1 00:00:07,030 --> 00:00:11,790 Revelation 22 thank you worship team. 2 00:00:13,070 --> 00:00:15,710 Now Father, we do pray for the school, Sunday school teachers, 3 00:00:15,710 --> 00:00:20,670 the junior church leaders, be with them, help them minister to 4 00:00:20,670 --> 00:00:23,150 the children. Lord may the children love you. 5 00:00:24,390 --> 00:00:26,990 May any who don't know you receive you as the Lord and 6 00:00:26,990 --> 00:00:30,710 Saviour today. We pray for any here gathered 7 00:00:30,710 --> 00:00:33,840 with us this morning and that don't know you that have come 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,840 seeking to find and call upon you. 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,280 We pray for this salvation. We pray today for all of our 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:46,480 hearts to be convicted, for our hearts to be corrected, Father, 11 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,840 for our hearts to be forgiven, and for Your grace and your 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,600 mercy to be new and fresh to us even this morning. 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,200 Again, Lord, give us good ears to hear. 14 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,840 Lord in Jesus name, Amen. As we complete our study in the 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,920 Book of Revelation, the title is I'm coming quickly. 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,440 Jesus said that we remember that scripture began with us in the 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,840 Garden of Eden book of Genesis, the book of beginnings, Genesis 18 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,240 chapter one. In the beginning God created the 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:25,680 heavens and the earth. In Revelation 22 we see God had 20 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,000 has created a new heaven and a new earth. 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,040 In the book of Genesis God set the sun and the moon. 22 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,760 He said let there be light and there was and they both shone 23 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,480 distinguishing the day from the night. 24 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,560 Now in heaven there is no night, only light. 25 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,240 The light from the throne of God. 26 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:53,280 Genesis 3 The curse came as Adam and Eve fell for the lives of 27 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,240 the enemy. Who said if you eat this you 28 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,240 won't die? It's all good. 29 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,960 And a curse was announced after the fall of Adam and Eve. 30 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:10,120 Eve would would take time and trial in in in giving birth. 31 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,720 Adam would work the land in sweat and thorns and thistles 32 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,480 would grow and he would have to labour and death would come. 33 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,960 In Revelation 22, the curse is removed. 34 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,760 In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve had to be driven away out of the 35 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,960 garden, the beautiful garden paradise, for their own eternal 36 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,480 sakes, away from the tree of life, so they wouldn't touch and 37 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:43,120 stay in their sin forever. In Revelation 22, the tree of 38 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:48,160 Life is restored and each and everyone, every believer in 39 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,720 Saint, who's in the new heaven. The New Jerusalem has access to 40 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,440 its wonder and we see a beautiful garden once again, a 41 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,560 paradise like no other ever formed. 42 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:10,200 Our home is a paradise. All that Adam lost, Christ the 43 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,280 second Adam has regained, and much more, much better. 44 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:21,440 So anything that you think is good now in heaven, it's going 45 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,040 to be far beyond how much better it's going to be. 46 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,160 And we can't, we can't explain that. 47 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,720 That's the wonder of heaven. That's why we all need eternity 48 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:44,240 in heaven, because we will just be amazed, amazed at at the 49 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,200 wonder of what we see, what we'll do, how we'll appear 50 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,480 ourselves, and the glory and the wonder of the throne of God. 51 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:59,120 Heaven. The Bible is the history of the 52 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:06,080 world, its creation, its fall and its end. 53 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:16,399 The Bible is God's story of Him sending his Son Jesus to rescue 54 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,600 us from our own mess. For God so loved the world that 55 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,680 he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes. 56 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:28,880 And that's all you have to do. On him shall not perish, but 57 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:33,680 have everlasting life. You get you live forever. 58 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,360 No separation from God ever again. 59 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,000 God sent his Son to rescue us. When you are rescued, it means 60 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,800 you can't save yourself. When the lifesavers paddle out 61 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,400 to you and grab you, it's because you're drowning. 62 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,320 You can't save yourself. Jesus came because we couldn't 63 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,480 save ourselves and it was our own mess. 64 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,240 We deserve judgement, but He restores us. 65 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,200 He forgives us and removes all of our sin. 66 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,720 The time in which you and I are now living, 2025. 67 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:22,080 We are awaiting Christ's return at any moment for His church 68 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,600 called the rapture. Jesus spoke of it in John 14. 69 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,440 Paul mentioned of it in one Thessalonians. 70 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,400 He was in Thessalonica of just three Sabbaths, Paul. 71 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:39,120 But in those three Sabbaths when he was in Thessalonica, Paul 72 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:44,280 gave them and unloaded the wonders of heaven, the wonders 73 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:49,160 of the rapture, and the glory of God that awaits us all and that 74 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,400 Jesus is coming soon must be important. 75 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,560 We're living in the last days prior to the rapture. 76 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,800 And then after the rapture occurs and the church is taken 77 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,000 out, the Bible says all hell will break loose. 78 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:17,120 There'll be 7 years as Daniel prophesied of this, the 70th 79 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,000 year of the 69 of the of the 70th years on the children of 80 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,320 Israel. The clock begins to tick the 81 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,640 last seven years and it's called the Tribulation. 