When Evil and Sin Were Defeated
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8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang a new song, saying,
“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Theme/ Central Idea:
The Holy Spirit reveals to John the celebration of victory over evil and sin by the sacrifice of God's Lamb.
Introduction:
I’d like for us to consider the celebration of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God in a way that will renew our faith.
I know we get weary and bored, yet Revelation 5 gives us a different picture as it looks back in the history of men to the day that evil and sin were defeated...
I know there are many of us who feel that our prayers do not get answered.
Many if not most in the world believe that the existence of evil means that there cannot exist a good and loving God.
In the Church far too many have left their first love, they are indifferent to their savior and have lost their zeal.
That is not the picture we find in Revelation 5:1-9 “1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” 3 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, 4 and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 5 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” 6 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living …”
The Answer to Our Prayers
The Answer to Our Prayers
The four living creatures and the twenty-four Elders are holding golden bowls of incense which are the prayers of the Saints.
8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
We have been praying for a deliverer of all that besets us.
The answer to that prayer if the Lamb of God.
2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
Be assured the Lord hears your prayers...
An angel appeared to Cornelius and said...
4 And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
Because He has heard our prayers we are given a precious gift of a revelation through John the Apostle
A revelation which celebrates a past event on the timeline of men,
celebrated in the future in the heavenly realm where time is no master
let’s look at this event...
Future’s View of a Past Victory
Future’s View of a Past Victory
Prophetic foreshortening is like focusing in on a future event at the exclusion of all other events on the timeline.
In the past before the event of Jesus sacrifice the prophet Isaiah prophesied our salvation...
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
700 BC this prophecy points to the world’s greatest event.
Atheist’s overlook it
Agnostics ignore it
Indifferent mankind is lukewarm to it
In present time during Jesus lifetime
the one overlooked proclaims
the one ignored confirms
the one which many refuse to be moved by
says the following...
28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Some 670 years later after Isaiah, Jesus says the time is at hand for His sacrifice
In the spiritual realm the Apostle John is given a glimpse of a heavenly scene
where a past event is celebrated in what is future while time still exists
John writes this from the vision He was given...
9 And they sang a new song, saying,
“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
This salvation that comes by the sacrifice of the Lamb will deliver peoples from every tribe; language; people and nation
This event causes those who are the subject of His eye to sing a new song...
We Sing a New Song
We Sing a New Song
Anybody here got a jam, you know when that songs comes on and you scream, “that’s my jam!”
Anybody here got a song that reminds you of a time you feel in love?
In the old days us guys would make a mix tape or a playlist of love songs for the ladies we were trying to
Anybody here have a song that you hear which reminds you of a significant time in your life?
In the Old Testament a “new song” was always the expression of praise for God’s victory over the enemy.
Exodus 15 - Song of Moses - sung because of the victory over Pharaohs army
1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying,
“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
This song is so powerful the saved will sing it again as mentioned in...
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.”
Judges 5 - Song of Deborah - sung after the victory of God over the Canaanite oppressors of her day
1 Samuel 2 - the Song of Hannah - sung be her when God opened her barren womb and gave her Samuel as her son
Psalms of David - sung due to the deliverance from Saul and the Philistines
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and put their trust in the Lord.
1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth!
1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things!
His right hand and his holy arm
have worked salvation for him.
1 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the godly!
Then Isaiah writes for us to sing a new song...
10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the end of the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,
the coastlands and their inhabitants.
Saints and friends the sacrifice of the lamb
Is the answer to our prayers
It is celebrated in our past; present and future
His Sacrifice causes men to sing a new song
When Evil and Sin were defeated, that’s my jam and I should be singing it all day long!!!!!
Conclusion
This revelation of the past event, “When Evil and Sin Was Defeated” should stir us in a new song.
One that praises the Lamb of God and the salvation that victory makes available.
God has heard your prays and has gathered them up, they are not unattended.
We ought to worship Him as the revelation on the Isle of Patmos given to John demonstrates
You and I and all the world need to do what is required to make that salvation our own...
Let me suggest what you need to do from God’s Word to get started...
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