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Good Morning, well I just wanted to take a moment this morning and tell you all thank you for being so gracious and allowing my family and I to take some quality time off together.

It truly was a blessing to be able to play with them and spend time at the beach with them because of the opportunity to be alone with them.

I also wanted to mention that I appreciate very much everyone who went and served the less fortunate yesterday at LIA it was a blessing we fed over 50 people who were homeless or had either fallen on hard times and it truly was a blessing to be able to love on them and serve them and share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them.

I tell you what there have been alot of things swirling through my mind on what I would like to preach, and there are many ideas that are worthy of study, that I know many of you would need.

However this morning I just wanna give the Lord Jesus Christ praise for all He has done.

I want Him to be glorified to the utmost this morning.

Not because everything is perfect but because He is worthy.

Please turn with me in

I truly believe if you were aware enough to see God’s provision and blessing in your life just yesterday, there would be enough material in just one 24 hour period to praise Jesus for for the rest of eternity.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus there’s just something about that name, Master Savior, Jesus like a fragrance after the rain; let all Heaven and Earth proclaim, kings and kingdoms will ALL pass away but theres something about that name.

There is just nobody like Jesus Christ our Lord.

As a matter of fact living this life seeing the wickedness and the evil that takes place all around us it is a beautiful thing to know that King Jesus still rules, King Jesus still reigns and praise be to God HE IS ON MY SIDE AMEN!

He gave Himself for us, He gave Himself to us, that He might live His life through us.

Praise His wonderful name.

If you have your Bible let’s look together in the book of Revelation,

The fifth chapter of Revelation you find a Heavenly scene will you stand with me for the reading of God’s word.

Revelation 5:1

Let’s pray

“Father God we thank you for this opportunity to worship Your Son Jesus and we ask right now Lord that you would open our hearts and our minds to this picture of glory recorded in the only letter you ever wrote thank you for the Bible speak through your Holy Spirit in Jesus name we pray… Amen.”

I want to speak with you this morning on this subject WORTHY IS THE LAMB.

The word lamb is used 28 times in the book of Revelation, it is the name that is used more than any other name concerning the Lord Jesus Christ.

the word throne is used 46 times in the book of Revelation, and then youll find the word worthy used 4 times in this text.

Truly the Lamb who is on the throne is worthy.

It doesn’t matter what your facing this week or month, it doesnt matter what you walked in here or what trial you have coming down the pike you can know one thing the LAMB, the LORD JESUS CHRIST IS ON THE THRONE AND IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED.

You say well, preacher I dont really feel like praising right now I just got alot going on… can I be so bold as to tell you when times are tough and trials come in various forms THAT IS EXACTLY WHEN YOU NEED TO PRAISE THE LORD!

There is a blessing available according to revelation 1:3 for all of those who read and study and obey the book of Revelation.

If you break down the book it can be broken down into section and youll find it mentioned in

Seen- chapter 1

Are- Chapter 2-3

The things which shall take place after this- chapters 4-22

JOHN PHILLIPS SAYS- “In chapter one we see God in chapter 2-3 we see grace, in chapters 4-18 we see government, and when we go to 19-22 we see glory.

I want you to know this morning that we serve a GREAT God!

The apostle John has been given a vision of what Heaven is like and we get a picture of it in 4-5 in chapter 4 we see the worship of God the Father because He is the creator.

Until you get creation correct you probably don’t understand salvation, because in chapter 5 we see Heavenly worship and its all about redemption.

Out of the 404 verses in the book of Revelation 278 have references or allusions to the OT.

So as we study this we will see this, I have 4 points in my sermon.

I’m going to make Misty Solomon groan here because she doesnt particularly like it when I use alliteration.

But here are my four points this morning

Sealed Scrolls, Sobbing Searcher, Sufficient Savior, Surrendered Saints

The Sealed Scroll

John writes and he says he saw someone and he said that in their right hand on a throne they had a scroll written on the inside and on the back sealed with 7 seals.

Now first thing I ask is this what is this scroll?

Options:

1.

Will and testament

In the romans day the romans would write contracts and it had to be witnessed by 7 witnesses and there had to be 7 seals.

2. Reference to

Is this a reference?

3.

4. The title deed to the Earth

I believe this last option is right on.

Truly this is the title deed to Earth but I like Warren Wiersbe said about this: He said: “Even though it is a title deed to the Earth you cannot disallow that it is not also a will and a testament.

I’ll tell you why, listen to me carefully, do you know what happened in the fall of man?

In the beginning mankind was given the right to rule, but when mankind fell into sin that right to rule was given to Satan.

So what happened is this the first Adam forfeited what the blessing of God was for all creation but then there was a second Adam who was better than the first His name was Jesus Christ.

This is the title deed to the earth AND THE EARTH IS THE LORDS!

