1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,880 Amen. What a blessed morning indeed it 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,240 is. I'm going to ask you to go ahead 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,400 and turn in your Bibles to the first chapter of the of the Book 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,480 of Revelation. We're going to start today at 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,000 verse 7. Thank our sister Karen for that. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,040 Very gracious welcome to everybody. 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,760 I too, welcome everyone that's here today. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,320 Let's just pray and get into the Word of God this morning. 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,560 Amen. Father, we do thank you for this 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,200 day. Every day is a wonderful day, 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,440 Lord, because you have made it. You created it, Lord, and though 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,560 every day may not look the same, every day might not be the same. 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,440 We come with different challenges. 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,760 It comes with different afflictions, and sometimes it 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,760 comes with highs and lows. It can come with mountaintop 16 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,040 experiences and sometimes valley experiences, Lord, But you are 17 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,800 good all the time. You are faithful all the time. 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,360 And we thank you, Lord, for the things that you provide for us. 19 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,840 We thank you for this house, Lord, that you've given us to be 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,240 able to worship together. And we thank you for the body of 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,600 believers who fill this house, Lord. 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,680 We thank you even as the song says, Lord. 23 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,000 We just thank you, Lord, for your son Jesus Christ. 24 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,200 Where will we be without your Son Jesus Christ? 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:31,920 Lord and Father, this morning we ask for Your anointing to be 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:37,360 upon each and every one of us. As we come to hear Your word, 27 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,200 Your truth. As we come to hear you speak to 28 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,760 us, Lord, we gather to hear from you. 29 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,400 So I pray that you would use these lips, Lord, that you would 30 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,840 stand in this body. Think with this old mind. 31 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:04,440 Help me, O God today, strengthen me today in Jesus name I pray, 32 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,759 Amen. So as we were in, we're going to 33 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:10,479 continue in the book of Revelations. 34 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:14,360 We're going to be starting picking up here in verse 7. 35 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:19,200 And before we do that, you know, one of the things that John does 36 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,000 in this section of the introduction of the Book of 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,200 Revelation is that he gives us a very strong dose of Jesus 38 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,240 Christ, a strong dose. So already it's one of my 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,920 favorites. Thank you so much for the song, 40 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:34,360 sisters, because that was so apropos. 41 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,360 I couldn't keep my eyes dry back there singing that song. 42 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,840 And now let the weak say I'm strong and let the poor say I am 43 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,400 rich, not because of anything we did, but because of what he has 44 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,880 done for us. Amen. 45 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,280 So we remember that as we go through the rest of this, this 46 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,520 book and, and, and, and just as a review, we I'm just going to 47 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:03,040 read again what he says to us, what John says to us back here 48 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:08,640 in the 1st chapter of Revelation when he talks about Jesus 49 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:10,400 Christ. And he starts that right there, 50 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,480 verse 5. He says in Jesus Christ, the 51 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:21,280 faithful witness, the first born from the dead, the ruler over 52 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:27,200 the kings of the earth, to him who loved us and washed us from 53 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:34,160 our sins in his own blood, and has made us kings and priests to 54 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:41,040 his God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and 55 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,520 ever. Amen. 56 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:48,080 And then in the very next verse he says, Behold, he is coming 57 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:54,240 with clouds, and every eye will see him, even they who pierced 58 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,120 him. All the tribes of the earth will 59 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:02,320 mourn because of him. Even so, a man or so let it so 60 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,880 or so be it or let it be so. Before we go into this and begin 61 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:13,200 to pick this out, I just want to mention how John throughout the 62 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,920 scriptures have talked about Jesus Christ and his deity. 63 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,519 But there's some things that actually leads up to this 64 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:23,320 particular verse, if we can kind of connect some dots. 65 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:28,880 For example, John was there with Jesus when Jesus was talking to 66 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,000 them about leaving them about dying. 67 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,400 And then he would, he would come back again and, and, and he 68 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,760 said, I'm coming back to get you, but I, I am going to be, I 69 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,160 am going to be crucified. I'm going to, I'm going to be 70 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,200 killed by the hands of men and, and, and then he sees that their 71 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,760 hearts are beginning to to fail them as a result of that. 72 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,480 So he says, let not your heart be troubled. 73 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,240 And he's saying the same thing to us, you know, as we as our 74 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,840 hearts begin to sorrow sometimes because of the the things that 75 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:02,520 we deal with and the things that we have to go through as we're 76 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,240 waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to come back. 77 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,560 He says to us, Let not your heart be troubled. 78 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,760 If you believe in God, believe also in me. 79 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,880 For in my Father's house there are many mansions. 80 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:20,760 If there were not so I would have told you. 81 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,240 But I'm going to go, and I'm going to prepare a place for 82 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,720 you. And if I go and prepare a place 83 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:35,400 for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, so that 84 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,480 where I am, you may be also, and where I go, you know, and the 85 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,160 way, you know. Thank God for Thomas who stepped 86 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,400 up and said, Jesus, we don't know where you're going. 87 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,760 How can we know? The way gave Jesus that 88 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:56,400 opportunity to say to him, just like he says to us, I am the 89 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:05,440 way, I am the truth. I am the life. 90 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,080 Please don't let no one tell you that there's other ways to 91 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,360 Jesus. There is not. 92 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:16,360 He is the way, He is the truth and he is the life. 93 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,400 And then he even goes a step further. 94 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,520 He says no one just in case someone wants to doubt that. 95 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:28,600 He says no one can come to the Father except by me. 96 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,600 So now, so after that, Jesus does one other thing and I want 97 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,720 to share it with you as he begins to talk to them about 98 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,960 once again, the fact that he's going to be he's going to be 99 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,360 leaving them and he's going to be going back to, to his 100 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,720 glorified to be with his father, to be glorified with his father. 101 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,560 But there's going to be an end before he comes back. 102 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,600 There's going to be a, a end of times. 