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Intro:
When was the last time you saw something that changed your life?.......
Movie or tv show?
Child being born?
Loss of a family member...
9/11
The Apostle John saw something almost 2000 years ago that changes our current circumstances and gives us hope for eternity!
What we are going to see in the opening chapter are three things.....
A Blessing, A Message to the Church, and a Vision of Jesus......
A Blessing
ONLY Revelation gives us a blessing as the reader, hearers, and obeyers!
a.
The unveiling - Apocalypse..... revelation..... of Jesus..... Revealing Jesus himself.
b.
God gave this message to His servants through an angel.... to John..... to us this morning!
This is the blessing of the book -
Read it aloud
Hear it
Obey it and Keep it
The only book of the Bible that has this blessing
It’s not about wealth, health, and prosperity we are after in this blessing....
It is a deeper love and obedience to God… to life the fullest life in his kingdom now and forevemore!
The Blessing from God..... brings us nearer to God and prepare our hearts for the fullness of life in his kingdom.
- William Osborne
That’s are committement this morning!
- We do?
A Message to the Church
John is on Patmos - Why? How?
John was exiled there by the Roman government because of his proclamation of the gospel.
By Domitian.....
Call him god....
Convicts were allowed relative freedom to roam the small island
guarded by Roman soldiers against leaving.
- Got Questions.org..... John is most likely 65-90 years old!
God’s plan was not thwarted by John being on Patmos...... Stop preaching the Gospel!...... God sends a vision of the end of the world and God’s new heavens and new earth!......
Message to the 7 churches - Most likely a circuit to go through..... they were not that far apart in modern day Turkey....
It was written for them.... and also for us today!
7 is a sign of completion....
Tribulation and persecution....verse 9
A Message of HOPE for the future.... verse 11....
That is the intent of this entire letter..... write it down and then go read it to these churches..... read it aloud today as an direct application to that!
The Messenger source:
The trinity!
God the Father - Who was and is and is to come
The Holy Spirit - however you interpret that....
Jesus is the Messenger who:
Letter in the mail...... you know what is marketing trash.....
Jesus, God in human flesh… fully God, fully man.... King of Kings, Savior, 100% access and knowledge of God, Fully Glorious.....
In everything and everywhere in life........
He is and will always be!......
faithful witness - A good witness has a strong testimony....
firstborn from the dead - Jesus lived a perfect life, died on the cross, and rose again....He paved the way!
King of Kings - No king is above Jesus
Loved and freed us - He is our Savior
Coming on the Clouds - Not a carebear here.... a glorious God coming to his people!
Alpha and Omega - From beginning of all things to the end of all things and everything in between!
Who was and is and is to come - Jesus is eternal....
He always was, he is, and he will always be!
Will you listen and open this letter?
That is what is happening for the churches who hear this and that is what is happening to us this morning!
A Vision of Jesus
But he does share a vision which is refracted through the lens of Old Testament theology - Ian Paul
7 lampstands and 7 stars in his right hand..... verse 12-13.... and verse 16 the stars.... verse 20....
7 churches are the lampstands
7 angels are the messengers, the pastors of those churches
**** Children in the room....... you are learning this right now!
Who is in control of everything?
God is in control of everything in heaven and on earth.
Nothing is outside of God’s plan.
A Vision of Jesus - The great Revealer - Daniel 10..... so here in Rev 1.....
Long robe and sash - Jesus is the perfect heavenly High priest...... Revelation 4, EX 28, Leviticus 8
Hairs are white, white as wool - John’s words of the transfiguration…
His eyes - Piercing like lasers into the life of the church!
His feet - burnished by fire....... a picture of his judgment and the Great High Priest at work!
His voice - like the roar of many waters....like a jet engine!
His two edge sword mouth - His word coming to speak truth and judge
Face like the sun - Holiness on display!
His glory revealed!
I have the keys of death and hades - Jesus has all authority over life and death.
John’s Response
John.....Fell down dead
Genesis 17:3 Abram
Joshua 5:14,15 Joshua
Ezekiel 1:28 Ezekiel
Daniel 8:17 Daniel
Matthew 17:6 Peter, James, and John,
Acts 9:4 Paul
Think of John’s Response and those in the Bible....
Now think of your own goodness.....
How often do we come into God’s presence and neglect his perfection?
How often do we only see Jesus as this warm, loving, hug instead of the image we see here?
I am convicted this week that I must fall down in my heart and submit myself to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords...... whom the whole Bible is about and the whole of existence is about....
and so we go to our knees and prostrate our hearts before him!
v.17 - he reached out his right hand.... nail pierced wholes remain.... the right hand that held stars in his hand..... and he touches John.... Fear Not....
What better way to celebrate this act of mercy and grace shown to John and to us.... than the Lord’s Supper.....what better worship than this.....!
Bread -
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We reflect this morning in light of what we have heard in the book of Revelation........
Even so Come.... Come soon.... we long for the day we eat this with Jesus in Heaven....
You may eat
Blood -
We pray.... Come soon!
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