There is a sealed scroll which represents what the Lord owns and here in Revelation as the seals are being opened Jesus is beginning the process of taking back was rightully his in the first place before man gave it away.

Now let me tell you something there can be a number of people who can claim they have rights to property but there is only one who by law has the authority and right to that land, it is the one whose name is on the deed.

Notice these in Heaven who were searching were not searching for someone willing to open the scroll, they were looking for someone worthy.

Someone who had the authority and right to open the deed to planet Earth.

Notice then with me

The Sobbing Searcher

All of a sudden John begins to sob, verse 4 says “i wept much” why because no one was found worthy to open the book!

The realization is this if no one is found worthy to open the book, then the right to rule and reign as preists and thats who you are if you are a child of God will never be enjoyed because someone has to have the right to open the scroll so that we can have our inheritance given to us from our Heavenly father.

Which is to rule and reign in a New Heaven and a New Earth for all of eternity.

The reason John wept is the same reason all of us weep, because Adam and Eve went there to the grave of their son Abel who was killed by his own brother cain, and he wept and said is there any hope, to reverse this curse of sin!

They had been expelled from the paradise God had given them, I canhear the cries of those Israelites in Egypt when they touched God with their prayers because they were afflicted and affected by the bondage of Satan a type of satan who was pharoah.

I can hear some of you weep, because no matter how hard you work there is still bondage in your life, you are a slave to sin.

No matter how hard you try you don’t feel as though you can be free, it haunts you, even now as I speak you are thinking about areas of your life where you know sin exists and it torments you and you feel so inadequate to be called a Christian.

There is a realization that IF SOMEONE IS NOT FOUND WORTHY THEN WE ARE ALL DOOMED!

Where did they look?

Revelation 5:

Well they looked all over the Earth, they looked under the Earth which means they went to the abyss, they went to sheol, they even visited where there are some demons that are so wicked their held captive but they could find no one.

Well they looked all over the Earth, they looked under the Earth which means they went to the abyss, they went to sheol, they even visited where there are some demons that are so wicked their held captive but they could find no one.

WHY IS JOHN SOBBING SO?

The problem is that someone does not meet the remedy and provide the anidote were all doomed and destroyed if no one is worthy.

The Sufficient Savior

All of a sudden one of the 24 elders… who are these elders?

These are the men 12 prophets from the OT and 12 Apostles from the NT who represent those who have died redeemed by the grace of God.

So one of these men speak up.

Revelation 5:

He says wait a minute dont cry theres a lion over there!

He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah which takes us back to

Where Jacob gave the scepter to Judah and said out of you Judah will come a King!!

Genesis

You read

you’ll read where God has promised us a King and His name is the Lord JESUS CHRIST!

He is from the root of David

in we find in verses 1 and 10 that Jesus Christ is from the root of David and then for a good study one of my favorite psalms is psalm 110 this is most quoted OT passages in the NT and you find that Jesus used it in to cross up the pharisees when He said:

“When and who will the Messiah come from?” they quickly replied from David! why because they had read psalms 110, God had promised the Savior King would come from king Davids bloodline.

Jesus said in why then did David from the days of old called me a Son but before he called me a Son he called me His Lord… you see what happened is that hundreds of years before Jesus was bron David wrote a prophecy he realized that Jesus was my Lord before I existed and yet he will be born after I die....

the elders are looking for someone to open the title deed, now listen carefully some of this is below the surface and you wont understand it if you dont.

This is all about finding someone who is worthy to open this 7 scroll deed, and once these 7 (number of completion) is opened Jesus will reclaim what is His and evil will be eradicated.

This takes us to a picture found in the book of Ruth, who is called the kinsmen redeemer.

Now who is the kinsman redeemer?

He is someone who must be next of kin, willing to pay the price and able to pay the price.

I love the story of Ruth, who was ruth she was a picture of you and me.

She was a gentile, she was a Moabite she was from the bottom of the barrel in her day and time, she had nothing and she was destitute which is exactly where we are if we have not been saved.

But God allowed a famine to tak eplace in Bethlehem and there was a couple who were living in a backslidden condition they left Bethlehem they journeyed over to Moab, and they had two boys, these two boys married Moabite girls, the husband died and the two boys died and a lady named Naomi is gonna come back to Bethlehem and there’s a girl by the name of Ruth and she told Naomi wherever you go I am going with you, and they landed in BEthelhem and the town had a welfare program.

Where they were gleaning in the field and if you didn’t have a way to provide for yourself, you would pick up what those harvesting the crop would leave behind for the poor and needy.

So these two women who are broke and destitute having no hope do what they are allowed to do follow behind those harvesting and picking up the scraps left behind by the gracious farmers.

all of a sudden a man named Boaz shows up, and he says to his supervisor hey I noticed a good looking girl out there.