103 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,840 And they asked him, they said, what are the signs of the end of 104 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,160 times? And we want to talk about that a 105 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,640 little bit, except, you know, what did what happens before 106 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,960 Jesus comes back? And I want to read for you in in 107 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,280 in the the book of Matthew, verse 24, starting in verse 108 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,000 three. He says this now, as he said on 109 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,400 the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately 110 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,320 saying, tell us when will these things be? 111 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,480 And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of 112 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,200 the age? And Jesus answered and said to 113 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,240 them, take heed that no one deceives you. 114 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,120 We need to remember that. Take heed that no one deceives 115 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,840 you. Don't let someone come and tell 116 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,600 you that it's going to come on this day or it's going to come 117 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,640 on that day. They don't know, they don't 118 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,080 know. Don't let nobody deceive you, 119 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,560 for many will come in my name, saying I am the Christ, and will 120 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,680 deceive many. And you will hear of wars and 121 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,520 rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, 122 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,920 for all these things must come to pass. 123 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,800 But the end is not yet, for nation will rise against nation, 124 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,080 Kingdom against Kingdom, and there will be famines and 125 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,960 pestilences and earthquakes in various places. 126 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,760 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 127 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:17,160 Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you. 128 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,800 And we got to know the difference between the 129 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,200 tribulation that we will receive from men and the great 130 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,520 tribulation. There's a difference between 131 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,520 those two. And he says they will deliver 132 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,919 you up in to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated 133 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,480 by nations for all nations for my name's sake. 134 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,760 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, will 135 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,680 hate one another. The many false prophets will 136 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:51,240 rise up and deceive 1 deceive many, and because lawlessness 137 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,080 will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 138 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,640 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 139 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,560 He that doesn't turn back to perdition, he that doesn't give 140 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:10,160 up on waiting for the Lord, He who does not allow himself to be 141 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:17,480 sidetracked by false doctrines and be deceived by men and begin 142 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,680 to believe in other philosophies and things of that nature. 143 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:26,280 He who does not do that, but believes until the end and 144 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,160 endures until the end, will be saved. 145 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,160 And this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the 146 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,360 world as a witness to all the nations. 147 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,840 And then the end will come. So as we look at that, he he 148 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,960 gives us a preview there of what will happen before his coming. 149 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:53,400 So he says, John says here in verse 7, he says here he says, 150 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,800 behold that in other words, you know, take note. 151 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,760 I'm about to say something really important that you need 152 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,760 to hear. Listen up, He says he is coming 153 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,000 with clouds. He is coming with clouds, and 154 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,960 every eye will see him, Yes, and even they who pierced him. 155 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,880 So if we look at this, we see here that this is first of all, 156 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,680 we should take note that he's not talking about the rapture 157 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:27,200 here. This is not the Rapture. 158 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,240 He's not talking about him coming down through the clouds 159 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,640 and then receiving us up. That's not what he's talking 160 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,800 about because he says every eye will see him in the Rapture. 161 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:42,480 The Rapture is a private event. Only those who believe in Jesus 162 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,080 Christ, only those who are the church, will know when the 163 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,400 rapture comes. Those who are not being raptured 164 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,440 won't see the rapture. They will be able to notice that 165 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,120 things have changed. People won't be here anymore, 166 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,040 but they're not going to see Jesus coming. 167 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,680 And for the rapture, so that's a private event, only the church 168 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:04,960 will see that. And we want to be caught up to 169 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,680 be together with him in the rapture. 170 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:12,040 And we you read about that back in First Thessalonians 413 171 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,840 through 18 and tells us all about the the event of the 172 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,840 rapture. But this is referring to the 173 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,760 second coming when Jesus returns with the church to bring 174 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,240 judgment to set up his Kingdom. He's talking about the second 175 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,320 coming here, him coming. And he says that when he comes, 176 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,240 he's going to come with clouds. So we read about the signs of 177 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,560 his coming, the things that are going to be happening in the in, 178 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,520 in society, the hate that be going on, the love that will 179 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,520 grow cold and the the tribulation people being in 180 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,360 tribulation, people being hated because of the name of Jesus 181 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,640 Christ. Yes, those are some of the 182 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,040 signs. Even some of the cosmic things 183 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,160 that may happen, the wars that may happen and the rumors of the 184 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:56,040 wars, those are some of the signs. 185 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,240 But that's not the end. And he says here that before he 186 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:02,960 comes back, there's going to be a sign. 187 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,640 There going to be a sign of that coming back. 188 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,560 And he says, behold, they come with clouds. 189 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,600 And notice there's a preposition here that I want you to pay 190 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,400 attention to when he says with clouds, because there's other 191 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,360 places where he talks about coming on the clouds, OK. 192 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,800 For example, if you were to look at, if you didn't look back at 193 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:29,160 Acts, this book like at the back of the book of Acts in the book 194 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:38,560 of Acts, he says this in chapter 1, chapter one, verse 9, verse 195 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,680 one, I'm sorry, first verse 9, I'm sorry. 196 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:43,400 Chapter one, verse 9, he says this. 197 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:46,880 Now when he has spoken these words. 198 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,680 Now this is Jesus with his disciples when after he had 199 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:54,440 arisen from the resurrection and after he has spoken with them, 200 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,880 he was about to be ascended. He's about to ascend up into 201 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,800 heaven. And he spoke some things to 202 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,640 them, told him to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit before 203 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,240 they go out and witness to him, which is a good, which is a 204 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,520 really good piece of advice because we too need to be filled 205 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,080 with the Holy Spirit before we go out and witness so that we 206 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,800 have the strength to do that. But then he says here in verse 207 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,480 9, he says, now he has spoken these things. 