When You See Jesus Face to Face

When You See Jesus Face to Face Revelation1:9-20 February 7, 2021 People Who Saw the Lord: • • • Isaiah 6:1-5 Ezekiel 1:28; 3:23 Daniel 10:8-9 The Big Idea: Christians have a spiritual family (brothers & sisters, mothers & fathers). This fellowship centered around Jesus, is called to endure to the end – in suffering and service. Jesus rules over everything we face in life and death. Whatever your circumstances or need, Jesus is enough. Revelation1:9-20 (ESV) 1 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.” 9 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man , clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, [Daniel 7:1314] 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. 12 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. 17 TIMELESS LESSONS o Jesus Rules Over Our Troubles § “tribulation” o Jesus Rules Over His Kingdom § Daniel 7:13-14 o Jesus Rules Over Time § § “patient endurance … in Jesus” “the first and the last” o Jesus Rules Over Death and All That Comes Afterward § “the keys of Death and Hades” o Jesus Rules Over His Church § He holds the “stars” and stands in the “midst of the lampstands” Two Things Jesus Will Do For You: 1. Jesus will touch you with His hand (v. 17) 2. Jesus, knowing what you fear, will come to be with you in that moment (v. 17)