 Hey, man, so keep your place in Revelation chapter 15. We'll get there in just a few minutes, but we're starting a new sermon series tonight. It's called, the sermon series is called God's Numbers. And in the Mother's Day sermon, we looked at Second Kings chapter four, the story of the Shunamite woman and how the prophet raised up her son from the dead. And Jacob, if you wanna go ahead and turn there, we'll look at that real quickly. And I mentioned during that sermon that it's important to one of the points I made in the sermon is how important it is to sit down and read the Bible with your children. And one of the reasons I said that is because your children, many times what you'll find is they will ask you questions about the Bible, many times questions that you never thought about, or you never, you know, they have a different perspective. They have kids have like a pure perspective when it comes to looking at the Bible. So many times they'll ask you questions that you're not ready for. And I got a question that was along those lines. I wasn't ready to answer this whole question. I gave a one sentence answer and then said I would basically start a sermon series about it. But we'll look down at Second Kings chapter four and look at verse number 34. Jacob asked this question about two hours after I preached that sermon. Look at verse number 34 of Second Kings chapter four. This is about Elisha raising up this child of the Shunamite woman from the dead. And he went up and he lay upon the child and put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands and stretched himself upon the child and the flesh of the child waxed warm. Of course, this is the child that died from the farming accident and Elisha, she came to Elisha for help. Then he returned and walked in the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gahazi and said call this Shunamite. So he called her and when she was come into him, he said, take up thy son. So the question was, actually it was more of a statement, it wasn't, I mean, I was a question, but basically, Jacob asked the question. He said, Dad, I know that everything in the Bible means something and there's nothing in the Bible that's there on accident. So why did the child sneeze seven times? So that's kind of where this sermon series came from, God's number. So I gave him a quick answer and I'm gonna give you just a few minutes on what that seven means, but then I'll kind of dive deeper into the story towards the end of the sermons. We're looking at God's numbers, numbers in the Bible that have meaning for this sermon series. The first number we're gonna look at is the number seven. And the number seven is all over the Bible. The number seven is all over the Bible from Genesis to especially Revelation. It just pops up everywhere. So I'm gonna explain that to you this evening, it's in so many places in the Bible, we literally can't go to all the places in the Bible to look at the number seven. But I'm gonna show you what the number seven means tonight and everywhere you see the number seven, what I tell you tonight will apply. So look at Genesis chapter two, first of all, Genesis chapter two, let's start at the beginning. We'll come back to this story about the Shunemite and what that means a little bit later towards the end, but look at Genesis chapter two. Let's look at the number seven in the Bible and get to the bottom of what this means. So of course, actually go to Genesis chapter two and let's just look at verse number one. We're looking at the number seven and what it means in the Bible. So it's too many times to cover everything in the Bible. So we're gonna look at the beginning of the Bible, look at the end of the Bible. I'll tell you what it means and then we'll go deeper into it in a little bit. Look at verse number one of Genesis chapter two. We're looking at the number seven, all right? Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it, he had rested from all his work which God created and made. So remember, the creation itself, the work was done in six days, all right? And it was on the seventh day that God rested and he sanctified, he sanctified it. He blessed the seventh day, he sanctified it because in it, he rested from all his work. Now go to Revelation chapter 15. I should have told you to keep your place there but the point is the creation, we consider the creation to be seven days including that day of rest on day number seven, all right? So God rested, he sanctified the seventh day and he blessed the seventh day with just resting and looking back at the creation that he had done. Look at Revelation chapter 15, look at verse number one. Now at the end of the Bible, we see the number seven coming up again and again and again. I could have chosen almost any chapter in Revelation but I chose Revelation chapter 15 because it kind of wraps up one of the last things that God uses the number seven for. He says that I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the wrath of God. So the Bible here is saying is that these angels, they hold the last plagues and in these plagues are the entire wrath of God. All right, the entire wrath of God is contained in how many plagues, in these seven plagues. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire and then that it had gotten the victory over the beast and over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name. Stand on the sea of glass having the harps of God. So these people are in heaven at this point and they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God almighty, just and true are thy ways, thou king of saints. So we're looking at saints that are in heaven at this point and the rapture has already happened in Revelation chapter 14 and we're looking for what comes right after the rapture. It's the pouring out of God's wrath. All right, look at verse number four. Who shall not fear me, O Lord and glorify thy name for thou art only art holy, for all nations shall come in worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest. And after that I looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened and the seven angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues as we just saw in the verse one clothed in purple and white linen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles and one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full. So this is how these are the containers that are holding those plagues, holding that plague full of what? Full of the wrath of God who liveth forever and ever and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power and no man was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. So it wasn't fulfilled, this wasn't over, the wrath of God wasn't over until all seven vials were poured out. All seven plagues were poured out. So we see from creation at the beginning to the wrath of God at the end, the number seven is picturing completeness or perfection. That's what the number seven in the Bible is picturing. Go back to, actually you go to First Thessalonians chapter five. Now that we know that if we look at creation, we look at creation and we see that the seven days of creation included this rest day, included this blessing day to be complete. Look at First Thessalonians chapter five. First Thessalonians chapter five. It's not just six days and then the seventh, it was just like a vacation day. It was like, no, there was a reason for that seventh day, that seventh day was important and we can apply that to ourselves in First Thessalonians chapter five and verse number 18. This is a good lesson for us here as Christians. Look at First Thessalonians chapter five and verse number 18. The Bible says in First Thessalonians 5.18, it says in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. So we can apply that to ourselves in the sense that we need to appreciate our blessings or they are not complete. We need to take time in our lives on a regular basis to be thankful. I mean, the Bible talks about being thankful all the time. Being thankful is, being unthankful is a super serious sin. So we need to take time from our busy lives, our work and this is why Sunday is such a great day. Sunday is such a great day where we can just worship the Lord and fellowship with other believers and then break bread after Sunday night service. It's super important for us to do this and it completes our week. Go to Psalm chapter 12. Let's look at more completeness, more perfection using the number seven in the Bible. Look at verse number six of Psalm chapter 12. So you see that God completed the creation. You know, he took that day to sanctify the whole thing, to bless the whole thing. The whole thing was complete after the seventh day. All right, same thing with the wrath of God. The whole thing was complete after the seventh vile. That's very symbolic and very important. Look at Psalm chapter 12. How about this one that uses the number seven to be complete and perfect? You think about the things that we need to have complete and perfect in our lives. What's the most important thing that we need to have complete and perfect in our lives? It's the Bible. It's the word of God. You say, well, is the word of God complete? Yes, it is. Look at Psalm chapter 12 in verse number six. The Bible says the words of the Lord are pure words. As silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times. Now you see how that number seven is important? You see how the number seven is important knowing that seven means completion. Seven means perfection. Because what are we told by a lot of cults and false religions today? I mean, pretty much every cult, I think, is basically coming up with some new revelation. It's some leader or personality that comes out and says, I have a new revelation from God. Or there's extra biblical information put in. It's very easy to just twist what's actually in the Bible because nobody knows what the Bible says anymore. But a very popular and common thing is for some false prophet to try to add to the word of God. I mean, look at Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith, I mean, literally just had, it's literally called, the Book of Mormon is literally called, I think it's called another revelation of Jesus Christ. I mean, that whole church, that whole religion teaches that up until that point where that false prophet found these plates or whatever it was, this extra revelation that Christianity was lost up until that point. But the Bible is saying, I mean, that flies right in the face of Psalm 12-6. God says, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from what? This generation forever. We're not gonna lose the word of God. And guess what? There's a lot of people that say, you'll take that purified seven times and apply it to the King James Bible and how the King James Bible was developed. And