208 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,480 While they watched, he was taken up, a cloud received him out of 209 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,920 their sight. And while they look steadfastly 210 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:35,560 toward heaven, as he went up, behold, 2 men stood by them in 211 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:40,240 white apparel, 2 angels who said, Who also said, Men of 212 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,800 Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? 213 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:53,760 This same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will also 214 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,120 come in like manner as you saw him go. 215 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,680 So as he said, how, how did he go? 216 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:05,280 He went up until he was received up from them by a cloud. 217 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,040 He was received, a cloud received them. 218 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,080 So we so when he talks about he will be coming with clouds. 219 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,520 That's a little bit different than coming on the cloud. 220 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,280 Now he's going to be coming literally on the clouds as well. 221 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:27,640 Look at what it says over in Matthew chapter 24, Matthew 222 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:37,280 chapter 24, Matthew 24, verse 30, it says this. 223 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,320 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then 224 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,360 all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son 225 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,080 of Man coming on the clouds of heaven. 226 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,000 He left with the clouds. He's going to be coming on the 227 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,840 clouds. So that's the literal aspect of 228 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,480 him coming back on the clouds. But there's also a symbol or 229 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,800 symbolic mention or reference to him coming back on the clouds. 230 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,200 And that means he's going to be coming back with the clouds. 231 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,280 As it says here, He's going to be coming with clouds. 232 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:19,560 And if you look at what it says over in Daniel Chapter 7, Daniel 233 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,000 Chapter 7 verse 13 says this. I was watching in the night 234 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,880 visions and behold, one like the Son of Man coming with the 235 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,240 clouds of heaven, and he came to the Ancient of Days and they 236 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,160 brought him near before him. So he's coming with the clouds. 237 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:36,800 So that's a little bit different. 238 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,760 Now He's coming with, he's going to be coming on physical clouds 239 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,200 when they see him, when you see him coming down, he'll be on 240 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,440 physical clouds, but he's also coming with clouds. 241 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,560 And that clouds is actually a multitude of people. 242 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:55,440 Look at what it says over in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 243 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:02,800 one. Hebrews chapter 12 verse one. 244 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,120 It refers to the clouds as being a cloud of witnesses, which is 245 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,360 which are the the believer, those who are believing those 246 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,640 faithful people, they were talking about this cloud of 247 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,840 witness. This is therefore we also, since 248 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:24,280 we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay 249 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,320 aside every wait and sin which so easily ensnares us, and let 250 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,800 us run with endurance the race that is set before us. 251 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:38,200 So there's a a, a, a coming with clouds coming with a multitude 252 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,440 of believers. This reference is also made 253 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,560 about coming with the clouds over in First Thessalonians or 254 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,920 coming with the Saints and 1st Thessalonians. 255 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,680 What it says so that so that he may establish your hearts 256 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:55,680 blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of 257 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:00,280 our Lord Jesus with what with all his Saints. 258 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,079 So we are going to be coming back with him and this is what 259 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,200 this verse is referring to his second coming. 260 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,200 We the believers, the Saints and those who are dead in Christ 261 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:17,119 will be coming back with him and that's going to be a blessed day 262 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,800 and they see even those who pierced him. 263 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:21,920 OK, every eye is going to see him. 264 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:26,240 Like we said it's not going to be a private event when he comes 265 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,960 back. He says every eye will see him. 266 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,200 Every eye. That means it's going to be very 267 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,080 public and he's not going to be like it says over in Matthew 268 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,920 2426. It's not going to be like, well, 269 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,280 you know the way I'll go over there in the desert because I 270 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,280 think he's seen him come over in the desert or, or, or go over 271 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,680 there in the inner room. I think, you know, somebody saw 272 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:47,480 him in the inner room or something like that. 273 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:48,840 No, it's not going to be that way. 274 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,200 He's not working at Sheets. You know, he's not some guy 275 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,720 that's working at Sheets. That's, you know, that was able 276 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,080 to convince a whole bunch of people to believe in him and 277 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,320 follow him around. You know, it's not going to be 278 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,680 some guy walking. No, working in Walmart, That's 279 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,360 not going to be it. You're going to see him coming. 280 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,240 Every eye will see him coming. It's not going to be some 281 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,280 obscure thing. So he says that when he that 282 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,080 when he comes, every eye will see him and even those who 283 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,280 pierced him. Now, that's kind of 284 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:20,800 specifically, you know, talking about the Jews, OK, who, who 285 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,680 pierced him, who rejected him, and they pierced him. 286 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,520 Now, that's not to say that we as Gentiles didn't have a part 287 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,800 in him being pierced, because we did. 288 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,840 We had a part in that. Our sin is what took Him to the 289 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,800 cross. Our sin is what held him on the 290 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,000 cross. So it's not just the Jews, but 291 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,320 it was the Jews who pierced them. 292 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,080 And that's what he's referring to here when he says here that 293 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,360 every, you know, they, even those who pierced him, there's 294 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:57,600 over in Zechariah chapter 12 and verse 10 where the God says, and 295 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,960 I will pour on the House of David and on the inhabitants of 296 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,800 Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication. 297 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,640 Then they will look on him who they pierced. 298 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,760 Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and 299 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:18,080 grieve for him as one grieves for his first born. 300 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,800 And that day there shall be a multitude, verse 11, a multitude 301 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,360 of great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadid 302 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,320 Rahman in the plain of Megiddo. So those who pierced him are 303 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,320 going to be mourning. And then also all, every tribe 304 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,840 of the earth, all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of 305 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,240 him. So there's going to be a 306 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,320 multitude of people who will see him coming. 307 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,400 And it'll be like the, the, the, the, the tribes of the earth 308 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,920 will get a chance to see him and they will mourn. 309 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,720 They will mourn because they'll get a chance to see this one 310 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,400 that they rejected, this one that they doubted is the one 311 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,600 they're going to see his hands pierced his, his pierced hands. 