6.4.51 11.18.2018 Beasty Boys Rev 13-15
The Empire Strikes Out • Sermon • Submitted
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▾ Entice: I don't like slasher movies, and I don't like "slasher" theology. Yes we need to understand the empire which confronts us, its raging opposition to God and
Entice: I don't like slasher movies, and I don't like "slasher" theology. Yes we need to understand the empire which confronts us, its raging opposition to God and His Christ. But our major focus should not be on the beasts that defy us but on the Christ who delivers us. In a nutshell—that is where most preaching from the book of Revelation fails the Church.
His Christ. But our major focus should not be on the beasts that defy us but on the Christ who delivers us. In a nutshell—that is where most preaching from the
• We read about the War upon the Saints…and we become depressed.
book of Revelation fails the Church.
• We read about the War upon the Saints…and we become depressed.
• We read about the beast from the sea, the beast from the land and the number of the beast…and we become obsessed.
• We read about the beast from the sea, the beast from the land and the number of the beast…and we become obsessed.
Engage: Like a movie or a great play our common history unfolds scene by scene.
▾ Engage: Like a movie or a great play our common history unfolds scene by scene.
1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.
4 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
11 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,
14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
15 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
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Expand: The scaly, smoky emperor of this age. Make no mistake. He is a beast. But we know this beast and the tools he would use to oppress us.
• Expand The scaly, smoky emperor of this age. Make no mistake. He is a beast. But we know this beast and the tools he would use to oppress us. Political power.
Expand The scaly, smoky emperor of this age. Make no mistake. He is a beast. But we know this beast and the tools he would use to oppress us. Political power. Social engineering. Economic blackmail. Spiritual deception. The sneaky snake from the Garden may have become a dragon but his tactics are the same. He deputizes his collaborators to antagonize, persecute, and dog the faithful because he is beat. He is conquered by the lamb. His henchmen are no secret. Everyone knew who 666 was. Like Hitler or Stalin or Mao Tse Tung Nero was a proverbial figure for evil. Whatever the time or place Empire is always the same.
Expand The scaly, smoky emperor of this age. Make no mistake. He is a beast. But we know this beast and the tools he would use to oppress us. Political power. Social engineering. Economic blackmail. Spiritual deception. The sneaky snake from the Garden may have become a dragon but his tactics are the same. He deputizes his collaborators to antagonize, persecute, and dog the faithful because he is beat. He is conquered by the lamb. His henchmen are no secret. Everyone knew who 666 was. Like Hitler or Stalin or Mao Tse Tung Nero was a proverbial figure for evil. Whatever the time or place Empire is always the same.
Social engineering. Economic blackmail. Spiritual deception. The sneaky snake from the Garden may have become a dragon but his tactics are the same. He
Political power.
Political power.
deputizes his collaborators to antagonize, persecute, and dog the faithful because he is beat. He is conquered by the lamb. His henchmen are no secret. Everyone
Social engineering.
Social engineering.
knew who 666 was. Like Hitler or Stalin or Mao Tse Tung Nero was a proverbial figure for evil. Whatever the time or place Empire is always the same.
Economic blackmail.
Economic blackmail.
Spiritual deception.
Spiritual deception.
The sneaky snake from the Garden may have become a dragon but his tactics are the same. He deputizes his collaborators to antagonize, persecute, and dog the faithful because he is beat. He is conquered by the lamb. His henchmen are no secret. Everyone knew who 666 was. Like Hitler or Stalin or Mao Tse Tung Nero was a proverbial figure for evil. Whatever the time or place Empire is always the same.
• Excite: The job of the Church is to resist the beast without adopting his strategy or playing by his rules. Compromise is as bad as cowardice. God's People have
Excite: The job of the Church is to resist the beast without adopting his strategy or playing by his rules. Compromise is as bad as cowardice. God's People have always been called to resist the ever-shifting, alluringly deceitful idols of our age.
always been called to resist the ever-shifting, alluringly deceitful idols of our age.
Explore:
rust the weapon which God has given us to overcome the beasts which attack us.
We must trust the weapons God has given us to overcome the beast.
We must trust the weapons God has given us to overcome the beast.
• Explain: Using language and images drawn from the OT prophetic tradition Jesus uses John's visionary message to remind us to…
Explain: Using language and images drawn from the OT prophetic tradition Jesus uses John's visionary message to remind us to…
▾ Body of Sermon:
1 Proclaim the Eternal Gospel.
1 Proclaim the Eternal Gospel.
▾ 1 Proclaim the Eternal Gospel. 14.1-13
1 Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,
3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,
5 and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
6 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
7 And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”
9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
10 he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
• 1.1 Identity
1.1 Through our Life...
1.1 Through our Life...
Identity
Identity
• 1.2 Purity
Purity
Purity
Integrity
Integrity
1.2 By our Message
1.2 By our Message
• 1.3 Integrity.
1.3 Integrity.
1.3 Integrity.
• 1.4 Proclaiming the Gospel.
Proclaiming the Gospel.
Proclaiming the Gospel.
• 1.5 Announcing Judgement.
1.5 Announcing Judgement.
1.5 Announcing Judgement.
Announcing Judgement.
Announcing Judgement.
• 1.6 Rest for our Labors.
Resting from our Labors.
Resting from our Labors.
▾ 2 Praise our Righteous God. 15.1-4
2 Praise our Righteous God.
2 Praise our Righteous God.
1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
3 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
• 2.1 The war against God's people does not cripple us. Our endurance does not weaken us. Our vindication does not define us. It is our Song—the song of Moses
2.1 The war against God's people does not cripple us.
and the Lamb. The Song of liberation and resurrection. The song of redemption and restoration. The song of our eternal destiny which ultimately gives us the
Our endurance does not weaken us.
Our vindication does not define us.
It is our Song—the song of Moses and the Lamb.
It is our Song—the song of Moses and the Lamb.
The Song of liberation and resurrection. The song of redemption and restoration. The song of our eternal destiny which ultimately gives us the power to resist the Idols of this age
power to resist the Idols of this age.
2.2 In the book of Revelation you are never far from the intersection of worship and lament, challenge and celebration, delivery and destruction-the preaching of both victory and vindication.
• 2.2 In the book of Revelation you are never far from the intersection point of worship and lament, challenge and celebration, delivery and destruction-the preaching
2.3 The Lamb. Lord Almighty. King of nations.
of both victory and vindication.
No beast can stand against our God!
No beast can stand against our God!
• 2.3 The Lamb. Lord Almighty. King of nations. No beast can stand against our God!
The Song Remains the Same
The Song Remains the Same
▾ The Song Remains the Same:
• Nearly every sermon from the book of Revelation should sound about the same. Hopeful, victorious and triumphant. John's visions tell he same story over and again. From creation to consummation the beast has been in the chaos business. But the Lamb and His cross, by His death and resurrection has delivered us from the fear of the beast who intimidates us and alienates us-Chaos is nailed to the cross!
consummation the beast has been in the chaos business. But the Lamb and His cross, by His death and resurrection has delivered us from the fear of the beast
who intimidates us and alienates us.
• The message of the Gospel and the song of the Lamb is simple because of the cross Chaos collapses. Our God Reigns.