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Revelation chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Revelation chapter 5, let us pray.
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  Our Lord God Almighty, here we are today.
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  God, we lay down at your feet today.
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  Father, Lord, we grab a hold of the hem of your garment.
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  Today we come running in boldly before the throne room of grace.
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  God, you ripped the veil from top to bottom.
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  So, Lord, we come in to the holiest of holy places.
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  God, we open the door up and allow you to come in.
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  Father, us and you and you and us abiding God, I pray Holy
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  Spirit, you'll speak to us today.
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  Help us to keep the name of God reverent.
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  Help us to keep it separated and holy.
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  Help us not to use it lightly and flippantly.
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  You are everlasting to everlasting divinity.
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  You are eternal Father. You're the only uncreated and
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  high and lifted up above everything.
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  You see it all, Lord. You're the God who sees us.
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  You are the God healer. You're the banner over our
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  lives. You are our provider, God,
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  You're the Lord over it all and Lord, we come and we worship you
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  in spirit and truth today, God, I pray that you will highlight
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  the text today. Jump off the page today, God,
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  jump into our hearts and into our minds, and let it become
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  part of our internal dialogue each and every day as we
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  meditate upon you and upon your face and upon your words, God
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  and upon your ways. Lord Jesus Christ, you are our
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  all sufficient sacrifice. We thank you for clothing us in
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  your righteousness and your purity and in your holiness.
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  Thank you, God Almighty, for making us holy, because you are
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  holy, and not because of anything that we have done,
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  Father, but because of everything that Jesus Christ did
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  on the cross for us, Lord. Lord, we acknowledge that you
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  are supreme. We acknowledge that you are El
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  Elyon, the Most High God. Lord, I pray for your Kingdom to
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  come upon this earth, Lord, just as it is there in heaven.
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  Lord, I pray for your will to be done here on this earth, Father,
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  just as it is there in heaven. Give us this day Our Daily
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  Bread. Let us come and dine sumptuously
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  with you on the flesh of Christ. Let us drink the blood of Christ
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  today in remembrance, Father of what He did for us 2000 years
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  ago upon that cross and God got the Father.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
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  sins. Lord, I pray that you will
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  forgive us for all the many times that we have trespassed
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  and transgressed. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you'll give us the strength to forgive those who have
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  trespassed against us. Lord, help us not to hold on to
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  negativity and criticism. Help us not to hold on to the
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  things of the past. Help us to be a forgiving
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  people. Lord, I pray that you'll help us
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  to see you rightly, to fuel us for the journey, to give us your
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  mind, the mind of Christ, Lord, for such a time as this.
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  Lord, I pray for protection from the enemy.
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  God, form a hedge around us of the angelic beings.
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  God, I pray that no weapon formed against us shall prevail
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  and prosper. Lord, I pray that we will be
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  more than conquerors, that everywhere we go today there
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  will be a force field of protection because we are more
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  than conquerors. And in Christ Jesus we are
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  victorious, Lord, and he won the victory.
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  He holds the keys to death and hell.
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  And God, we do not have to live in fear.
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  Give us the peace, Lord, that only you can give us, not as the
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  world gives. Lord, we just pray that you'll
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  be honored and glorified and magnified today by the reading
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  of your text. Hide me, hide my words and hide
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  my thoughts. It's all about King Jesus.
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  I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit fill us, Maranatha,
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  the Spirit and the bride says come in Jesus Christ.
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  Holy, precious, powerful, awesome name, I pray, Amen.
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  Well let's start in verse one and I saw in the right hand of
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  him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the
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  backside sealed with 7 seals. What's he talking about here?
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  Well, God Almighty Yahweh, everlasting the God of Israel,
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  sits on the throne in heaven and in His right hand with all power
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  He holds the title deed to earth.
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  He has written front and back. There's not one square inch on
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  this scroll for anything to be added to.
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  God has pinned down what will happen and there is no created
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  being that could ever thwart the plan of God.
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  And that is what is contained in this book is He has written of
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  all the things that will happen, this titled deed that Adam
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  squandered and Jesus rightfully won back for the perfection of
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  creation, to deal with the sin, to deal with the evil, to deal
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  with all of the opposition to a loving God who sits in heaven
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  and rules on high. And aren't we thankful that God
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  is good and that good is God? Aren't we thankful that we serve
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  a loving God who only wants what is best?
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  And we were the ones who squandered it.
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  We were the ones who allowed the sin in our lives to take over
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  and to be cancerous in our bones and to actually get us to follow
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  sin and self and to seek the things of this world over a
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  loving, graceful, peaceful, magnificent God who created us
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  and who loves us and who desires relationship with us.