312 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,320 They're going to see the sides, his pierced side, and they're 313 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,440 going to mourn. You're going to more it's going 314 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,800 to be a sad day in that time with those who are still 315 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:14,480 remaining after the time of the the seven day tribulation, 7 316 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,960 year tribulation, by the way. So then he says in verse 8, he 317 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,480 says I am I am alpha and the Omega. 318 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,200 I am the beginning and the end says the Lord who is, who was 319 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:32,800 and who is to come the Almighty. Now in some versions this is not 320 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,640 written and read, in others it is so it's Jesus speaking here. 321 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,640 Now there are some who think this is not Jesus speaking, but 322 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,280 when he says I am the Alpha in the Omega, the beginning and the 323 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:49,440 end says the Lord who is, who was and who is to come thee 324 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,000 Almighty. This is Jesus Christ speaking 325 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,120 in, in some of your versions, it's probably going to be read 326 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,480 now. Now we know that it does refer 327 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,880 to the to the to, to God the Father in the Old Testament, 328 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:05,440 they've used it many times. That's him being the alpha Omega 329 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,960 in the 1st and the last. But this is Jesus speaking and 330 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:14,800 this is Jesus basically saying look I am God, I am God. 331 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,760 And he says this throughout Revelations when he talks about 332 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,320 being the alpha and the Omega, the 1st and the last. 333 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:26,160 This is not the only place that he says this referring to 334 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,520 himself. In fact, just a little bit 335 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,200 further down, we want to see it again. 336 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:35,880 Then in verse 9, he says I John, both your brother and your 337 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,480 companion in the tribulation and Kingdom and patience of Jesus 338 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,200 Christ. I John, your your your brother. 339 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,840 He didn't say I John, your apostle. 340 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:51,280 He didn't say I John your elder. He identified with them because 341 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,960 see, they could he could have lifted himself up because he's 342 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,440 the one that's getting his vision. 343 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,640 He could have lifted himself up. They could have wanted to lift 344 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,320 him up because of the vision that he was receiving that he 345 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,200 was somebody special or somebody different or or he was a heavy 346 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,240 hitter because hey, you know, I'm getting this vision directly 347 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,720 from from Jesus Christ. But no, he said, I am your 348 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,320 companion. I'm your brother and your 349 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,760 companion. I am with you in this 350 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,680 tribulation. I mean, John was going through a 351 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,960 lot of persecution himself at this particular time. 352 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,200 And the fact that he wrote this and where he wrote it from was 353 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,320 another indication of the persecution that he was going 354 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,800 through. He was on the island of Patmos, 355 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,560 which we're going to talk about in a second. 356 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,880 So he was exiled there because he was being persecuted by 357 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,560 Domitian. So he says, but I'm with you in 358 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,520 the tribulation. I'm with you in Kingdom. 359 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:52,480 Not only am I Co heirs together with you, not only am I Co heirs 360 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,800 together with you with the the inheritance that we have in the 361 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:03,160 Kingdom of heaven, but also here I am AI am a a brother with you. 362 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,680 I'm a companion with you as we live the Kingdom life right 363 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,320 here, as we live the Kingdom life. 364 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,560 And that's exactly what we, the church, should be doing. 365 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,200 We should be thinking about, always thinking about that, 366 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,640 living the Kingdom life. That's what makes us different 367 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,680 or should make us stand out from the world so that the world 368 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,160 would be able to see this Kingdom life and want a part of 369 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,760 it. When someone asks you something 370 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,600 about where you go to church, what do you believe? 371 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,920 You know how come you don't speak like this or how come you 372 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,000 don't like this? That's because they notice your 373 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,640 Kingdom living. They notice your Kingdom living. 374 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,840 They won't have to ask you that. If they saw everything that you 375 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,920 did was just like the world, they wouldn't have to ask you 376 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,200 that. But they asked you these things. 377 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,240 They asked you to pray for them. Someone who may not ever say 378 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,240 much to you any other time, but when they need something, they 379 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,120 come to you and say, brother, would you pay for me? 380 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,840 Sister, would you pray for me? This happened to my family or 381 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,000 this happened to me or this happened to my my family member. 382 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:09,520 They're saying that because they have seen the Kingdom living in 383 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:16,680 your life and that draws them and gives opportunity to be able 384 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,960 to share the Christ. So yes, I'm, I'm a Co I'm a, I'm 385 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,000 a brother with you in the companion with you in the 386 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,720 Kingdom, but also in patience. The patience in our suffering, 387 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,600 the patience in our persecution, the patience in waiting for 388 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:34,520 Jesus Christ to come back. We are all doing this together. 389 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,640 None of us are doing this on an island by ourselves. 390 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,040 That's why we need the church. That's why we need the church. 391 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:45,960 I need you guys to help me, you know, because there's sometimes 392 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,120 that you may get weary, get tired or, or, or, or sometimes, 393 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,200 you know, you just don't feel as patient today as you did last 394 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,840 week. Challenges in your life will 395 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,000 start to, you know, make you question your patience. 396 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,200 And we'll take your patience and we'll test your patience. 397 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,200 But he says be patient as we're waiting for him to come because 398 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,680 just like you said in verse 7, behold, he is coming, He's 399 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,240 coming back. So we wait and we help each 400 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,600 other to wait during this time. And then he says here he said 401 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,840 was on, he said, I John, you know both your brother and 402 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,160 companion in the tribulation and Kingdom and patience of Christ, 403 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,040 Jesus Christ was on the island of Patmos for the word of God 404 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,800 and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 405 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,560 There it is. That tells you right there that 406 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,480 John was there because of the fact that he was testifying of 407 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,720 Jesus Christ and was sharing, witnessing to the word of God, 408 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,400 to the word of God that brought on the persecution in his life. 409 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,520 And that's why he was on the island of Patmos. 