupid enough to ask God to let me know the fellowship of his suffering? And almost all the commentators say, well it means like Paul suffered in prison, that's not what he's talking about.

People say today, don't tell young people when they get saved, they have to take up their cross, it's bad psychology. Well then God has bad psychology. Because he told Ananias, go tell Saul, not what he must suffer, but what great things he must suffer.

He wrote the record book in suffering. And he says, but that's not enough, I want to fill up the sufferings of Christ. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings.

He wasn't saying he wanted to suffer for Christ, he wanted to suffer with him. Do you know what that means? It means that every time he went through Jerusalem, he saw the temple like Jesus saw it, a boneyard.

He saw the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. He saw the most stupid nation. He remembered those holy men had walked there and now look at this, look at the country. It's given up to idolatry, new moons and Sabbath.

With the knowledge of God, but no power of God. Is it amazing that we put on our coins in God we trust, but we won't trust him to listen to the prayers of children in school. Okay, the writer here says, no man in earth or in heaven was worthy.

And I wept much. That word wept is used only once in the New Testament, apart from this occasion. And it's when Jesus wept over Jerusalem. And it doesn't mean a shuffling little tear you wipe away, embarrassed.

It means sobs and groans and agony. And he says, there's no man able to take the title of being God with the hands of him that sits upon the throne. And then he says, I beheld verse six and law, a lamb in the midst of the throne, a lamb as it had been slain.

And when he had taken the book, the fallen 20 elders fell down before the lamb. Every one of them had their hearts and vials full of orders, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song.

Verse 11, I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne. And the beasts and the elders, a number of them was 10 ,000 times, 10 ,000 and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and wisdom and strength and honor and glory.