82 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,960 Jesus will return at the end of that seven year period with his 83 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:37,280 church and end all conflict. The battle of Armageddon over. 84 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,320 He speaks and it's done. He will then establish his 85 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:48,400 thousand year reign called the Millennium here on earth, and at 86 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,440 the end of that thousand years he will cast Satan and all the 87 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,080 demons. The third of the angels that 88 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,240 fell with Satan will be cast into the lake of fire along with 89 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,600 death, where the Antichrist and the false prophet, as I said, 90 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,600 along with death will be. And then there's the Great White 91 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,640 Throne judgement, the second resurrection. 92 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,160 We're all unsaved who have died over the years since the 93 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,480 creation of the heaven and on earth and everyone who has died 94 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,960 without Christ will be resurrected, face the great 95 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,680 right throne judgement and we be cast into the lake of fire 96 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,440 forever. In chapter 22, we come to the 97 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,160 end of this prophetic book, a book that it's said at the at 98 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,000 the beginning in chapter 1. You'll be blessed if you hear 99 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,440 it, if you read it and you keep it. 100 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:44,360 So without anything already God has blessed you because you've 101 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,760 heard it, you've read it, and I pray this is the important part, 102 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,600 that you're keeping it. We come to the end of it. 103 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:58,960 How will it all end? We're told how it will end. 104 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,320 For those who love Jesus Christ. There'll be a new heaven and a 105 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,840 new earth. The old has burned up, Peter 106 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,880 said, melted with a fervent heat, and eternity has come. 107 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:16,480 I can't comprehend eternity, can't fathom Revelation 22 verse 108 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:17,280 one. Let's look. 109 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,400 And he showed me a river of water of life. 110 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,960 Now this is John being showed. He's on the Isle of Patmos. 111 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:30,560 And remember, this is one of the angels who handed out the bold 112 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,600 judgements. So this is that Angel. 113 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:36,320 And he says John I shown, he's shown him the outside. 114 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,799 We looked at that on Wednesday, how tall it was, the New 115 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:43,559 Jerusalem. It's a cube, 1500 miles high, 116 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,560 long, wide breadth, perfect cube. 117 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,760 And now he takes John inside. Enter through the gates, 12 118 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,320 gates, a gate made of a Pearl, 1 Pearl per gate. 119 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:04,480 Walks in and he's showed me a pure river of water of life, 120 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,160 clear as crystal proceeding from where does the river flow from? 121 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:16,000 What's the the spring source? It comes from the throne of God 122 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:23,120 and of the Lamb capital L Lamb Heavenly Father. 123 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:29,360 And the Lamb capital L is Jesus Christ in the middle of its St 124 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,120 and on either side of the river. So the tree of life is the tree 125 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,400 of life. It's so big that it goes on 126 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,680 covers to both sides of this river that runs down this, the 127 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:44,000 middle of the street, the tree of life. 128 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,600 And this tree of life bore 12 fruits. 12 There's that number 129 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,320 again, each tree yielding its fruit every month. 130 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,320 The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 131 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:04,560 So John is now taken inside the New Jerusalem by this Angel, and 132 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,840 now he writes down what he sees. We're reading it. 133 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,840 He sees a river. It's no ordinary river. 134 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:17,120 Many Bible commentators question whether it's actually Aqua water 135 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:22,040 H2 oi believe it is, but there's more to it. 136 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,440 This river flows from the throne of God. 137 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:33,200 And this river is filled with an endless supply of divine life. 138 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,760 Remember to be in heaven. We learned last Sunday that you 139 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,640 had to be what? Thirsty. 140 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,000 Remember Jesus came to the woman at the well. 141 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,400 She tried everything she tried. She wanted to be loved. 142 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,200 She wanted to be protected, cared for. 143 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,680 And so she short thought she could find that in relationships 144 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:58,800 with men. It failed each time. 145 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,960 She had had five men and the one she was with now was not a 146 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,600 husband. When she met Jesus at the well 147 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,560 and she was going there to get a drink and Jesus said can you 148 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,160 give me a drink? And she was confounded. 149 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,560 Here was a male, first of all speaking to a female, which 150 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:20,640 wasn't done. He was a Jew, that's another 151 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,400 thing. And she was a Samaritan and 152 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,040 there was this enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans. 153 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,440 But Jesus was waiting for her. Jesus is waiting for each and 154 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,880 every one of us because we're like that woman at the world. 155 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,000 We, we've tried everything. We continue to try stuff. 156 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,920 It's funny, you know, we'll, we'll try something and it'll 157 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,640 fail. You know, we'll do, we'll try it 158 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,800 again. We try the same thing again. 159 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,880 But there's only one thing one way that's going to, that's 160 00:11:53,880 --> 00:12:00,160 going to meet the ache that only you ever feel, that only you 161 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,120 know about. No one else knows about it. 162 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,560 You're the only person that knows yourself within. 