410 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,560 Now, the island of Patmos is just basically an island of a 411 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,400 big rock and marvel. I mean, it was like hardly 412 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,160 nothing there. It's about 10:10 to 13 miles 413 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,520 long or so, not very wide. But they, the Roman government 414 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,800 really sent people there because they were people who were 415 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,920 opposition either to their government or people who were 416 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,800 religious, you know, had a religion that was different from 417 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,440 worshipping Caesar. So if you challenge that, then 418 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,480 you would get, you know, you would get dealt with. 419 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,120 And for way to John was dealt with being one of the only 420 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:26,280 living apostles at this particular time and probably had 421 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,080 the loudest voice for Christ at this time. 422 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,760 They felt like they needed to get rid of him and they wanted 423 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,160 to deter him from preaching the gospel. 424 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,560 So they sent him to the island of Patmos. 425 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:42,200 So why he was there, think about it, while he was there on the 426 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,560 island of Patmos is where Jesus came to him. 427 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,200 He said I was in the Spirit. I was in the spirit on the 428 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,640 Lord's Day. Now some people might say that 429 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,360 the Lord's Day, that was Sunday. Some people say it wasn't 430 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:57,480 necessarily Sunday, It was just a day that Jesus manifested 431 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,920 himself and begin to share these things with John. 432 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,520 Whatever you may believe about it is fine. 433 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,040 This is no, this is no, it's not going to have any eternal 434 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:10,400 consequences if you believe it was Sunday or if you believe it 435 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,200 was just a day that the Lord manifested himself. 436 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,440 But he says, I was there on that day and I heard behind me a loud 437 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,560 voice as of a trumpet, you know, and, and, and, and when you 438 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,960 think about the Old Testament, the trumpets that when they 439 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,040 blasted, it got everybody's attention. 440 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,960 Everybody knew that there was something that they needed to 441 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,280 pay attention to. So I heard this loud voice. 442 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,840 So when, when, when he heard Jesus speak, it was so loud and 443 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,080 with so much authority. It was like a trumpet blast 444 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:41,880 gathering the men of war together the way they did in the 445 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,720 Old Testament. So it was something that you 446 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,440 needed to pay attention to and and and so he says here that 447 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,200 once he heard that blast and verse 11 says I am the alpha. 448 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,880 Did we go again? I am the alpha V Omega the 449 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,760 first, the last and what you see right in the book and send to 450 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,680 which are in Asia. I am the and I want you again. 451 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,560 The preposition, the word the. It doesn't say I am alpha and 452 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,160 Omega. I am last, first and last, he 453 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,960 said. I am V That means there's only 454 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,560 one. I'm the only one. 455 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,160 I am V first. There's no other. 456 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,760 I am the last. There's no coming after me. 457 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,280 I am the first. There's none preceding me and I 458 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,360 am the last. There's none coming after. 459 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,840 There's none proceeding me. I'm it. 460 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,960 I'm eternity. So Jesus says this and again 461 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:43,920 when you get people who question rather Jesus ever says that he 462 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,440 is God and you hear people sometimes they question, well I 463 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,720 never heard Jesus never said he was God. 464 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,040 Jesus never said take him to this verse, this verse. 465 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:59,560 He says it very clearly. I am alpha, any Omega, the 1st 466 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,040 and the last. Can't get that confused. 467 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,520 He's saying I'm God here. They all knew that that's what 468 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,720 he was saying. All the Jews that read this 469 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,440 letter knew that that's what he was saying because in the Old 470 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,840 Testament that's the way God pronounced himself. 471 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,200 He identified himself as that. And then he goes on here and he 472 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:23,760 says, send these, send this letter to Smyrna and to to 473 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,400 Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos. These are the seven churches 474 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,440 that are in Asia, to Pergamos, Theatara and Sardis, 475 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,680 Philadelphia, Laodicea. We're going to get into those a 476 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,480 little further down the road. We'll get into each one of those 477 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,920 churches. Then I turn, John said. 478 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,760 Then I turn to see the voice that spoke with me, and having 479 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:52,520 turned, I saw 7 golden stands, lampstands, and in the midst of 480 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:58,280 the seven lampstands 1 like the Son of Man, clothed with a 481 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:03,040 garment down to the feet, and girded about the chest with a 482 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:08,440 golden band. His head and his hair were white 483 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:15,040 like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire. 484 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:21,760 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace. 485 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,360 And his voice was the sound of many waters. 486 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,880 How powerful was that? Can you imagine John, first of 487 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,960 all, being 90 something years old, He's on this island where 488 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:41,040 he's doing hard labor and he gets this vision. 489 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,760 Jesus comes to him. And he comes to him in a way 490 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,720 that I'm sure really not only surprised him, but I'm sure it 491 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,960 startled him. I'm sure it even scared him to a 492 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,280 degree, the way that Jesus came to him. 493 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,040 But he had to be thinking at some point, You know, once 494 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,640 again, the Lord is using me. The Lord is using me again. 495 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,440 I'm in persecution. I'm being treated about as harsh 496 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,040 as you could possibly be treated. 497 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,360 I don't even feel useful anymore for the Kingdom, but yet the 498 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,840 Lord has come to me and he's using me. 499 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,880 Maybe some of you guys out there maybe thinking, I know sometimes 500 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,920 it hits me. Sometimes the Lord still, you 501 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,200 know, Lord, you still want to use me. 502 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,080 You still want to use me. Sometimes when we get a certain 503 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,760 age, we think that maybe the Lord doesn't use me anymore, 504 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,920 uses the young people, doesn't use me. 505 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,680 The Lord uses all of his servants. 506 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,120 He uses all of his servants. There's no servant that gets too 507 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,880 old. You don't retire. 508 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,880 I never read anything in the Bible where he had a retirement 509 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,360 plan, anything. If anybody does, please let me 510 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,480 know. But I've never seen anything in 511 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,240 the Bible where the Lord has a retirement plan. 512 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,880 He uses us as long as we're living. 513 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,920 As long as we're living, he can use us. 514 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,920 Doesn't matter what we've done. He said, Lord, he can't use me 515 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,200 because I've done this, can't use me because I've done that. 516 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,280 He's a God that forgives. He's the guy that offers grace 517 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,520 and mercy. So you have this image. 