A continuation of our sermon series: The Best is Yet to Come. Revelation 13:11-18. Thank God that by his hand he has written your name in the Lamb’s book of life.
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Bottom line: Knowing the Truth—really knowing—sets us free and leads to peace in a world of uncertainty, deception and falsehood.
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Bottom line:
God protects his people against all satanic opposition and his people proclaim the good news that the kingdom of God is near until it’s here. He does this as he keeps his salvation promises to his people.
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Bottom line:
God will protect his people against all satanic opposition, and
They will proclaim the good news until the kingdom comes.
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My Bottom line:
Obedience is an expression of faithful love.
Tie in 3 applications:
Listen - written and living word
Love - God and people (6:5)
Lead others - who? From inside out (6:6-9)
Hand impression in clay
Heart - compass that points to true north
Bottom line:
With his authority to speak, his presence to embolden, and his word to proclaim to the nations, Jesus recommissions his church in the tribulation to multiply disciple-makers around the corner and around the world.
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Bottom line: God‘s judgment is horrific and only those who God seals (who repent and believe) will be protected from it.
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A continuation in our study of Revelation - "The Best is Yet to Come". Bottom line: We pray because our prayers change things—sometimes mercifully; sometimes justly.
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This parenthetical chapter between the 6th and 7th seals takes the time to share this truth that God seals his people. Therefore, they do not need to fear God’s judgment for he will protect them from them.
I. The sealing of the servants of God on the earth. (7:1-8)
II. The singing of the servants of God in heaven. (7:9-17)
Bottom line: We sing because we’ve been sealed.
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Bottom line: We must prepare for the end of life and the end of the world the same way: as if living and dying for Christ was worth it. And ordering our lives accordingly. Pastor Darien Gabriel walks us through Revelation 6:1-8 and the reality of martyrdom both in the early church and now. This sermon is one of the most important you will hear as it relates to the effects of the gospel and what it means to follow Christ no matter what.
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Last week: Jesus worshipped as Redeemer
This week: Jesus worshipped as Righteous & Just Judge
Our need: Grace and truth from our creator-redeemer
Bottom line: In light of our need for grace and truth in a world of hurt, let’s proclaim and embody Jesus where we live, work, and play.
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Revelation 5 teaches us that Jesus is in control of the past, present and future of world history; that Jesus has taken over. This equips us to be able to live and die well. Knowing the future—how it all ends (we win!)—changes our whole perspective on life...if you believe it.
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There are certain things about the future that we don’t know and that we are not supposed to know. However, there are other things that you can know about the future and that makes a real difference to your life now. Today we see why the echo the world needs to hear is from God through his people. That is worship.
Bottom line: Be the echo the world needs to hear from God through his people.
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Our series is “The best is yet to come” as we walk through the prophetic apocalypse that is the Revelation of the Risen Christ, a circular letter to the early church—and to us today.
Bottom line: Jesus calls us to fully rely on him instead of ourselves. Our self-reliance makes him want to puke.
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Part 9 of our series on Revelation: The Best is Yet to Come . This sermon from Pastor Darien is from Revelation 3:14-22 and is titled “What You Don’t Realize Can Kill You.” Need: Due to it’s enormous affluence, the Laodicean church was vulnerable to self-reliance. We, the American church, need to hear Jesus’s words to this church and evaluate ourselves in light of them. Main Point (Akin): Churches that lose sight of their dependence on Christ for all things are deceived and useless, but Jesus graciously promises healing to all who will rely on him for their every need. Main point (Hamilton): Jesus calls on the church at Laodicea to rely on him and his resources rather than their own. Outline (Hamilton): 3:14 Jesus is the true witness 3:15-17 Laodicea’s self-reliance 3:18-20 The counsel of the true witness: Rely on Jesus 3:21-22 Hear the promises that the Spirit speaks.
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This week’s title: “Being a Great Commission Church”
Our series is “The best is yet to come” as we walk through the prophetic apocalypse that is the Revelation of the Risen Christ, a circular letter to the early church—and to us today. My prayer is that you’ll be strengthened, comforted and encouraged through this word today.
Tension: We must evaluate our church and ourselves to see if we’re being faithful to the Savior, the gospel, and the great commission for God rewards those who are.
Though we may be modestly influential culturally, the church that is faithful to the Savior, the gospel, and the great commission will be rewarded by God.
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Series: The Best is Yet to Come
Sermon: Keep Your Testimony Fresh
Passage: Revelation 3:1-6
Teacher: Todd Luce
Jesus' church is alive and God is shaping you into what you aren't yet in this age of the Spirit in accordance with the Father's plan for all the nations ... remember how you have received and heard, then be ready to share what God is doing in your life now ... keep your testimony fresh!
Repent from the Tolerance of Sin | Revelation 2:18-39. If we want to rule with Jesus in the future, we need to be faithful to Him in the present. Remember, in the case of Thyatira, -Tolerance is not love, it is unfaithfulness
Though we are cultural outcasts now, or ridiculed now…we will rule. If we’re not outcasts now because of our faith, or ridiculed now because of our faith, then maybe we look too much like the culture.
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There were times in the life of our family when our girls were tempted by friends and family to try something new and truly enjoy life. Usually, alcohol or sex encouraged. Our young people especially deal with this kind of temptation on a daily basis. The temptation to compromise what we know is the wise, pure path the Lord Jesus would encourage us to follow.
Pride is the attitude that makes us vulnerable to compromising with sin.
In the meantime, the enemy tempts us to pursue sinful pleasures that promise much but never deliver what they promise. Sin never pays.
False teachings like the ones that the church in Pergamum were embracing lead us towards idolatry and immorality; towards compromise with promises that never deliver. This is the danger the church today faces.
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We are in Revelation 2:8-11 and the focus is on the letter to the second church in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Revelation is the revealing of Jesus and God’s plan for everything! Jesus shares 3 things He knows what the believers are in the midst of life in Smyrna: 1) Affliction, 2) Poverty, 3) Slander Don't fear what is to come. Be faithful. The second death will not harm the followers of Christ. The life worth dying for and the life worth living for! Be Faithful to the Point of Death. Application: Pray for the persecuted church. Check out Fox's Book of Martyrs. Visit persecution.com and pray for those who are suffering.
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