163 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,880 But God knows you and he has an appointment. 164 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,200 He sent his son Jesus for you, as he did to the woman at the 165 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,240 well, and she came first. And he says, Jesus said, I can 166 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,520 give you water where you'll never thirst again. 167 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:26,960 And she said, how do I, how do I get that water? 168 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,960 And then he introduced himself. He says, I'm the Messiah. 169 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,160 I'm the one that you're looking for. 170 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:39,520 And she was so overwhelmed with joy, she left her water jugs and 171 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:44,120 ran into the city and said, hey, everybody, she's, she's, she's 172 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,600 not thirsty anymore. You got to come. 173 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,360 You got to come and drink what I've drank. 174 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:49,640 You got to come and meet this one. 175 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,120 Meet this one to be in heaven. You got to be thirsty. 176 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,720 Heaven will be filled with thirsty people who have found 177 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,760 Christ and now first no more. No longer chasing the 178 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,360 relationship after relationship, no longer trying to be the best 179 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,480 at achieve this. Get that? 180 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,680 That's why so many athletes, when they reach their pinnacle, 181 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:18,000 they win the gold medal, they break their record, they win the 182 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,680 the flag, the premiership, then what? 183 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,360 A mount on the top of the mountain. 184 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,040 It's lonely. Now, what do I do? 185 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,680 This is all I've lived for. You see, Jesus gives you a 186 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,680 reason to live each and every day. 187 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,040 And you know what? The best thing about eternity, 188 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:44,520 it's going to be more and more and more and more and more. 189 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:51,680 I've had one nightmare that I can remember as a child and it 190 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:56,080 was dying a first. I remember it vividly and I 191 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,520 remember my older brother. We were in the sharing the same 192 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,360 room. And in that nightmare I'm crying 193 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,880 out to him. Give me a drink. 194 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,560 I'm laying on the ground and you know how Australian summers can 195 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:10,680 get hot and I was laying on the ground. 196 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:15,600 I'm just thirsty first like I've never had before. 197 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,000 And he walked over me and he didn't give me a drink. 198 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,960 And I woke up and I told him off in the morning, Why don't you 199 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,480 give me a drink? I didn't know what I was talking 200 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,440 about. I was just a little kid. 201 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:33,320 But that first, I know that first. 202 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,920 You know that first alone. When you've been alone, you 203 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,680 maybe even be happily married, but you're still thirsty. 204 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,320 You're going to have to be happily married, have a great 205 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,720 job, healthy kids, all all those things. 206 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,720 And it'd still be thirsty, because the first God is created 207 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,360 within your thirst, and the first is to have a relationship 208 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,200 with Him. To be in heaven, you need to be 209 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:09,000 thirsty, but also you needed to be an overcomer. 210 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,560 Revelation 21 six and he said to me, it is done. 211 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,280 I am the alpha and the Amiga, the beginning and the end. 212 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,640 I will give up the fountain of the water of life freely. 213 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,440 We're talking about the river to him who first he, whoever comes 214 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,640 shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be 215 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,840 my son. Heaven as seen by this river 216 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,480 will be totally satisfying you and I, we long for that. 217 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,240 You know how often he's finally I could just get away from all 218 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,120 the problems that we're having. You know, the bank situation 219 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,720 lost my job or this this ache that I carry when my body 220 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,400 continually. If only I could be on a desert 221 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,160 island and just, you know, not have any worries. 222 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:57,440 Well, you don't get a desert island, you get paradise and it 223 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,600 will satisfy you. You will have that unbelievable 224 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:11,280 emotion and feeling in heaven of being absolutely satisfied, 225 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,880 quenched. John sees a prominent tree. 226 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,320 It's the tree of life. It bears 12 fruits every month. 227 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,000 And you go hang on a minute. Months. 228 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,840 I thought we're in eternity. Is this not eternity? 229 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,400 Time will continue. Time will continue. 230 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,880 John tells us that eternity will have distinction. 231 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,160 There'll be cycles and seasons of a sort. 232 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,200 We will be outside. We're not. 233 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,240 We're not bound by time, but time clicks on. 234 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,920 John describes this fruit bearing cycle and he uses what's 235 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,560 called an anthropomorphic term. In other words, it's describing 236 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:01,560 something that's divine and putting it into human terms so 237 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,319 we can relate to it. He says this is tree, the tree 238 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:08,880 of life, and it's got fruit. And you eat this fruit and you 239 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,040 get this, this this massive healing. 240 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,720 It says the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the 241 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,000 nation's. You ask another question. 