518 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,200 Now John has this image and he says, I, I saw the seven lamp 519 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:25,880 stands. And in the midst of the seven 520 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,960 lamp stands, there was one who look, there was one like the Son 521 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,320 of Man. And it goes on to describe what 522 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,800 the Son of Man look like. He said is he, he was clothed in 523 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,880 a white garment down to the feet. 524 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,120 That's usually symbolic of the priest, the priest in the 525 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,560 satchel that was across his chest. 526 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,920 It's a pro. It's symbolic of the priest, of 527 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,360 the righteous priest. Well, he is the high priest. 528 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,200 So we see the High John is looking at the high priest here. 529 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,120 It's majestic. He's looking at the majestic 530 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,960 high priest and he's and, and, and it says here that his head 531 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,200 was white. It was like snow. 532 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,000 It was like, it was like war and it was white. 533 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,200 We're not talking about just Gray here. 534 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:17,480 We're talking white Bible talks about in in in in proverbs about 535 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:22,440 the the Horry head or the Gray head being a symbolic of wisdom. 536 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,280 Well, Jesus is definitely all knowing. 537 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,480 He's omniscient. He's all wise. 538 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,400 Not only is this about his wisdom, but it's also about the 539 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,720 fact that he is pure. The white represents the purity 540 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,680 of Jesus Christ. I was looking out of my window 541 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:44,080 the other day and, and, and, and I have a in our backyard because 542 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,960 not much has been going through there. 543 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,080 The snow is just packed and it's pure white. 544 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,240 It's pure white, at least on that end that where my dog goes, 545 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,560 not so much. But this area that I was looking 546 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,840 at was pure white. And I was just looking at how 547 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,400 the sun was glistening off of that sun. 548 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,960 I can barely look at it. I could barely look at it. 549 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,920 So I imagine if John is is seeing Jesus Christ in all his 550 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,800 glory, seeing him in full glory and he's seeing his hair that's 551 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,719 white. And this is also another reason 552 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,760 why I don't particularly care for images, visual images of 553 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,159 Jesus Christ, these pictures of images of Jesus Christ, because 554 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,840 I've never seen anything in the Bible where it describes the, 555 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:37,360 the true features of Jesus Christ other than him and, and, 556 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,800 and descriptions like this. And it's only like maybe two 557 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,080 places in the whole Bible where he even gives a description of 558 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:43,960 Jesus. And in none of those 559 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,400 descriptions, you can't tell like personally what he looks 560 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,600 like. We know more about what he is on 561 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,719 the inside and who he is, his character, his integrity, his, 562 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,880 his glory. We know more about that. 563 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,040 And, and this is a reminiscent of that, you know, his head is 564 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,480 white like pure. So he has that purity. 565 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,920 But it also says his eyes are like a, a flame of fire. 566 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,520 They're not brown, they're not blue. 567 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,000 They are like a fleece said they were like a flame of fire, a 568 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,240 flame of fire. So these are like eyes that were 569 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,640 like that, that just didn't look at the surface, but these are 570 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,240 eyes that penetrated into the soul. 571 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:22,720 We can see into the spirit. It doesn't. 572 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,880 Nothing can be hidden from these eyes. 573 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,600 Everything is manifested in his sight. 574 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,720 There's nothing that he can't see and, and, and he judges in 575 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:37,040 his eyes, but he can see and he can judge righteously. 576 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,760 Even as it says over in Psalms 19, it says that the judgments 577 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,640 of the Lord are true and righteous all together. 578 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:50,840 He's the only one that truly always judges righteously the 579 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,960 only one. And he said his feet were like 580 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,200 fine brass and refined in a like, like they refined in a 581 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,160 furnace. His feet like fine brass. 582 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,880 That brass that, that, that, that durability, the durability 583 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,400 of brass, the, the, the stability of brass. 584 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,000 And not only that, but brass is also something that's trod in 585 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,360 the furnace. And we know that Jesus when he 586 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:18,600 walked in the earth, he was tried and yet he was still 587 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,600 without sin, tried. And, and just almost like that, 588 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,600 the verse right over in Psalms that says that he is tried in a 589 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:31,240 furnace of the earth. And it says that he is purified 590 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:35,200 7 times. And yet we know that Jesus was 591 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,680 tried on the earth, but yet he was still without sin. 592 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,600 He was still the righteous. And then says that his voice, 593 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,760 his voice was like the sound of many waters. 594 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,800 I don't know if I'm sure most people have been up to Niagara 595 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,120 Falls before. We used to go up to Niagara 596 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,080 Falls and we would be on the, the, the American side. 597 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,520 We would go over to the, the Canna, the Canadian side. 598 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,160 And we would see the falls from that position and over in the 599 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,840 Canadian side and get a little bit closer to the falls and, 600 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:07,960 and, and it's a little, and it's really loud. 601 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,040 It's really loud. Now I have never actually got in 602 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:16,560 the boat to go behind the falls and, and whatnot, but just being 603 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,480 around other waterfalls, you can just hear when you got the 604 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,920 multitude and the volume of water that goes down and, and 605 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,280 how it goes down and it hits, you know, and, and it's just 606 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,840 loud. It's loud. 607 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,600 And I said that this is how Jesus's voice was like the sound 608 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,920 of many waters. So not just like one Niagara 609 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,800 Falls, but many Niagara Falls, you know, and hearing that that 610 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,000 sound, that's how that voice sounded. 611 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,520 So of course it would unnerve John to some degree in the 612 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,440 Bible. It says here that in the verse 613 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,640 16, he says that he had in his right hand seven stars. 614 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,000 If we want to come back to that over in verse 20, but said he 615 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,440 had his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth when a a 616 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,560 sharp 2 edged sword and his countenance was like the sun 617 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:09,120 shining in its strength, the sun shining in its strength. 618 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,800 Who can look at the sun when it's not being hindered by no 619 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,600 clouds or nothing in front of it, just the pure sun. 620 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,960 Hardly anybody can look at it, and it's almost like when they 621 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,200 were up on the Mount of Transfiguration, when they 622 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,800 looked in Jesus's face and they saw the brightness of his face 623 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,960 when he saw him in his true glory. 624 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,320 Purity, once again, righteousness, holiness is pure. 625 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,960 The Bible says that God is light and in Him is no darkness at 626 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:47,120 all, no darkness. So when you have brightness and 627 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,080 light that has no darkness at all, it's light. 