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Bryon’s Favorites - Revelation 21:1-7 - “He Is Making All Things New” · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Hey, welcome back to Tabernacle Talk.
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  Today we are in a one week hiatus from our study through
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  Isaiah, a little bit of a busier week for me.
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  And so today we are going to be in Revelation chapter 21 verses
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  one through 7. We've been looking at some of my
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  favorite portions of Scripture. And so we looked at Romans 81
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  and two. We looked at Philippians chapter
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  2 verses 5 through 11. And then today we are looking at
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  the very end of the biblical story, the fulfillment of
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  everything that Scripture was about.
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  And we read this. I, I want to mention this as
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  well. Revelation is the final exam for
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  those that have gone through and learned the lessons from the law
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  and the prophets. That is the Old Testament,
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  especially the major and minor prophets there, as well as what
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  we learned through the life and ministry and story of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. And so sometimes if you are
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  scared of Revelation, I promise you it's just because you need
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  more time in the rest of Scripture because those give you
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  all of the tools that then you can bring it to revelation.
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  I've been highlighting some of that even as we've gone through
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  Isaiah, Lord willing, in the future as but we go through like
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  Ezekiel or Jeremiah, if the Lord tarries, we will see more and
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  more of those at play. And so I'm looking forward to
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  that. But here is the wonderful joy,
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  the fulfilment, the consummation of creation is what we read
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  here. Then I saw a new heaven and a
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  new earth for the 1st heaven and the first earth had passed away
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  and the sea was no more. All right, what's going on?
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  Remember, back in the beginning God created what the heavens and
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  the earth. And so here the there's a new
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  heavens and new earth, new skies and the land, the heavens, the
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  place where the spiritual beings are, the earth, the land where
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  the physical beings are. And that is made new.
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  What was tainted and destroyed by sin is reworked.
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  It is redone. And when it says here the sea
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  was no more, I've highlighted many times in Psalms.
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  We've even seen it a few times in Isaiah.
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  You'll see it more in Isaiah in a couple of weeks.
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  The sea was viewed as like the chaos waters that were always
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  trying to destroy everything on the land.
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  The flood is kind of one picture of this that really stuck around
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  in the memories of the peoples in the ancient Near East, that
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  there was the recognition that what the sea does, especially if
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  it has free rain, it's going to destroy everything.
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  And so here what's being stated is not necessarily that there
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  will be no more oceans or no more Mediterranean Sea.
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  It is saying the thought of chaos, destruction, the end of
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  life that is gone. You are safe.
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  There is no there is nothing more to fear, if you will, from
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  the natural world or even from the evil side of the spiritual
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  world. There is nothing more to fear.
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  Now, I want to be very clear. I believe that that is the
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  picture that's painted all throughout Scripture.
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  I would encourage you look up the Bible Project, both video on
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  the Chaos Dragon as well as the podcast series that they did
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  walking through that picture all through the Old and New
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  Testament. It could be, and I want to give
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  the caveat here, this could be taken very literally and there
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  is no more see. I don't know why there would be
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  no more see, but I want to give that as an option from from a
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  very literal reading of the passage.
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  So what was stained with sin is gone now something new and
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  better has come. Verse #2 I also saw the holy
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  city, the new Jerusalem that we talked about in Isaiah 2, coming
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  down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned
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  for her husband. So if you will, yes, right now
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  Jesus is preparing a place for us, but the place is not
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  permanently in heaven. The goal was never for us to
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  abandon planet earth. The goal is for heaven to come
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  to planet earth. And so here, the new Jerusalem,
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  God's perfect city, coming down like a bride adorned for her
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  husband. Verse #3 Then I heard a loud
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  voice from the throne. Look, God's dwelling is with
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  humanity, and he will live with them.
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  Emmanuel, God with us, they will be his peoples, and God himself
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  will be with them and will be their God.
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  What a joy God's desire is not just that we would live with
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  him, but that he would live with us.
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  And what a joy for that day when we can walk or run or teleport.
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  I don't know what will be entailed on that day, but to go
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  see the crucified and risen Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, sitting on
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  his throne, that all of the Saints from all of the ages will
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  be there. And as Jesus sits there, he's
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  not sitting in judgement. He is sitting enjoy to be with
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  us. We will be his peoples.
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  He is our leader, our our guide, the one that we worship.
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  He is the one that provides for the need of all and He will be
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  our God. That one that, that one that we
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  can trust, that one that we can rely on and pray to.
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  And he will physically be there. And I can't imagine the, the
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  beauty, the majesty, the glory of that day, the overwhelming
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  joy, even thinking about it now as I regularly pray for people
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  who experienced the greatest hardships of life and to think
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  of that day when we will be happy.
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  Verse #4 There he will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
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  Death will be no more grief, crying and pain will be no more
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  because the previous things have passed away that there will be.
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  And again, this is very poetic language, so it could be saying
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  metaphorically there's no more grief, crying or pain that the
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  old way of interacting with the world where we're in danger, we
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  experience heartbreak like those types of things do not rule or
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  destroy us anymore. How that new life works with
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  Jesus on the throne on earth, I don't know all of the details.