242 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,800 OK, well, OK, but if sin and disease and pain and tears are 243 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,680 known more, we did that Revelation 21. 244 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,359 Why then will the nation's need healing? 245 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,880 The word healing in our texts, and it's written in Greek is the 246 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:38,200 Greek word therapia. It's the root word where we get 247 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,600 our English translation therapeutic. 248 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,960 A better way to translate this would be you get life giving or 249 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,480 health giving. In other words, you'll find but 250 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:55,240 this is like an extra blessing. You get a supernatural vitamin 251 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,480 so our lives will be fully energised and exciting. 252 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:06,200 When you get to God, ask him, He'll explain this because I 253 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,840 can't. Verse three. 254 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,800 There shall be no more curse. That means death, pain, sorrow, 255 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,920 but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it and his 256 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,760 servants, it's us, shall serve him. 257 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,520 We're going to be doing stuff. They shall see his face, that's 258 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,400 the Lord's, and his name shall be on their foreheads. 259 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,640 It's interesting how the Antichrist did his copy, the 260 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:44,800 fake he gave the old barley tattoo. 666666 But God, he marks 261 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,120 you. We have a mark, and we have the 262 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:54,520 name written on our foreheads in heaven, the Lord's name. 263 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:00,720 There shall be no night there. Why does it say that you go? 264 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,600 What's the big deal about no night there? 265 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,280 They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord gives them 266 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,800 light, and they shall reign forever and ever. 267 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,320 What's the scariest thing that you usually face as a kid? 268 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:20,160 Well, I know darkness, man. I was terrified of the dark. 269 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,000 We had stables in our backyard and I would play up, do 270 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,560 something wrong and I'd run away, pack a case and I'd run 271 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,760 away and hide up the stables. But then I'd come home and sneak 272 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,240 in the bedroom window because it was dark. 273 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,400 I'm not staying up the stables in the dark. 274 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,480 There's Boogie 1 boogie monsters up there. 275 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,400 But why is it that we have this, this, this, this fear of the 276 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,080 dark, this, this, this, this. It just wells up and, you know, 277 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,680 and the, the wonder of how a blanket pulled over your head 278 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,280 can save you and that just protects you from any monsters, 279 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,120 doesn't it? There we go. 280 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:04,480 I'm in the zone, you know, But we have this fear of the dark. 281 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,000 And as a child, for me, it was very, very real. 282 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,480 I was so scared of the dark. And my auntie lived next door. 283 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,120 She used to like cigarettes. She smoked a lot. 284 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,680 So my auntie would come and Oh no, my auntie's coming. 285 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,640 She's wanting me to go down the shop and it's dark to get her a 286 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,680 packet of cigarettes. I'd hear a shuffle, a side gate. 287 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,160 Go, Mom, I've got to go to the shop for Auntie Mill. 288 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,000 It's dark. And our street, where we lived 289 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,760 in Hampton Rd, we had one street light and then the next one was 290 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,320 500 miles away. And the vampires lived under 291 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,120 that one. Because I watched every vampire 292 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:47,000 movie as a kid. It was just healthy. 293 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,160 Anyway, she come in Keith Love. Could you go down the shop and 294 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,640 get a packet of cigarettes for your auntie? 295 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:58,520 Sure. I only will. 296 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,600 Thanks. And we had a big old door, big 297 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,720 old wooden fly wire door and I would be out that door, swing it 298 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:11,640 open on my bike, ripped down to the shop, pick up the packet of 299 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,080 cigarettes. Rothmans pedal back and the door 300 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:18,960 would close behind me as I got home. 301 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,240 I was like lightning. I was terrified of the dark. 302 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:33,880 But it says here, no darkness. We have no fears. 303 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:39,800 There's no fears. You know, when you and I can't 304 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,560 comprehend, you know, there are things that happened during our 305 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,640 days as we go about our lives and something happening and all 306 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,600 of a sudden this this fear arises or they're not home yet 307 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:56,080 or it's late or looks like this they're selling the company and, 308 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,560 and all and these fears just rise up in heaven. 309 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:08,600 None of that, none of that. But how could there be no more 310 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,400 curse? Why does he even mention that 311 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,720 since death and the curse has been lifted? 312 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,040 Because it says the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it. 313 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,320 A curse implies here distance between God and man. 314 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,360 Because death in the Bible for a Christian is always mentioned as 315 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:32,280 sleep, but death for an an unbeliever is death. 