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  And here in His right hand, the powerful right hand of God, He
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  has sealed it with 7 seals, friends.
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  And if you go back and you study history, any time that a last
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  will and testament was written in the Roman Empire, they would
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  seal it with these wax seals with the signet ring of seven
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  friends. And it what it would do is it
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  would authenticate the document. And here John is seeing in God's
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  hand this 7 sealed scroll that has all of the plans for the
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  future. And if you go back and look at
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  the prophecy in Daniel, he told him to seal these things up for
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  a later time, that it wasn't time to be revealed.
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  And here we see it being revealed here in the Book of
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  Revelation, and He's going to unravel the scroll and we're
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  going to get to see what are the plans for mankind, for the
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  redemption so that we can be in His presence forever more,
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  purified, clean, whole, holy, and glorified in His presence.
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  Verse 2 And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice,
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  who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals of it.
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  So perhaps this is Gabriel, this mighty Angel who is coming and
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  he is calling out with a loud voice and he's saying who is
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  worthy to come and to loose the seals.
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  Verse 3. And no man in heaven, nor in
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  earth, nor under the earth was able to open the book, neither
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  to look thereon. So he's making a loud
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  proclamation to all of the inhabitants of heaven, all the
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  inhabitants of the earth, and all of the inhabitants of the
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  underworld. And he's saying that there is
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  anyone who is worthy to come and open the scrolls, to open this
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  scroll and to loose the seals, to come forward and let's see
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  what happens. No man in heaven, nor under the
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  earth. And where on the earth was able?
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  4 And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open to read
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  the book, neither to look thereon.
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  So John is weeping because it seems as if there's no one who
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  is able to turn the tide. There's no one able to actually
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  be able to deal with the sin debt, to deal with the evil that
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  is in the world that is tearing us apart limb by limb, friends,
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  all the evil that we have had to deal with since Cain killed
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  Abel. And you know, this is for John
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  and it should be for us. This is the most horrific thing
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  in the entire universe is that the evil that is on this earth
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  should not be so. We were created to be in union
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  with God. We were created to walk in the
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  cool of the day. We were created friends to have
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  communion with Him and to love and to be loved and to be loved
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  on and to know our worth and our dignity.
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  And you look around today and you see nothing but pollution
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  and toxic sludge. You see nothing but greed and
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  vanity. You see nothing but miserable
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  countenances on people who do not know their worth.
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  They do not know that they were made in his image.
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  They do not realize that they have dignity because they are
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  God's masterpiece made in his image.
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  Imago Dei friends. And you see so many people who
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  they buy the limelight, they buy all of the flash, they buy the
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  lie, and they're LED into the slaughter.
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  They're LED down these corridors of evil friends.
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  And they don't realize it until the trap snaps.
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  They don't realize it, friends, until it's too late.
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  But here's the promise that if there's breath in your lungs,
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  it's not too late. You can turn it around today by
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  getting in a relationship with God Almighty through His Son
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  Jesus Christ. And that is what is being
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  planned out. And God sat and wrote it all
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  down before He even started it. He knew how it would end.
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  He knew how it would go. And because of the amount of
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  glory that is going to bring God, He let it go on.
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  And He knows your very heart. He knows the things that you're
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  going through. He knows your thoughts, He knows
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  all the things that you've been through.
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  And He's asking you today to surrender.
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  Surrender it all to Him. He made a way, He made a plan,
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  and His name is Jesus Christ. Put your faith in Him today, and
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  be saved. 5 And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not.
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  Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has
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  prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals
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  thereof. So one of the elders, the
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  representatives of the church and of Israel, they come and
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  they tell John. They say, Do not weep.
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  Look, it is Jesus Christ who is the lion of the tribe of Judah.
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  He is the root of David, and He has prevailed.
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  He lived a perfect, sinless life and went willingly to the cross.
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  No one took his life, but he laid it down for us for this
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  moment right here. 6 And I beheld and lo, in the midst of
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  the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the
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  elders stood a lamb, as it had been slain, having 7 horns and
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  seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into
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  all the earth. So here we get to see the lion
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  and the Lamb, culminating in one person, Jesus Christ.
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  He is the shepherd King, He is the servant leader.
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  He is all power wrapped up in meekness, friends.
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  And that is why you see two different facets of Him.
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  The Lamb is how he came in the first advent.
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  The lion is how he is coming back, friends roaring, putting
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  the enemies under his feet like a footstool.
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  And you can see here that this freshly slain Lamb is in heaven,
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  and his wounds are still prevalent.