628 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,800 It's really, really bright. And this is the face of Jesus 629 00:38:55,360 --> 00:39:01,080 shining so bright, you know he's out of his mouth was a was a 630 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,000 sword. And that's how that's his 631 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,440 weapon. That's his weapon. 632 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,240 His weapon is the word, the word of God that by itself is going 633 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:14,040 to slay his enemy, the word of God. 634 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,640 We want to come against our enemies. 635 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,080 Just use the word of God. There's nothing that makes the 636 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,720 enemy flee faster than the word of God. 637 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,720 So he has his two edged sword coming out of his mouth. 638 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:29,160 He doesn't carry his sword in his teeth. 639 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,720 This is the word that comes out of his mouth and it literally 640 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,840 slays his enemies. Verse 17 says in and when he saw 641 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,760 it, he fell at his feet as dead, fell his feet as dead. 642 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:48,400 And this is basically this is the response that one gets when 643 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,080 he comes into the presence of a mighty God. 644 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:57,600 It takes our strength, it takes our vigor from us. 645 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,880 We're weak in his presence. When we really get into the 646 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,480 presence of God, we can only, we can't do anything but just 647 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,560 falling down and worship him. Worship him. 648 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,880 You know how we hear people. And maybe I'm sure I've said it 649 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,440 myself a few times. Yeah. 650 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,880 You know, I'm going to ask God about that when I get to heaven. 651 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000 You know, when I see Jesus, I'm going to ask him about this. 652 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,680 I'm asking about that. No, I'm not like the Jesus would 653 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,600 fall down like a dead man, just like John. 654 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,400 Just like John fall on my face, I'm not going to have no 655 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,480 strength to want to ask him anything. 656 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,600 He's not like he's a man that I can sit down and negotiate with. 657 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:40,960 It's glory, it's perfection, it's true holiness. 658 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,360 And to be in the presence of that, it takes your strength. 659 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:52,200 It takes your strength. So I can see him being concerned 660 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,680 and being afraid, and he must have been afraid. 661 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,720 Now we're talking about John who lived with Jesus, walked with 662 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:04,080 Jesus for three, 3 1/2 years. He knew Jesus, but yet when he 663 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,600 saw him in the fullness of his glory, there was something 664 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,560 different and he knew it. He said this. 665 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,840 This isn't the same guy we be eating fish with. 666 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:20,000 He looks different because he's seeing Him in the fullness of 667 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:26,360 His glory, just as we will one day we will see Him as he is. 668 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,680 And Jesus had to say to him, do not be afraid, brother, don't be 669 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:36,280 afraid, don't be afraid. Those are the four words that 670 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,600 I'm sure John loves to hear. He said it to him. 671 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,200 And so many other times when Jesus was walking on the sea and 672 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,440 they saw him, they thought it was a ghost. 673 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:49,120 He had to say, do not be afraid. So they saw him several times in 674 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,360 those situations where they had, he had to speak and say don't be 675 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,840 afraid. Don't be afraid. 676 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,320 And he says that to us because there's times that we may want 677 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,560 to be afraid, but he says to us, do not be afraid. 678 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,520 And, and, and, and, and, and he actually touched him. 679 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,600 He laid his right hand on him. He didn't have to. 680 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,040 He could have just commanded him to stand up, but he didn't. 681 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:16,200 He showed him compassion and and attention. 682 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,960 He laid his hand on him. Thank God for his touch. 683 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,200 He says I am the 1st and the last. 684 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:27,080 I am he who loves. I am he who who lives in and was 685 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,760 dead and behold am alive forever more. 686 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,400 Bless the Lord. You know. 687 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,360 So he's saying here I have strength, I have power over 688 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,920 death. And he proved that because he 689 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,320 got up out of the grave. So he does have power over 690 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,360 death. He told he, he, he told Ponty, 691 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,560 he said you don't have any power over me that God didn't give 692 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,280 you. I don't get, you know, you don't 693 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,120 take my life. I lay it down. 694 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,000 I lay it down and I'll pick it up again. 695 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,240 And he showed that he could do it because he rose up out of the 696 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:02,720 grave. And what A and what a, what, 697 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:07,440 what good news that is for us that he's the first, He's the 698 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,760 first to rise from the dead. He's the first born of the dead. 699 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:15,640 We come after him, we will rise after him. 700 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,400 And then in verse 19, I'm sorry, he also says here at the bottom 701 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:25,120 of that verse 18, Amen. I have the keys of death, of 702 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,720 hades, and of death. The devil doesn't have the keys. 703 00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:30,040 He doesn't have authority in hell. 704 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:36,760 Jesus does. He has authority over hell and 705 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,880 you know, he, he, he, I know he thinks he does, but he doesn't. 706 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,280 Jesus has the keys of Hades, which is the abode of the death 707 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,720 and death. It's Jesus that will judge the 708 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,480 wicked and they'll be cast death. 709 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,120 Hades who are those who are dead in the earth, those who are dead 710 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,040 under the earth, those who are dead in the seas, He will cast 711 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,200 them into the lake of fire one day. 712 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:05,000 Verse 19 says write these things which you have seen and the 713 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,760 things which are the things which will take and the things 714 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,760 which will take place after this. 715 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,240 And there is the whole outline for the Book of Revelation right 716 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:18,920 there, right there, OK. It's about the things that are 717 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,320 the things you've seen. It's about the things that are 718 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,040 and the things that will take place after this. 719 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,880 And then verse 20 says the mystery and we're going to 720 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,960 finish up period of praise and worship team can come the 721 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,280 mystery of the seven stars, which you have seen in my right 722 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,160 hand in the 7 golden lamp stands. 723 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,160 He gives the he gives now the answer to some of those things. 724 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,080 Now there's some things that are in revelations that are symbolic 725 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,520 and some of those things, you know, there's different schools 726 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,000 of thought on how those things are interpreted. 727 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:56,680 But then there's things that the word of God will clearly tell us 728 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,680 what those meanings are. And this is one of those, one of 729 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,000 those things here, what are what is the true meaning of the seven 730 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,440 stars and the true meaning of the golden lampstands for the 731 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,320 meaning of the seven stars, what you have in your hand. 732 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,160 And he noticed there in his right hand, we believe that 733 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,880 those are the pastors of the churches because the seven 734 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,760 lampstands are the churches. So it's the seven. 