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Fifteen years ago Priscilla and I attended the graduation of our niece from college - that great bastion of academia — the West Virginia University !
We met in a wonderful auditorium and were regaled by speaker after speaker with humanist, anti-God, occasionally blasphemous speeches.
So I am sitting fuming.
And Priscilla was afraid that I would do something unseemly - shout lier or something like that.
So after the diplomas were awarded, and the ceremony was about to end, the WVU choir came on stage.
Upon the dismissal, this great choir began to sing.
And as I am standing there glowering, suddenly I began to melt, a smile came to my face, joy flooded my heart, I began to pump the air.
Why?
Because of what the choir sang.
What did they sing?
If they were following the speakers of the evening, they should have sung Frank Sinatra’s “I did it my way”.
But NO.
What did they sing?
Handel’s Messiah !!
I know that they were trying to be cute — Hallelujah we graduated...
But the words they were clearly, powerfully, wonderfully singing were -
|: For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! :|
Where did these lyrics come from?
Our Scripture this morning -
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
But that is not all — From Revelation 11:15
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Story of David the Bully.
I will never forget David climbing down out of that tree, with tears streaming down his face - and the three of us watching with that invigorating sense of revenge!
Of course, now I know that I was sinning.
Not only by what I did, but especially the motive of selfish revenge that drove us on.
As adults, we have out grown this, haven’t we?
Although sometimes I think that Christians view this book of Revelation as an adult version of “David up the tree”.
“At last we get revenge on our enemies!”
Oh, it is true, this book is a book of judgment on sin, evil, wickedness; and that in a serious manner.
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
|: Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! :|
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
From ;
|: King of kings, and Lord of lords, :|
KJV (1) The Revelation [unveiling] of Jesus Christ …
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
What I took away from this at first my thought was about Balaam and his donkey.
When Balaam would not prophesy, God spoke through his donkey (note I did not use the KJV).
And when the PROFESSORS of WVU would not profess the truth, God spoke through the WVU choir!
(I am not comparing the WVU choir with donkeys....)
And He shall reign forever and ever,
|: King of kings! and Lord of lords!
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And He shall reign forever and ever,
King of kings! and Lord of lords!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
What I took away from this at first my thought was about Balaam and his donkey.
When Balaam would not prophesy, God spoke through his donkey (note I did not use the KJV).
And when the PROFESSORS of WVU would not profess the truth, God spoke through the WVU choir!
(I am not comparing the WVU choir with donkeys....)
What I took away from this at first my thought was about Balaam and his donkey.
When Balaam would not prophesy, God spoke through his donkey (note I did not use the KJV).
And when the PROFESSORS of WVU would not profess the true, God spoke through the WVU choir!
(I am not comparing the WVU choir with donkeys....)
And the more I thought about my experience, the real lesson was that - God has the last word.
And then building on God has the last word is that God always wins in the end.
(I could have entitled this sermon “Are you tired of winning???”)
What do we learn about this?
God has the last word.
God always wins.
And that is what our Scripture teaches us today.
Why does God win in the end?
Well because He is God.
But our scripture today from answers the question why God wins and how God wins.
And to get an orientation to that answer, lets step back a bit and ask, what is this book all about?
But what is this book all about?
Look at verse one –
Look at the first verse of Revelation –
KJV (1) The Revelation [unveiling] of Jesus Christ …This book is all about Jesus Christ.
Christ as the Savior and Lord.
The Law and the Gospel.
I want to take you this morning into this great book.
And to show you its central purpose - not to predict time and place - but to teach spiritual lessons
We will move from a more carnal sense of the text to a spiritual grasp of the great truth presented here.
In this last half of chapter 19, we have a marvelous sketch of a mighty conflict, in which the most high God, in the Person of his Son, goes forth to war and victory.
Now, it might seem strange that God is going to war.
We probably have reason to believe that God could, if He pleased, terminate in a moment all that is opposed to His infinitely holy nature.
No war needed!!!
But He does not see fit to do this.
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