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  His wounds are still fresh friends, as a reminder of the
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  sacrifice that God who put on humanity, came and died, lived a
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  perfect life, and died as a substitute for you.
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  He took on your sin so that you can have His righteousness and
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  stand before a holy God one day. And God will not see any of the
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  sins that you have ever committed, are committing, or
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  will ever commit. He will only see the blood of
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  this perfect Lamb covering you from the top of your head to the
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  soles of your feet. And blessed is the man whose
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  sins will never be counted against him, friends.
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  And that is your story, if you will place your faith in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ today. And you can see here that these
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  7 horns speak of strength, friends.
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  This is the strength of Jesus Christ.
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  And you see these seven spirits of God that has been mentioned
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  many times. This is the Spirit of the Lord.
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  This is the fear of the Lord. This is the wisdom and
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  understanding and counsel and might and knowledge.
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  Friends, the seven spirits of God, these are the attributes of
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  the Holy Spirit, and you can see the triune nature of God
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  Almighty and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. 3 And 17 And he
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  came, and he took the book out of the right hand of him that
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  sat on the throne. So Jesus Christ goes and takes
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  the book out of God's hand. 8 And when he had taken the book,
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  the four beasts and the 24 elders fell down before the
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  Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of
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  odors, which are the prayers of the Saints.
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  Did you know that your prayers are an incense in the nostrils
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  of a holy God? Did you know that when you pray,
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  God listens and he answers? Because the veil has been torn
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  from top to bottom, you can be sure that all of your prayers
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  will be answered. And God hears your prayers and
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  they are incense unto him. Far be it from us to withhold
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  our prayer life from God who desires it.
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  And you can see here that these 24 elders and the beast are
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  falling down and giving him his due reverence and due honor and
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  due worship. And that is our call today.
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  I pray that you have caught a glimpse of this throne room
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  scene and it has caused you to worship Him.
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  Worship Him creation. Do not withhold your due honor
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  and glory, and worship unto the Lamb, the King of kings, and the
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  Lord of Lords, and the servant of servants.
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  Friends. 9 And they sung a new song saying, You are worthy to
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  take the book and to open the seals of it, for you were slain
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  and have redeemed us to God, and by the blood out of every
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  kindred and tongue and people and nation.
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  So you can see here they have started a new song in heaven
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  because of what Jesus Christ did.
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  And you can see here that all of the angelic hosts and all of
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  heaven is centered around Jesus Christ and what he did.
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  He has all honor and all authority and all power.
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  Friends, He is our Redeemer and that is what the shift is here
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  in chapter 5. You saw in chapter 4 that He is
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  the creator of all things. And then you see here as it
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  flows so beautifully into chapter 5, you see God as the
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  Redeemer of all mankind. And there will be
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  representatives of every people group, every nation, every
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  tribe, every tongue. Every language friends, that is
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  God's plan. This is not just hyper fixated
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  upon the Jews as they would like to believe, but when they come
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  to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, they will see
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  the Gentiles coming in in droves and it will cause them to have
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  jealousy. And then they will acknowledge
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  that Jesus Christ is their long-awaited Messiah and they
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  need not wait on another. And it is by His blood, friends,
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  that we are covered. 10 and have made us unto God, kings and
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  priests, and we shall reign on the earth.
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  Highlight it, underline it, mark it, circle it, write it in a
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  journal, put it in the margin of your Bible.
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  Friends, listen to what He says to you.
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  St. He has made us unto our God,
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  kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.
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  So during the thousand year reign of Christ He's going to
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  invite us to rule and to reign with Him.
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  And we cannot even begin to imagine what that will look
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  like. But it is plain as the nose on
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  your face. It's black and white.
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  It is here for you to read and to meditate upon.
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  And everything that is happening in your life today is part of
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  the sanctification process that God is allowing in your life.
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  To pull out all the dross and the impurities.
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  To pull out all of the things that don't belong, and to make
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  you more and more and more like Jesus Christ each and every day.
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  And far be it from us to become hardened and stiff necked and
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  obstinate. Far be it from us to grieve the
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  Holy Spirit, far be it from us to sear our consciences.
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  We must break up the fallow ground and allow the light in
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  and allow the rain of the sun to come in and to put his finger on
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  the things in our lives that have no eternal value, the
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  things that were squander our squandering our inheritance in
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  friends. We must remain malleable and
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  supple. We must remain those that are
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  able to have the strength to step in to what God has for us
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  and not to live our lives for self or for Mammon not to live
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  our lives floating about friends.
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  We must lock in with the Lord and allow Him to lead us in all
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  the arenas through the little bit of lifetime that we have,
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  and to remain in Him and He and us, and to produce much fruit.