316 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:37,960 It's it's judgement, death, separation from God. 317 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,840 But in the New Jerusalem, that once great impassable chasm 318 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:48,160 where our sins separated us from a holy God, we'll shrink to 319 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,400 nothing. The curse will be gone. 320 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:57,240 God's blessing will grow more and more each day in eternity 321 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,440 because every day we'll discover something new. 322 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:10,120 We will all make wonderful, just unbelievable discoveries each 323 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,920 day. And God's boundless grace and 324 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,360 His love will be so much more because there's something 325 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,720 special that God has also placed in our hearts. 326 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,640 And that is we actually want to touch God. 327 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:32,000 We actually want to feel God. We want to feel the warmth of 328 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,120 Him. We want to see his face. 329 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,080 We're not people who want to worship God from a distance. 330 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:41,680 We will serve God in the new Jerusalem. 331 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,720 Life will be anything but boring. 332 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:50,440 Now John turns his focus from what he sees now to those who is 333 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:56,080 writing this last passage to the believers you and I John wants 334 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:01,760 the Saints of God because this Bible prophecy book, the Book of 335 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,320 Revelation, is written only to Christians. 336 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,040 John wants the Saints of God who read this prophetic book to be 337 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:17,400 ready and to get ready for this amazing future that's coming. 338 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,400 And so three times John mentions Jesus is coming. 339 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:28,520 Have I told you Jesus is coming? Verse 7, verse 12 and verse 20. 340 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,240 Now the early church believed that Jesus could return for them 341 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,080 at any moment. That's how they live. 342 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,760 They believe, well, He's just gone and He's coming back any 343 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,600 moment as we are. The generation, as I said 344 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,080 before, that we are living in the last days prior to Christ's 345 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,040 imminent return. What should we as Christians 346 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:55,400 here at Calvary Chapel, Secret Harbour 2025 be doing right now 347 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:03,680 knowing all that we've read? Verse 7, Jesus says behold, I am 348 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,280 coming quickly. That word quickly there means 349 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,560 it's the Greek word Taco. When we get our word and the 350 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:16,160 Moto all new Rev heads takamina, it means house. 351 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,000 It's fast, I'm coming and when I come it's going to be really 352 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,720 fast. When I come, it's going to bang. 353 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,360 This happened, Paul says it's going to be faster than the 354 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:30,880 twinkling of of of the eye measurement, not the blinking, 355 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,680 but the actual twinkling of of the eye. 356 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,240 The church will be here and in the twinkling of an eye faster 357 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,360 than that gone measure how that's going to impact the 358 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:48,560 world. I am coming quickly now He says, 359 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:53,880 blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this 360 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:54,680 book. What does that mean? 361 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,280 They say now I, John, saw and heard these things. 362 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,720 And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet 363 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,040 of the Angel who showed me these things. 364 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,520 Then the Angel said to me, see that you don't. 365 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,040 Hey, don't do that, John, for I'm your fellow servant and of 366 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,800 your brethren, the prophets and of those who keep the words of 367 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,520 this book worship God. When you and I, as believers 368 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,880 studying no Bible prophecy in the way God intended, it will 369 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,920 help to purify us. We will live differently with 370 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,560 our eyes on heaven, our hands loosely on the things of this 371 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,680 world, and our lives busy serving the Lord with all that 372 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,640 we are capable, 1 John 33 says. And everyone who has this hope 373 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,040 in him purifies himself just as he is pure. 374 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,960 That means our eyes are constantly, our minds are always 375 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,160 thinking, our conversations with our children, you know, Jesus is 376 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,520 coming soon. I love talking to our grandkids 377 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,680 and having them ask, is he coming soon? 378 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,560 When is he coming? What's going to happen in 379 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,280 heaven? Because that's what you and I 380 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,200 are to. We're on that. 381 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,800 We're in the the terminal at the airport. 382 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,080 We're just waiting. We're ready to go. 383 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,320 You know, when you go to the airport, you're going to fly 384 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,040 somewhere. You think about where you're 385 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,360 going to go. What's the temperature going to 386 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:20,480 be like? What time will we get there, 387 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:25,960 what we'll do, where we'll stay? The apostle Peter wrote to Peter 388 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,080 311. Since everything around us is 389 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:35,160 going to be destroyed, old heaven, old earth, what holy and 390 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,480 godly life should you live? Peter asked the question. 391 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,360 How should you live? He said then tells us how, 392 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:48,440 looking forward to the day and hurrying it along, Peter says we 393 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:54,240 should be living holy and godly lives, lives that display our 394 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,960 love for Christ. In other words, I can see that 395 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,640 the way you live, the way you speak, the way that you manage 396 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,080 your whole life, your resources, your time, your family tells me 397 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,840 you're a Christian. We're looking for God, waiting 398 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,480 for the Lord to come. Can I, can I see that? 399 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,800 Can your neighbours see that you, can your kids see that in 400 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,520 mom and dad, that mom and dad are ready for the Lord? 401 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,480 With our beliefs, Our beliefs, because of what we've read in 402 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,360 the Word of God, are controlling our behaviour. 