I'm not against that. But the most important thing about this verse is that the Bible is complete and perfect. It is done. There is no other revelation. As a matter of fact, God ends the Bible in Revelation chapter 22 by saying, hey, if you add to it or you take away from it, you're done. You're not going to heaven. You're not gonna be saved. That's how serious God is about it. Look, there is no extra revelation. I mean, that would solve a lot of problems if people knew that today. But that's the importance of that number seven in Psalm chapter 12. It just shows it's complete. It's perfect. It's done. How about Jesus? Go to John chapter six. John chapter six. Jesus in the number seven all over the place. But there's a bigger picture here. So I'll just give you a few of these, these smaller examples of Jesus and the number seven. And then we'll look at like the bigger picture of Jesus and the number seven. In the book of John, there's the I am statements of Jesus. Jesus is coming and he's saying, you know, I am these things. And there's seven of those statements. There's seven of these statements where Jesus says in John chapter six, 35. He says, I am, Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger. He that believeth on me shall never thirst. In John chapter eight, you go to John chapter 10. You go to John chapter 10, I'll read for you John 8, 12. Jesus says, I am the light of the world. In John chapter 10, in verse number seven, Jesus says, I am the door. In John chapter 10, in verse number 11, Jesus says, I am the good shepherd. Matching exactly, Psalm chapter 23, where it says the Lord is my shepherd. John chapter 11, verse 25, you don't have to turn there. He says, I am the resurrection and the life. John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth and the life. And the number seven, I am statement in the Bible is John 15 in chapter, in verse number one, where he says, I am the true vine. So there just happens to be seven of these statements where Jesus says, I am. There's how many statements did Jesus say on the cross? There's seven statements in the Bible with Jesus speaking on the cross. Go to Matthew chapter 15, Matthew chapter 15. So the number seven is all over the Bible and it's all over Jesus' ministry as well. Look at Matthew chapter 15 and verse number 32. Matthew chapter 15 and verse number 32. The Bible says in verse 32, Jesus called his disciples unto them and said, I have compassion on the multitude because they continue with me now three days and they have nothing to eat. And I will not send them away fasting unless they faint in the way. And as disciples say unto him, when should we have not so much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude? And Jesus said, how many loaves are there? And they said, seven and a few little fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground and he took the seven loaves and fishes and gave thanks and break it and gave it to his disciples and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat and were filled and they took up the broken meat that were left, seven baskets full. And they did eat, were 4,000 men besides women and children. When Jesus fed the 5,000, so this was the feeding of the 4,000. In Luke chapter nine, when he fed the 5,000, there was five loaves and two fishes, seven. Showing just the completeness of what was needed from Jesus. It was complete, it was enough is what the Bible is telling us here. Like I said, Jesus had seven statements on the cross. Now these are just kind of like little examples of the number seven. But what's the big number seven for Jesus? Go to Leviticus chapter 16. So we know from past sermons that the day of atonement, Leviticus chapter 16, it details this great sacrifice that they were to do every year with the day of atonement with the bull and two goats and it's this whole detailed thing. And we know that Jesus pictures the entire thing. So the entire day of atonement sacrifice was picturing Jesus, all right? So you say, what part of the day of atonement was Jesus? All of it is the answer, all right? Look at verse number 14 of Leviticus chapter 16. The Bible says in verse number 14, it says he shall take the blood of the bullock. So this is the bullock was for the high priest and the goats were for the people. He says he shall take the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. Then shall he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his blood from within the veil that the blood he did of the blood sprinkled upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. And he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions and all their sins. So shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. Verse 17. And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when you have goeth in to make atonement in the holy place until he come out and have made an atonement for himself and for his household and for all the congregation of Israel. He shall go out under the altar that is before the Lord and make an atonement for it and he shall take the blood of the bullock and the blood of the goat and put it upon the horns of the altar round about and he shall sprinkle the blood upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. This is symbolizing, turn to Hebrews chapter 12. This is symbolizing that number seven when he sprinkled the blood on the altar this was symbolizing the completeness