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  Friends, that is God's plan for your life.
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  Abstain from sexual immorality, friends.
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  Get out of the perverseness, friends, step in to the holiness
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  of a reverent God and work out your salvation with fear and
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  trembling before Him as His Shekinah.
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  Glory comes in and reigns upon you, friends, and showers you
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  with His presence. 11 And I beheld and heard the voice of
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  many angels round and about the throne and the beast and the
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  elders, and the number of them was 10,000 * 10 thousands and
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  thousands of thousands. A myriad friends is countless
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  and this is all of creation proclaiming Jesus Christ is
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  Lord. He is the centerpiece of it all
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  friends. Everything is hinged and hung
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  upon Him. Yeshua our Messiah and the
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  Christ. He is our way, He is the truth,
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  and He is life, friends, and if we want to come unto the Father,
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  we must go through Him, and that is for every man, woman and
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  child on planet earth. There is not another way, He is
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  the only way. 12 saying with a loud voice.
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  Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and
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  riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and
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  blessing. Jesus Christ deserves all of
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  this praise and honor. He did nothing wrong, friends.
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  He came as a little baby. He lived a perfect life. 12
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  years old, He's in the temple and he's teaching them.
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  Then you see him launch his earthly ministry after living in
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  obscurity, He launches his earthly ministry and he's the
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  friend of sinners. And the harshest things he had
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  to say was towards the religious people who thought that they had
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  it all together and they hated him because he rubbed up against
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  what they thought God was like. And he turned over the tables
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  and he drove them out, and he exposed all of their evil and
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  their hypocrisy and duplicity, and he told the sinners to go
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  and sin no more unless something worse would come upon you.
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  And Pilate had every opportunity to let him go.
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  Judas tried to throw the money back because he had betrayed
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  innocent blood. There were many opportunities
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  for Jesus to go and to get away from those that were coming to
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  arrest Him. He could have called down
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  legions of angels to come and to rescue Him, but He did not.
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  He went willingly for you, and if you will accept Him, He will
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  come in and He will cover you with His Holiness and His
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  righteousness, His purity and His innocence.
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  And God will only see the blood of Christ covering you.
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  He will not see the sins that you have committed.
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  You confess them to Him, you repent of them, turn away from
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  them, receive forgiveness and step in to the righteousness of
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  Jesus Christ and live on fire for Him because He is worthy of
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  it. Pray to Him every day, give Him
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  all due reverence and honor, and watch how all of the things
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  start fading away. All of these childhood trauma
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  events, all of your financial woes, all of your health scares,
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  everything starts fading away in light of His presence.
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  When He comes in and He showers you with the Shekinah glory,
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  nothing else matters and it is all about Him.
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  Eyes like fire and hair like wool.
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  The voice of the many multitudes, the two edged sword
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  coming from his mouth, putting every opposition under his feet.
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  He is Messiah. We'll end on 14.
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  And the four beasts said Amen. And the 24 elders fell down, and
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  they worshipped him that lived forever and ever.
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  There's no grave you can go and visit.
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  He's not there. Jesus Christ lives.
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  He resurrected on the third day and ascended to the right hand
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  of God, and he is waiting for the proper time to come.
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  And in between time, and in the meantime, we look up and we see
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  our redemption is drawing near. We see the leaves on the fig
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  tree and we know that summer is near.
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  We fill our lamps with the oil, which of the Holy Spirit.
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  We trim our Wicks. We do not grow despondent.
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  We are not distraught. We are confident in Christ
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  Jesus. We are seated with Him in
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  heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Get in the boat, friends, there
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  is judgement coming upon the earth, and we must walk with Him
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  like Noah and get in the boat. And the boat is in Christ Jesus,
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  and He is more than able to snatch us away before the hour
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  of temptation which is coming to test all the inhabitants of the
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  earth, which is what we will be reading about from here forward.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know that I sure have.
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  We could meditate upon it for a lifetime, dissect it, digest it.
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  Let it become part of your DNA. Let it become part of yourself.
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  Let it become part of you. Let the Word of God saturate
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  your life. Hide it in your hearts.
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  The Word of God is alive and active and it became flesh and
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  His name is Jesus. Be blessed today.
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  Stay prayed up today. Get in the Word, stay in prayer,
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  pray without ceasing. Take every thought captive.
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  Make it obedient unto Christ Jesus.
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  Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything.
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  And when God reveals things to you, they'll line up with
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  Scripture and then ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength
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  to be able to obey the hard things of God, which will
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  produce the perseverance and the character and the hope inside of
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  us. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.