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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 four living creatures and the twenty-four Elders are holding golden bowls 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.

Be assured the Lord hears your prayers...

An angel appeared to Cornelius and said...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

This song is so powerful the saved will sing it again as mentioned in...

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

Then Isaiah writes for us to sing a new song...

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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