403 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,240 Well, we're not going to worry about that, son. 404 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,240 There are more important things in life. 405 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,520 What you need to get right is your relationship with God right 406 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,360 now. That's the most important thing. 407 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,120 We live out the life that the Bible declares is a godly life, 408 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,040 showing our faith to be alive. Real people say, well, I'm a 409 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,560 Christian and you go, that's news to me because I can't tell. 410 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,200 I can't see it in the way that you live, the way that you speak 411 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,240 and the way that you go about your activities and energy. 412 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,080 It's not. It's not clear. 413 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,720 It's a life that's devoted to pleasing God. 414 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,760 That's where the word St comes from. 415 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,560 It's not invented by the Catholic Church. 416 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:17,240 The word St Hagios is a word that means this instrument that 417 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,680 is made in the temple for the temple, and that's where it came 418 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,280 from. This instrument is made for the 419 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,440 sole purpose of the worship of God. 420 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,280 Guess what? You're a St And so you are made 421 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,840 for the sole purpose of the worship of God. 422 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,320 It's the first commandment. You shall love the Lord your God 423 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,840 with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your 424 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,400 strength. That's why you're created. 425 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,560 We should wake up each day looking forward to it being the 426 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,240 day of the Lord that He's coming back. 427 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,240 How can we hurry it on? That's impossible, isn't it, 428 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,000 Keith? To hasten. 429 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,840 That's what it means to have. It means to have eager 430 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,560 anticipation. It's when you and I talk about. 431 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,000 As we gather and we go, we finish chapter 22 today. 432 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,400 Man, I've loved the Book of Revelation. 433 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,120 Jesus is coming soon. As we're talking. 434 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,800 You know what that's doing? It's hastening, it's it's, it's 435 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:23,800 pushing it on. It's soon. 436 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,560 It's any moment it will happen on that day. 437 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,760 Peter goes on to say he will set the heavens on fire. 438 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,360 The elements will melt away. That's the old heaven and the 439 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,080 old earth in the flames. But you and I, we're looking 440 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,720 forward to the new heavens and the new earth. 441 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,920 He has promised a world filled with God's righteousness. 442 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,440 And so dear friends, Peter goes on to say, while you are waiting 443 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:54,120 for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living 444 00:30:54,440 --> 00:31:00,240 peaceful lives that are pure blameless in his sight. 445 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,640 All that to Peter, chapter 3, verse 11 to 14. 446 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,720 Our study of this prophetic book should change the way we walk 447 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,720 before God to drop off the unimportant cares. 448 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:20,120 If you study about heaven and revelation and you think this is 449 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,040 the word of God you believe it is, then the study of this 450 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,440 should help us as we realise realise Jesus is coming at any 451 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,920 moment. Heaven awaits us to drop off 452 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,360 unimportant cares of this world that are burning our time, 453 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,840 wasting our energy, choking our walk with God. 454 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,920 And we should start to think and live more with an eternal 455 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,200 perspective. If something happens and I'm 456 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,080 growing old, if something happens as you grow older, 457 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,200 hopefully we grow wiser. When we're young, we got energy. 458 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,840 As you get older, you still have energy, but you run out of gas. 459 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,800 Takes time to recover. So as you get older, you refine. 460 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,000 I need to, I need to focus more on what I'm doing. 461 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,520 Guess what? You need to do that when you're 462 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,240 young. You need to focus your life. 463 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,280 You say, Well, Keith, I'm. I am busy. 464 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,560 Yeah. You're busy doing your stuff. 465 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,080 You're too busy for God. Many people are too busy for 466 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:31,800 God. Jesus is never too busy for us. 467 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,920 We got to look at our lives and really examine. 468 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:42,200 I don't care whether you're 6 or 70, examine your life. 469 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,360 Therefore we also, the writer of Hebrews says, since we are 470 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,480 surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside 471 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,680 every weight and the sin and here's what happens that so 472 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,880 easily ensnares us. We get caught up and stuff and 473 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,400 let us run with endurance, the race that is set before us. 474 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:11,240 Keith, what are these weights? It's everything and anything and 475 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,640 anyone that hinders your progress. 