of the blood atonement of Jesus Christ. That's what this was picturing. You say why seven times? Because the number seven symbolizes completeness or perfection. Now that, look, that sacrifice in Leviticus chapter 16 was not perfect or complete. It was just a picture of the perfect sacrifice to come. But that's why they did things in such a specific way because they were picturing, they were shadowing what the actual perfect sacrifice was going to be. Look at Hebrews chapter 10 and verse number one, the Bible explains this for us here. It says, for the law having a shadow of good things to come. Meaning Leviticus chapter 16, the law, the Old Testament is shadowing Christ. The whole Old Testament is pointing to Jesus, folks. The shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers there unto perfect. Those sacrifices only pictured the perfect sacrifice. Those sacrifices didn't save the people, okay? For then they would not have seized to be offered. He's saying, I mean this is such a great picture of eternal salvation and the once sacrifice of Jesus. For then they would not have seized to be offered. He's like, why would they have to do it every year if it was a perfect sacrifice? Because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifice there is a remembrance, again made of sins every year. For it is not possible, this is really the key right here, it is not possible that the blood, bulls and goats should take away sins. Those sacrifices in Leviticus chapter 16 and all over the Old Testament did not take away the people's sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come in the volume of the book that is written of me, the law, the Old Testament, to do thy will, oh God. Above when he said, sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for the sin, thou wouldest not, neither haths pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, lo, I come to do thy will, oh God. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second. By the which we are sanctified, this is the New Testament right here. By the which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So all that stuff did was picture the perfect sacrifice and what a better way to do it than use this number seven that symbolizes completion and perfection. The high priest, they just were just symbolizing this thing that Christ actually accomplished himself through his body. Turn to Revelation chapter one, let's look at another one. Now this one's a little deep, all right? This one's a little deep and there's some weird stuff on this one out there. But it's really not that complicated if we just look at what the Bible says as with most things. Look at Revelation chapter one, let's look at another seven in the Bible, another seven in the Bible. Look at Revelation chapter one, verse number four. The Bible says, John to the seven churches, well first of all, how many letters were there? There were seven. There were seven churches which are in Asia, grace be unto you in peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven spirits which are before his throne. And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood. Go to Revelation chapter three. So there's this mention of these seven spirits of God. So what is that all about? Look at Revelation chapter three and verse number one. Revelation chapter three and verse number one. Now if you have a red letter Bible, the letters to the seven churches are all, I mean Revelation chapter two and Revelation chapter three are all red words if you have a red letter Bible because it's Jesus speaking to the churches. Jesus is literally giving this counsel to these seven churches which means it's pretty good you know complete counsel to these churches. Look at verse number one of Revelation chapter three. And under the angel all that to say that Jesus is the one speaking and under the angel of the church in Sardis right these things sayeth he, so who's saying this? Let's talk about Jesus right here. Okay, these things sayeth he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars I know thy works that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead. So Jesus is speaking and here the Bible is saying that Jesus hath the seven spirits of God. All right, look at Revelation chapter five. Revelation chapter five. So I mean these seven spirits of God. Look at Revelation chapter five verse number six. Revelation five and verse number six. And I beheld and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as it had been slain. That's of course Jesus having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. So the lamb has these seven horns and seven eyes which again it mentions the seven spirits of God. So the Bible here is mentioning that Jesus has these seven spirits of God. So I mean what is this? Is like are we getting rid of the Trinity here and going to like a nine part God here? I mean what's going on? All right, let's look at this. Look at Isaiah chapter 11 to find out what this is all about. I mean it's definitely something. I mean it comes up, you know, talking about these seven spirits in Revelation and that Jesus has them. All right, look at Isaiah. Go to Isaiah chapter 11. Go to Isaiah chapter 11 and we're gonna look at verse, I guess we'll start in verse number one. So Isaiah chapter 11 and the first couple of verses here. So it's clearly a prophecy of Jesus Christ. It's clearly talking about Jesus Christ. All