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  This could be very literal to say there will never again come
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  a moment where we breakdown in tears.
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  We'll never again stub our toe or puncture our skin.
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  It could very well be that there is no knowing the precise nature
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  of even as you consider the Old Testament and then it's
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  fulfillment in Christ and, and the different prophecies and
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  things, those that were anticipating the Messiah, they
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  missed it the first time because they assumed some things about
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  Scripture that weren't true. And so I always want to be
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  careful to, if you will give some weight and give some
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  options to some different things to say, hey, this could be
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  speaking poetically or this could be very literal, but I
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  want to give both of those options there.
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  The important part is that God himself is our comfort, our
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  protection, our joy. He is wiping away the tears from
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  our eyes. I think I mentioned this a few
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  man maybe months ago now at I don't even know what it would
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  have been. Maybe a Sunday school class or
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  something. I love, you know, if you're
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  watching this, listening to this, I love you.
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  Unless you're Samantha, I don't know that I'm wiping away the
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  tears from any of you all's eyes.
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  I'll be like, hey, you, you got that covered.
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  But I have wiped away the tears from Samantha's eyes, from Brian
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  and Evelyn's eyes. Like there's a level of
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  familiarity, of fatherly, loving care that extends from me to
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  them that I would do that. What a joy that this God, this
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  one who is reigning, this one that brings a heavenly city down
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  to earth, that we would live there.
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  He wipes away the tears from our eyes that there is personal
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  involved care from God to you. You will not just be one person
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  among, you know 10 billion or one person among 30 billion.
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  You will be personally cared for and loved by God on that day.
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  What a joy that all of us want to be seen and known and loved
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  and to know that God cares about me and on the day where He is
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  glorified and He is King over all the earth, that He will wipe
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  away my tears is such a comfort. Like I tell you guys, but my
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  heart is just overflowing. What a day that will be when my
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  Jesus, I shall see him, and I look upon his face, the one who
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  saved me by his grace, when he takes me by the hand and leads
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  me to the promised land. What a day, glorious day that
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  will be. Verse #5 Then the one seated on
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  the throne said, look, I am making everything new.
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  He also said, right, because these words are faithful and
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  true. So John is taken in by this
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  wonderful scene that is taking place.
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  God says I am making all things new.
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  So the earth and heaven that were tainted by sin, God makes
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  new Jerusalem that was tainted by so much sin and even the
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  death of the Messiah. Jerusalem is made new US people
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  that were broken by sin. God made us new.
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  We are a new creation in Christ Jesus.
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  And so God is making all things new and then he goes, hey, John,
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  like write this down because this is all trustworthy.
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  This is faithful and true. I think actually, so I, you guys
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  know this. I use the Christian standard
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  Bible, but they're like tagline for their translation is
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  faithful and true and it's taken from this particular verse of
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  Scripture. He says in verse number six.
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  Then he said to me, it is done to tell the study it is
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  finished, it's completed. What God did was enough, it was
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  sufficient, it was overflowing and it is it is inevitable.
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  It's not that Jesus might reign or that you might be saved.
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  It is that the work has been accomplished and all that awaits
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  us is the day when, if you will, the switch goes from old to new.
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  He says I am the alpha and the Omega, that's the beginning and
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  end letters of the Greek alphabet.
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  He says I am the beginning of everything and I am the end of
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  everything. He says the beginning and the
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  end. I will freely give to the
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  thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
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  We read about that in Isaiah and we read that this is what the
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  Lord will do. This descendant from the line of
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  David will give the people this living water.
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  There is the thirsty receive this water of life.
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  If you desire life in Christ, you can receive it.
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  You don't have to earn it. You don't have to pay for it.
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  It is the free gift of God to every person that would say I
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  want that life. I want to know God to be loved
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  by God, to be a part of his people.
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  God will give that to you. Verse #7 The one who conquers
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  will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be
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  my Son. And you might ask, OK, well, how
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  do I, how do I conquer? What does it mean to conquer
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  from this book? Well, we read that even at the
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  end of chapter 12, it says this, that they overcame him.
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  Verse #11 They conquered him. All right, So we want to
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  conquer. What does it mean?
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  They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of
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  their testimony, for they did not love their lives to the
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  point of death. So stand firm in your faith.
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  Continue to declare Jesus His word his way and through the
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  blood of Jesus and our profession of faith, our
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  confession of faith in Christ and what He has done, that we
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  have owned, if you will, that blood for ourselves, that we
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  have claimed Christ's lordship and salvation over our lives,
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  those are the people that conquer.
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  You don't conquer through being holier than everyone else.
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  You don't conquer through being the biggest giver or the most
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  faithful servant. You conquer through what Jesus
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  has done and by the word of your testimony.
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  If we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, believe in
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  our hearts that God has raised him from the dead, we will be
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  saved. What a joy.
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  He will be our God and we will be His son or daughter.
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  Thanks for tuning into this episode.
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  These passages of scripture just give me such joy and life,
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  prompt me to worship, and I hope that it does the same for you.