476 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,720 You know what? There's a lot of good weights, 477 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,400 good things that are weighing you down. 478 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,720 I realised that in my life as I began to get more and more 479 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,960 serious with God. There is stuff you know, I can 480 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,760 do that I can be involved in that. 481 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,280 We can do that as a family. But then I got to realise, you 482 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,400 know what, no, we don't because they'll take us away from our 483 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,360 time serving and being with the Lord. 484 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,840 You will keep. That's a pretty boring life. 485 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,120 Well, that's a choice. Serving God is never boring. 486 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,040 Being in God's will is never boring. 487 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,280 It's always wonderful, it's fulfilling. 488 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,640 That's the reason why we're here. 489 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:06,720 You know when you have that eternal perspective in our I 490 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,920 have a paddle board, it's a large larger than a surfboard 491 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:15,320 and they made out of epoxy and this other types of foam and 492 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,560 chemicals and stuff. And they have what's called a 493 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,560 breather valve in them. The breather valve was a little 494 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,560 black thing so that when you store any heat that generates 495 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,080 inside the board, it it lets this valve automatically lets 496 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,920 out the hot air so the board stays intact and nothing starts 497 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:38,440 bubbling and exploding. Well, guess what, If you start 498 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:47,120 to live your life with an eternal perspective, it creates 499 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,400 A breather valve. And when problems come your way, 500 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,239 you know what happens? You go, yeah, it's pretty bad. 501 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:54,280 You know what? The Lord's coming. 502 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,040 The breather valve clicks in, doesn't get you to explode. 503 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,400 You don't melt. You can take the heat and just 504 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,960 but the Lord will. Well, God will sort that out, 505 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:11,680 The breather valve, John says you've read these things, you've 506 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,520 heard all about these things, you've seen these things. 507 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,720 Now blessed are they who do them. 508 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:21,600 The Bible calls this wise or foolish living. 509 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,040 A fool is a person who lives as if God doesn't exist. 510 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,960 Because the storm is coming and we see it. 511 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,280 We see it in our government. I tell you, it won't be long 512 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,600 before preaching the Bible will be hate speech. 513 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,320 There'll be rules. They'll say you want to be a 514 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,800 church, then you're going to and you want to be involved as a 515 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,280 charitable organisation, then you're going to have to do this 516 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,280 and we're going to go, guess what, we're not doing that. 517 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,800 There's coming a time when in your own personal situation 518 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,360 you're going to have to define God. 519 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,080 I'm not doing that. I'm not being part of that. 520 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,480 That's not me. My faith. 521 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:02,200 You need to stand up for your faith, defend your faith, stand 522 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:10,960 up for your faith and declare sorry and I'm not apologising, 523 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,480 but my faith, my what I believe in says that's not right. 524 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:19,640 I can't do that. I'm a Christian, Jesus says in 525 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,320 Matthew 724. Whoever hears these sayings of 526 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:29,280 mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his 527 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,280 house on a rock. It's a father. 528 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:38,040 It's a husband like Noah who gets his children to Christ. 529 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,680 Noah is my mentor, the greatest father that I know. 530 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,800 Why? Because out of all the billions 531 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,760 that lived at the time of the great flood and evil was 532 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,480 everywhere, Noah sat in the ark. And opposite Noah said his wife, 533 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:56,200 his three sons and their three wives. 534 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,320 And I went there and when God closed the door, I tell you 535 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,600 what, Missus, Noah should have said. 536 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,520 Noah, you're a wonderful husband. 537 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:12,040 Ham, Sham and Japha should have said, oh man, Dad, it's raining. 538 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,200 You're awesome. He saved them. 539 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,440 That's your job, Dad. That's your role, your ministry. 540 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,400 You're to lead, you're to guide, you're to protect, you're to 541 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,320 read. The first person that heads out 542 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,480 the door to come to church, it's got to be you. 543 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,560 The first person that says, let's pray about that. 544 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:39,560 It's it should be you be a Noah. So our walk with God should have 545 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,640 changed since we started reading, hearing and living the 546 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,680 commands of this book. The Book of Revelation has it 547 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,280 has our study through this book changed anything in you. 548 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,200 Secondly, as your life turn in its worship of God. 549 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,760 Since we've studied this book. Verse 9 and he said to me, see 550 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,240 that you do not do that for I'm your fellow servant, your 551 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,480 brethren, the prophets and of those who keep the words of this 552 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:11,320 book worship God. Have you not become, I have 553 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,480 overwhelmed by the enormity of the judgments of God that will 554 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,760 befall this world, But more importantly, have you not been 555 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:24,080 staggered by the glory, the wonder and overwhelming detail 556 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,440 of the new heaven, the new earth, the new Jerusalem and 557 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,840 John's description that you have in detail. 