Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

So we're in a series called The Four Living Creatures. It's something that I know you've been wanting to hear for years.

I will say, it's kind of fun, don't you think? Just say it anyway. Just, yeah, it's past, right? It's fun.

Okay. And where these four living creatures are in revelation and in Ezekiel.

And there are four creatures and each creature has four faces. The face of a man, an ox, an eagle, and a lion.

And they follow the spirit, wherever the spirit goes, the creature goes. But it never turns. It goes in that direction with that face then facing wherever the spirit is going.

But the other thing it does is it goes higher and higher. That's what we're told. It's lifted up.

So God takes us higher in our understanding of certain things in Scripture. And so we talked about the man.

And the man represents Jesus, the Son of Man. Jesus Himself referred to Himself in the Gospels 82 times as the Son of Man. Some of those are repeats.

But He still decided to put it in there in those four books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 82 times.

So Jesus is the Son of Man, the face of the man refers to the man. Some people will say it refers to righteousness because it's Jesus. Some will say holiness.

I used it to say grace. Some say grace and truth. Here's the point. I know it refers to Jesus or refers to everything Jesus is.

But what I believe God is doing here in this series is highlighting an aspect of each face to take us higher as a church.

And He is zeroing us in. For instance, when I talked about grace, I could have said I'm going to preach on grace and subconsciously.

Some of you might have had a little moment think, well, I know about grace, Pastor Robert. And then all of us can have this.

All of us can drift during a message or drift during a conversation with our nevermind.

So, but all of us can drift. I was going to say spouse and I thought that's probably not a good illustration.

But the point is because God zeroed us in on something in that first message, it was own giving ourselves grace for failures after we've been saved.

It was like it kept us all engaged. It was like, wow, I hadn't thought about that. So then last week I talked about the ox.

The ox represents servanthood. And yet God took us to a specific part of servanthood, which is humility.

I would like to say this. And I think he's taking us higher in our area of servanthood and humility.

I want you to think about this. You could be serving someone like a boss or someone in your life, but you're actually serving yourself.

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