735 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,360 So it's the seven stars, which are the the seven pastors of the 736 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,800 of the seven lampstands or the seven churches. 737 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,160 And he says they're in his right hand, which means that they're 738 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,160 being protected by the Lord. What a blessing that is to have 739 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:41,440 an elder or a pastor or just the people, the messengers of God 740 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:47,200 being protected by the Lord. What a blessing that is. 741 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,320 And we go out and speak on his behalf and we witness we're in 742 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,880 his hands, we're protected. But this is referring to the 743 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,200 seven pastors of those churches, the messengers of those 744 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:03,080 churches, and then the seven lampstands, which are what you 745 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,000 see, they are the seven churches. 746 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,840 And the lampstand is like the menorah, is like the menorah 747 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,160 that was in the Temple or first of all in the Tabernacle and 748 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,160 then later in the Temple. The menorah that those 749 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,960 lampstands, it was all of gold and it was the light that it 750 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,680 provided for the Tabernacle and then eventually for the Temple. 751 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:27,840 It was the light, just as Jesus Christ is the light of the 752 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,160 world. Jesus says I am the light of the 753 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,040 world. He believes in me, doesn't walk 754 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,280 in darkness, but she'll have the light of life. 755 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,120 He's the light of the world. And now he tells us over in 756 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,840 Matthew, he says you are the light of the world. 757 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:49,480 Let your light so shine so that men will see your good works and 758 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:55,560 glorify God who is in heaven. We are the light of the world, 759 00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:02,160 so when we leave here, it's about being a light wherever we 760 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:08,480 are and letting that light shine so that others will have hope. 761 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:11,680 When our light shines, others have hope. 762 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,840 When our light shines, others have hope. 763 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,120 When there's a ship lost in sea, when he finally sees the 764 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:27,040 lighthouse and sees the light at the lighthouse, he has hope. 765 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,440 He has hope. I can remember sometimes being 766 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,640 on some very, very desolate roads, driving in some of the 767 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,000 back places. I've met a gentleman over here 768 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,880 who said that he lived in South Dakota for while we are Caden, 769 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,160 there you go. He said he lived in South Dakota 770 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,760 for a while, and I really wanted to talk to him a little bit more 771 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,440 about South Dakota. But there's some areas of South 772 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:52,040 Dakota that are just really, really desolate and dark. 773 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,280 And then all of a sudden you see a light off in the far distance 774 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,200 and you can tell I'm finally coming upon a town and you have 775 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,160 hope. And that's exactly the way it is 776 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,400 for us to where the church, we are the light that gives hope to 777 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,760 the world. So let our light shine. 778 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:18,000 And John eases us, and as he gets into the prophecies and the 779 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,720 church, first, he's going to get into the churches. 780 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:22,640 Next time we start in chapter 2, he's going to get into the seven 781 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,400 churches. Then after that, we'll get into 782 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,200 the prophecies, those things that are happening after this, 783 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,560 Amen. But he eases us into this, and 784 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,240 I'm so glad he does. He gives us a big dose of Jesus 785 00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:40,960 Christ, Amen. Let's pray, Father, we thank you 786 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,480 for your word. We thank you for your goodness. 787 00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,280 We thank you for all that you show us and teach us, Lord, how 788 00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:53,440 you give us the way. How you show us the way, Lord 789 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,360 demonstrated even with your life. 790 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,440 And then as if that wasn't enough, Lord, you came and you 791 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,400 did the ultimate as you came, and you died for us, Lord, for 792 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:07,560 our sins. You shed your blood, Lord, and 793 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,800 you cleansed us of our sins, and you did it in your own blood, as 794 00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,800 your scripture says. You washed us, You cleansed us, 795 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,040 You purified us. And I pray, Lord, that someone 796 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,160 tonight may have heard something that will cause them to want to 797 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,240 have that relationship with you, want to give their lives to you, 798 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,280 want to trust you for their salvation, Lord, that they don't 799 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,200 want to have to wonder if whether or not they have 800 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,080 salvation, but they can know that they have salvation, Lord, 801 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,840 if they have their, if they have the Son. 802 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:47,160 So I pray that someone will turn from their and repent from their 803 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,200 sins, Lord, just as we all need to repent every day, those who 804 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,760 are believers and those who are not. 805 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,680 And I pray, Lord, that someone will give their hearts to you, 806 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,560 Lord, and trust you for their salvation. 807 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,880 Let us be lights, Lord. If we haven't been lights, Lord, 808 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,240 up to this point, I pray that you will cause us to be lights, 809 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,560 cause us to desire, Lord, to let our lights shine in our 810 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,520 communities. Let our lights shine in our 811 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,480 homes. Let our lights shine in our in 812 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,400 our jobs, in our schools as young people. 813 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,440 Let our lights shine. Let people see that we are 814 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:28,680 different because we are of the Kingdom of God. 815 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,200 But we thank you for the sacrifice, Lord, that it took 816 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,200 for you to bring that gospel to us, to the to the world. 817 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,040 Lord, we thank you for that. So the night in which Jesus was 818 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,600 betrayed, he took the bread in his hand and, and it says that 819 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:56,120 after he gave thanks, he broke it and he said, take, eat, this 820 00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:57,920 is my body which is broken for you. 821 00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:11,060 Eat this in remembrance of me. Then he also took the cup and he 822 00:51:11,060 --> 00:51:16,740 said this cup is a new covenant in my blood which was shed for 823 00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:19,460 the forgiveness of sins for many. 824 00:51:21,020 --> 00:51:24,540 And that blood that was shed 2000 years ago is still 825 00:51:24,540 --> 00:51:32,100 cleansing people from sins even today is still cleanses. 826 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,200 It's just as efficacious now as it was 2000 years ago. 827 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:42,200 Thank you Lord, drink this as often as you drink it. 828 00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:50,200 And remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and 829 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:54,200 drink this cup. Do show the Lord's death until 830 00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:55,880 he comes. Amen. 831 00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:58,920 Amen. The Lord bless you. 832 00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,160 The altar is open if anybody would like to come up. 833 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,000 Someone like to give their hearts to Christ this morning, 834 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,920 please come up and do so. Lord bless you.