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Our church turned 161 today
I’m very excited to preach on this passage.
Of all the passages that I’ve studied since being here at Red Brick, this stands out as the one that changed my thinking and deepened my faith the most.
I’m very excited to preach on this passage.
Of all the passages that I’ve studied since being here at Red Brick, this stands out as the one that changed my thinking and deepened my faith the most.
It’s probably become one of, if not my favorite passage of scripture.
In fact, if you’ve been here for the last several messages I’ve preached, you’ll probably have noticed a theme of anticipation of the Lord’s coming.
I hope as we walk through it today, it will bring encouragement to you, that it will hone your purpose of life, and that it will empower you to keep fighting against sin.
it may challenge you to search your heart to see if you truly are a follower of Jesus.
Today we’ll be looking at (what I believe is) the culmination of the whole Bible
…the reason God wrote it all down for us in the first place
…the purpose for the great story of God’s redemption plan for his people
We talk about Creation, Fall, Redemption and Consummation…HERE in these 8 verses is the consummation of all human history.
Let’s look at and focus on 4 words
Summarize the hope of our faith
God has promised this, and we want him to make good on his promise.
4 simple words: God Dwells Among Us
if we expand it out a bit:
God’s inhabiting presence establishes the eternal utopian family we were created for.
God’s inhabiting presence establishes the eternal utopian family we were created for.
God Dwells Among Us
One word of caution:
IT’s NOT ALL GOOD NEWS!
It’s almost all good news!
Mostly Good News
But not all of it.
Let’s read Revelation 21:1-7
If I were to stop there, I may be tempted to do two things...
I may be tempted to believe that v8 doesn’t exist.
I may be tempted to mistake the essence of eternity.
Now we’ll get back to v8 near the end of this message, and we’ll start with the essence of eternity.
We can’t miss it.
It feels so nice to focus on the peace and tranquility of this eternal kingdom and miss that the main point is not the streets of gold, it’s God himself.
God’s inhabiting presence establishes our eternal utopian family.
Revelation 21:1-8
the end of this passage
BUT - I did something that many are tempted to do when reading it a funeral…I didn’t read v8.
I didn’t read the BAD NEWS!
Dwelling with the Father is the ultimate fulfillment of your life
Fellowship with the Father means eternal utopia and global identity
the end of this passage
Those who reject the righteous life of God’s children are separated from God in hell
What is the chief end of man?
To ‘glorify God and enjoy him forever’
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The Ultimate fulfillment of your life is to dwell with the Father.
we say this by saying ‘glorify God and enjoy him forever’
The culmination of human history/the Gospel/the cross IS fellowship with the Father.
THE POINT of church and bible reading and prayer is fellowship with the Father.
What is the chief end of man?
To ‘glorify God and enjoy him forever’
The New City Catechism asks “How and why did God create us?
God created us male and female in his own image to know him, love him, live with him, and glorify him.
We are creatures and will remain creatures who worship God forever.
v3 end
God remains as their God.
We don’t go into some limbo.
Life doesn’t cease after death.
We don’t get absorbed into this universal force.
God is God.
Man is still God’s creation designed to glorify him.
To make him famous.
We don’t add anything to God’s value.
We see him and declare that he is as great as he truly is.
It’s like if you experienced something as a kid, but as you grow up that same thing, unchanged, becomes far more meaningful and precious.
This happened to me a lot with hymns I sang as a kid.
***Jesus, I am resting, resting
In the joy of what Thou art
I am finding out the greatness of Thy loving heart
Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee
And Thy beauty fills my soul
For by Thy transforming power
Thou hast made me whole
Ever lift Thy face upon me,
As I work and wait for Thee;
Resting 'neath Thy smile, Lord Jesus
Earth's dark shadows flee.
Brightness of my Father's glory
Sunshine of my Father's face
Keep me ever trusting, resting,
Fill me with Thy grace
***
I didn’t even know what earth’s dark shadows could be when I was 10.
But when you experience deep loss, or incredible pain, or incurable sickness.
When something precious is taken from you.
When you beg God in tears to save a friend, and God brings you through it, your faith is strengthened, and becomes deeper and thick.
James talks about this that your faith is purified when it is tested…not before.
When we live with God, we will experience something of the same thing, realizing that we didn’t have the full understanding of his love and forgiveness.
In glory, situations in our earthly life that were difficult or confusing come into focus because we are with the one who ordained them all.
Now, before the new creation, we glorify God by obeying him and enjoying him.
Our work, done in thankfulness to God glorifies him.
our parenting, done for the purpose of raising children who love God, glorifies him
Everything you do in life, done in obedience to God’s commands glorifies God.
But our sin is constant and often subtle.
Our motives often mixed even in our most admirable deeds.
So often our lives are plagued with lust, or covetousness, discontent, complaining, laziness, disobedience, lying, etc...
We Christians hate that.
We hate that we can’t stop sinning.
We long for the day that our fellowship with God isn’t interrupted by our pettiness.
That day is coming.
Jesus promised in that we don’t have to worry whether or not this will happen.
Or whether it’s actually possible that we can be with God.
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