right, so Isaiah chapter 11, look at verse number one and you'll see what I'm talking about. It says in there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots. So of course Jesse was David's father, David's father and of course we know that Jesus Christ came from the line of David. Fulfilling that messianic prophecy that David was given by the prophet Nathan. All right, so remember when David was, he was mourning his sin and his son was sick and his son died and then he wanted to build the temple and basically Nathan said you're not gonna build the temple, your son's gonna build the temple and then he gives in that messianic prophecy that the Messiah's gonna come from you, your kingdom shall go into eternity. That's that prophecy that was fulfilled through Jesus Christ. But now look at verse number two. The Bible says and the spirit, now it's talking about Jesus, talking about in Isaiah, talking about the coming Messiah. These are, this is a great prophecy about Jesus. It says the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. Now we'll assume that's the Holy Spirit, right? The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. If you count all those things up, including the spirit of the Lord, you're looking at seven things right there. All right, so that is, those are the spirits of God. Now turn to Matthew chapter three. So you say, when did Jesus get this? The Bible says that he's going to get the spirit of the Lord. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him and then he's gonna get this spirit of wisdom and understanding and counsel and might and the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. So that is, look, that is what the seven spirits of God are. What the seven spirits of God are, here's how I kind of look at it. They're like characteristics of God, basically. And look, there's seven of them. It's kind of a, there's seven characteristics or seven attributes of God. That's how I look at the seven spirits of God. It's not like there's, you know, we're not busting up the Trinity here, okay? One of the seven spirits of God that Jesus was gonna get was literally the Holy Spirit is what it talks about here. It says the spirit of the Lord. Look at Matthew chapter three and this is when this happens. The Bible tells us when, you know, the Holy Spirit, you know, it's like Jesus being filled with the spirit here. Look at Matthew chapter three and verse 16. So basically, if you wanna think about it this way, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is kind of the mechanism that gave Jesus these other, you know, characteristics of God, you know, it's kind of the conduit that God used to give that to Jesus, all right? It's kind of where he received that fullness from. Not that he wasn't God already, okay? Don't get me wrong. He was already God already, but he was kind of filled with these characteristics at this point. Look at verse 16. This is what Isaiah chapter two or 11 verse number two is talking about. It says when Jesus was baptized, he went up straight away out of the water and lo, the heavens were opened up to him and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. And lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son and who I'm well pleased. And then of course, what happens right after this? If you look at Matthew chapter four, it says Jesus was what? He was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. And then of course, right after he was led by the spirit to be tempted 40 days by Satan, what does he do? He starts his ministry and he starts calling disciples. All right, so God basically brought down the seven spirits of God through the conduit of the Holy Spirit onto Jesus so he could start his ministry. Jesus was already God before that. We say, why is there seven? Why is there seven? Go to, actually we'll get to that in just a minute. Actually, go to Colossians chapter two. We almost read this today when we read the whole thing, but go to Colossians chapter two. Go to Colossians chapter two. Let me just complete this idea of these spirits of God. Revelation talks about the seven spirits of God. Jesus having the seven spirits of God. Isaiah chapter 11 says that Jesus is going to get the seven spirits of God. One of those is the spirit of the Lord. In Matthew chapter three, we see Jesus, the Holy Spirit coming down upon Jesus. The seven spirits are just the seven characteristics, or maybe you could call them gifts that came, characteristics or attributes maybe, of God that came upon Jesus before he started his ministry. It's just kind of a complete picture of God. But you're saying, now you say, well, the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It wasn't Jesus just the Son, but see, no, he wasn't. Not in that sense. Look at Colossians chapter two and look at verse number nine. So Jesus was the Son, and the Son is not the Father, and the Son is not the Holy Spirit. As we see the Holy Spirit come upon God. But this is where people get all wacky. But here's what you have to understand about the Trinity. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, it's not like that's why anybody that gets up and draws a graph or puts up an egg or something, they're always gonna end up being wrong because there's really no analogy that really covers this well. You can't really take a pie and say, Jesus is the third God and the Father's the third God and the Holy Spirit's a third God because of Colossians chapter two and verse number nine and really because of Isaiah chapter 11 and verse number two and Matthew chapter three. I mean, really, look at verse number two. It says, for in him, talking about Jesus, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. It's saying Jesus was 100% God. You say, I don't understand that. Here's the thing you have to understand. You don't have to understand everything. I mean, sometimes we just gotta kind of stop and just say, so Jesus was not one third God. Jesus was all God. And that's what it's saying. That's what the Bible is basically saying when it says the seven spirits were given to him, meaning he was the full, he was fully man and he was fully God. But he was just the Son, but he was fully God. I don't understand that. Well, I don't really understand it either, but maybe that's one all tap Jesus on the shoulder and say, hey, what's the mechanics of that when I get to heaven? I don't really have to understand all the complicated things that are beyond human understanding. This is God's stuff. This is like, when we start talking about these types of things, God told us these seven spirits. He told us what the seven spirits were. He told us what Jesus was given in Matthew chapter three. And he started, I mean, it makes sense to me. It makes sense to me if you look at the things that he was given in Isaiah chapter 11. He got a guy that's starting his ministry and he's got wisdom and understanding and counsel and might and knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Those seem like things that would be pretty valuable for someone that's gonna go and do a ministry on earth for three years before they sacrifice themselves on the cross. So it makes sense why those things were given to him. It makes sense that those are kind of a picture of God. Now how the fullness of God was in Jesus and the fullness of God exists in Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit. You know, I mean, I don't need to try to just make a bunch of stuff up. Let's put it that way. So these three are one and you know, Jesus had the seven spirits and they're listed for us. And it makes sense how those things would be necessary for an earthly ministry. All right, how about this one? Go back to Revelation. Let's go to Revelation chapter six. Revelation chapter six. God's wrath. God's wrath and the book of Revelation regarding God's wrath, the number seven is everywhere. I mean, you think about it, you got Daniel's 70 weeks. Right, you got Daniel's 70 weeks of which we are waiting for what? We're somewhere in between the 69th week. We're waiting for the start of the 70th week. Right, in the midst of that 70th week. You know, we've got, well, at the beginning of the 70th week, we've got the seven seals that are open, right? In between the sixth and the seventh seal is gonna be the rapture at that point. And right after that, right after the rapture is when, you know, we see in Revelation chapter six, look at verse 17. It says, for the great day of his wrath is come who shall be able to stand. Talking about this is talking about, you know, God's wrath starting. And then what do we see? We see the seven vials. We see the seven trumpets that basically announce, you know, each vial that the trumpets and the vials match up in the Bible. Then we see the seven spirits of God. We see all these things, you know, in Revelation with the sevens. It just shows you the completion and the perfection of God's wrath. In Romans chapter 12 and verse number nine, I'll just read it for you. It says, dearly beloved, this is why we really don't have to worry. You say, you know, why is it important that God's wrath is complete and it's perfect? Why do I need to know that? You need to know that because in Romans 12, nine, it says, dearly beloved, avenge not yourself. Avenge not yourself, but rather get placed under wrath. For it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay it, say it to the Lord. You notice how it said the word wrath there. You know what God is saying in Revelation in Revelation 15, Revelation six and seven and all over the Bible when God is pouring out his wrath through the trumpets and the vials and he's telling us in Romans chapter 12 and verse number nine, he's saying, no, no, no. He's like, I literally just talked to a guy out soul winning about this today. It's like, look, we don't have to worry about this stuff. We don't have to worry about who's getting away with what and so and so did something. We don't have to worry about Jeffrey Dahmer getting saved. Okay, I mean, we don't have to worry. Look, a lot of people hung up about this. The reprimand doctrine is so important, it's ridiculous. And look, it's one of the stupid things Christians believe, Christians believe today. It's just like, oh, you know, anybody can get saved. It like it hangs people up from getting saved. It hangs people up from the gospel. It hangs people up because people are like, oh, you're telling me I can just, the guy literally said today, you tell me some guy can go into a school and shoot up 27 kids and then just trust in Jesus and you'll just go to heaven. No, that's not what the Bible teaches. And that person that did that because look, normal natural people do not struggle with that type of thing. We are all sinners, I told this guy. I'm a sinner, you're a sinner. I have foolish thoughts all the time. You