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1:1-20 - This is ‘the revelation of Jesus Christ’ (1).
It comes from Him and it speaks of Him.
Christ ‘loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood’ (5).
We rejoice in Him.
Christ is ‘coming with the clouds’ (7).
We must get ready for Him.
‘The revelation of Jesus Christ’ calls for our response.
It is not ‘for information only’.
We are to ‘pay attention to what is written in it’.
We are to ‘take it to heart’.
We are to ‘do what it says’ (3).
Christ reveals Himself to us.
Is it for our benefit only?
Is it just to make us ‘feel good’?
No! We are to share with others what the Lord is teaching us.
Christ said to John, ‘Write what you see’ (19).
Don’t keep it to yourself.
Share Christ.
Tell others about Him.
Tell them what the Lord has done for you.
Speak His words of love: ‘Come...and learn from Me’ (Matthew 11:28-30).
2:1-29 - Every church in every nation and every generation has so much to learn from ‘what the Spirit says to the churches’ (7,11,17,29).
Christ is to be our ‘first love’.
We are not to ‘abandon’ Him.
We are to ‘keep right on to the end of the road’ - ‘faithful until death’ (4,10).
We are to ‘remain true’ to Christ, pressing on with Him to a life of real spiritual growth (13,19).
Living for Christ will not be easy.
There are always those who make things difficult for God’s people (14-15,20).
Let your commitment to Christ be very definite: ‘I have decided to follow Jesus.
No turning back.
The world behind me, the Cross before me.
No turning back.
Tho’ none go with me, I still will follow.
No turning back’.
‘Will you decide now to follow Jesus?’: Say ‘Yes’ - and let there be ‘no turning back’ (Mission Praise, 272).
3:1-22 - There are some doors which the Lord must open - ‘I have placed before you an open door that no-one can shut’ (8).
There is a door which we must open - ‘Here I am!
I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone opens the door, I will come in...’ (20).
Christ is waiting for you to open the door of your heart to Him.
He waits with great patience.
He keeps on knocking.
He waits to hear your prayer: ‘Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.
Come in today.
Come in to stay’.
This must be your own prayer.
No one else can pray this prayer for you.
Open your heart to the Lord, and remember where your prayer really came from: ‘The Lord opened my heart...’ (Acts 16:14).
Open your heart to the Lord.
He will open new doors: ‘a great door for effective work has opened to me’ (1 Corinthians 16:19).
4:1-5:14 - ‘In heaven’, there’s ‘an open door’ (4:1).
Who has opened heaven’s door for us? - Jesus Christ: ‘He only could unlock the gate of heaven, and let us in’, ‘Jesus loves me!
He who died heaven’s gate to open wide; He will wash away my sin, let His little child come in’ (Church Hymnary, 241,418).
From heaven’s open door, we hear the voice of love.
Jesus calls us - ‘Come up here’ (4:2).
What happens when we respond to Christ’s call? - ‘At once I was in the Spirit’: ‘God sends the Spirit into our hearts’ (4:2; Galatians 4:6).
The Spirit fills our hearts with worship: ‘You are worthy, our Lord and God...’.
‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain...’ (4:11; 5:12).
Jesus invites us to catch a glimpse of heaven, to catch the Spirit of worship, to be filled with the ‘glory’ of God (4:8,11; 5:12-13).
6:1-7:17 - Christ invites us to ‘come’ (6:1,3,5,7) - and look at things through His eyes.
With Him, we look at earth.
With Him, we look at heaven.
Troubled world, tremendous worship - These are the things we see when we look through the eyes of our Lord jesus Christ.
Our world is deeply troubled.
Heaven’s worship is absolutely tremendous.
Of all our many ‘troubles’, the greatest is this: We are sinners, and none of us ‘can stand’ before ‘the face of Him who sits on the throne’.
Our earthly ‘troubles’ are nothing compared with this!
There is hope.
There is a way of ‘salvation’.
We can be saved through ‘the blood of the Lamb’.
If, however, we turn from Him - ‘the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’ - there will be no hope.
We will face ‘the wrath of the Lamb’ (4:16-17; 5:10,14; John 1:29).
Will you be saved - or lost?
8:1-9:21 - Real gold and fool’s gold - What a difference there is between the two!
In 8:3, we read about real gold.
In 9:7, we read about something which ‘looked like crowns of gold’.
There is a difference between the real thing and the counterfeit.
There is a challenge for us here - in connection with both salvation and service.
In Matthew 7:21, Jesus warns us, ‘Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord”, will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven’.
In 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, Paul invites us to think seriously about the ‘quality’ of the ‘work’ we’re doing for Christ.
Is it work which will prove to be of real, lasting value?
- ‘gold, silver, costly stones’.
Is our work superficial?
Does it lack any real depth?
- ‘wood, hay, straw’?
Build on Christ: ‘Be careful how you build on Him’.
10:1-11:19 - ‘Take the little scroll and eat it.
It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey’ (10:9).
We are to feed on God’s Word - the difficult parts as well as those passages which make us feel good.
God’s Word speaks about judgment as well as salvation.
Before we can rejoice in ‘the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ’, we must hear about His ‘wrath’: ‘The time has come for judging the dead’ (15,18).
‘Sweet and sour’: We need both for a balanced diet of God’s Word.
We need the ‘sour’ - ‘It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God’ - as well as the ‘sweet’ - ‘God so loved the world...’ (Hebrews 10:31; John 3:16).
The ‘sour’ - ‘Flee from the wrath to come’ - creates a hunger for the ‘sweet’ - ‘the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world’ (Matthew 3:7; John 1:29).
12:1-13:18 - In Genesis 3:1, we read of ‘the serpent’.
Here he is again - ‘that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan’.
He is a powerful enemy.
He ‘leads the whole world astray’.
He is a determined enemy.
‘Day and night’, he is busy, accusing God’s children.
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