know, we're gonna be sinners till the day that we die. You know what? I mean like, oh man, you know, going and shooting up a bunch of innocent people, that's not something that a normal person struggles with. Something has happened there and the Bible tells us what happened in Romans chapter one. It's very clear, but we don't have to worry about it because God is telling us in the Bible through this Bible study that I'm showing you that hey, my wrath will be complete. My wrath will be perfect. And that's what he's saying. He's saying avenge not yourselves. He's like, let that give place onto wrath and what, it's perfect, complete wrath. And that's why you see with that wrath, it's seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven everywhere because it's gonna be perfect, it's gonna be complete. God's not gonna, everybody that's got something coming is gonna get theirs. That's what it boils down to. Except us because we're not gonna get ours because we've trusted on Jesus and we are gonna be covered in that once for all perfect, complete sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But everybody else is gonna get what's coming. God's like, I mean, how silly is, I mean, look, I get it. I mean, I understand the anger of someone that would have lost somebody or had somebody hurt to somebody that was wicked or some terrible person that was a murderer or worse. But God is just saying, look, it's going to be perfect. It's going to be complete. And look, it's important. It is important that people know that. It is important to know that God has the ball on this one. There's all kinds of other sevens in the Bible. There's seven lamps of fire in Revelation chapter four. Again, there's seven churches in Asia that God's talking to in Revelation chapter two, chapter three, in Genesis chapter seven, there's seven of the clean beasts. It's not just, they weren't just two by two. The clean beasts, there was seven pairs of each kind of animals. Lovediscs chapter 25, seven times seven for the years brought you to the 49th year and into the year of Jubilee, which was to reset things and kind of forgive people their debts. In Job chapter two, this one's interesting. They sat down, it says, Job chapter two, verse 13, I'll just read for you. It says, so they sat down with him upon the ground. Job just lost everything. He just lost everybody, just lost everything. They sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights for his, and none spake a word unto him, for they saw his grief was very great. So he had seven days and seven nights of what? Of mourning. So it took him seven days and seven nights to complete his mourning process. Now go back to 2 Kings chapter four, and we'll finish up here. So we just see that just the Bible, I mean, Jacob was right, Jacob was right. Nothing is in the Bible by accident. So when you see things like this, where there's this, you know, Elisha comes and he raises this boy from the dead, he raises this boy from the dead, and all of a sudden this boy, he sneezes seven times. And you just know, just like, what does that mean? You know, what does that mean? And then you start looking into this and you see that it actually meant something. And look, just as the sacrifice, sacrifices of the Old Testament pictured the perfect sacrifice to come. The boy sneezing seven times, it pictures the Messiah to come. It pictures the perfect resurrection is what it pictures. So as this boy, look, this boy being raised from the dead is just, if it was just this boy being raised from the dead and we didn't have this little piece in the Bible, this is the beauty and the infinite nature of the Bible. If we didn't have this detail where it says he sneezed seven times, it'd just be some miracle in the Bible. But instead, he sneezes seven times and he's resurrected and it shows like, oh, here's a resurrection in the Old Testament. But you know what Jesus' resurrection was? It was the perfect resurrection. Because without the resurrection, we have no hope for our resurrection. Because Jesus' perfect resurrection is the first fruits showing that we will be resurrected as well, all right? Without the sneezing, it's just a miracle. That's the depth of the Bible. And that's why we need to look at these things and you know, read the Bible to your kids. Read the Bible to your kids and it's just, it's great the questions that they ask. But the number seven in the Bible, it's everywhere. I feel like I didn't do it justice. It's all over the place. But it just shows you what God is telling us in the Bible in all these places. Instead of saying, hey, I'm gonna preserve my word. He says, no, it's been purified seven times, meaning it's done, it's good, it's perfect, it's complete. Jesus' work, it's once for all, it's perfect, it's complete. My wrath will cover everything, it's perfect, it's complete. The creation, it's perfect, it's complete. By the way, seven, seven days, be thankful for the things that you have. Take a time, you know, take time to take a break and thank God every time that you eat. You know, that's what makes that meal complete. That's what makes that thing perfect when you appreciate and are thankful for the things that God did. So that's the number seven in the Bible. And every single time you read the number seven, that's the picture that God is trying to show you in that part of the Bible. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.