558 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,480 He's described it again, highlighting the wonders of 559 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,320 God's grace that you'll not experience the trauma and the 560 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:43,200 calamities of the tribulation When we read about what's ahead 561 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,080 of us now. How can we remain casual in our 562 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,440 walk with God, lukewarm in our worship of him? 563 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,280 We can't. John 423 Jesus said, but the 564 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,760 hour is coming and now is and he said this to the woman at the 565 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:01,000 well, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in 566 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,680 spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to 567 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,440 worship him. Studying the Book of Revelation 568 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,600 has impacted our personal walk with God, our personal worship 569 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,480 of God. And now thirdly our witness. 570 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:23,240 How's that verse 10 and he said to me, do not seal the words of 571 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:26,520 the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand. 572 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,680 It's soon. The Angel tells John, don't 573 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,360 hideaway what I've told you all this stuff, all that you've 574 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,280 seen. Tell everyone about it. 575 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,720 Don't seal it up. Don't keep it to yourself. 576 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,040 Do you know the the Book of Revelation is the first book I 577 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,960 read as a new Christian, you know, Wow, you did. 578 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,800 Yep, read the Book of Revelation and the Gospel of John. 579 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,760 You know, same bloke wrote both the Book of Revelation. 580 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:58,160 The coming of the Lord was the message that got me saved. 581 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,440 It's the message today. Why? 582 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,360 Because we're living in the time that Jesus is coming. 583 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,400 It's the message. If you see a bunch of kids start 584 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,120 talking about the tribulation, start talking about have you 585 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,800 ever been in the army? You know there's going to be a 586 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,040 World War. Start giving them the details. 587 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:15,920 Tell you what, they'll soon listen. 588 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,520 You know why? Because you're talking 589 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,400 everything that's already written in the paper. 590 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,800 How can we read about the coming tribulation where half the 591 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:29,640 world's 8 billion people will perish so quickly, 4 billion 592 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,960 about the Wick will fall. How can we? 593 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,640 And that's only by Revelation Chapter 9. 594 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,680 Four billion have gone, half the population and the wickedness 595 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,880 that's going to be unleashed demonic beings, the judgements 596 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:48,280 of God, the falling and not to be moved by these awful things 597 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:53,200 to warn people to avoid them to come to Christ to receive him as 598 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,760 their Lord and Saviour. In verse 17 it says and the 599 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,640 spirit and the bride say come, let him who's hears say come, 600 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,200 let him who thirsts. There it is again, whoever 601 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,520 desires, let him take the water of life freely. 602 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,920 And who desires? The Spirit is the Holy Spirit, 603 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,840 while the church, we're the bride. 604 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,360 And what does the bride say in this chat passage? 605 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,560 We're telling other people to come. 606 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,360 We are to with passion, with love, and with all of our 607 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,680 hearts, say to those who are currently sitting under the 608 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,800 judgement of God for their sins outside the family of God. 609 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,520 We're saying come in, get saved, come and hear about this. 610 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,280 Let me tell you about what's going to happen. 611 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,680 God desires you to come. We can tell them that He invites 612 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,480 you to come. Come and have eternal life. 613 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,640 So we've have our walk, our worship, our witness, and now 614 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,400 our work. Verse 12 Behold, I'm coming 615 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,840 quickly, and my reward is with me to give to everyone according 616 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,240 to His work. The new Living Translation puts 617 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,560 it this way. Look, I am coming soon, bringing 618 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:09,560 my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds. 619 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:14,920 One day each and everyone of us who are believers will stand 620 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,000 before Jesus Christ on our own in heaven. 621 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,520 And based on your service now that you've done in your life, 622 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,600 you will be tested as to your work for him. 623 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,960 Based on that test, you will either receive a reward or have 624 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:36,400 a reward withdrawn. Burn up, Paul says in Two 625 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,920 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 10 For we must all appear before 626 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,840 the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive the 627 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,160 things done in the body according to what he has done, 628 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:52,560 whether good or bad. Romans 1412 Paul said. 629 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,760 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. 630 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,600 There's not much time left. Jesus himself said I must work 631 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,880 the works of him who sent me whilst day. 632 00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:08,720 The night is coming when no one can work, but we have a choice. 633 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:14,760 Verse 11 it says he was unjust, let him be unjust still. 634 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:18,000 He was filthy, let him be filthy still. 635 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,280 He was righteous, Let him be righteous still. 636 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,480 He is holy, let him be holy still. 637 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,120 It's your choice right now, today how you live. 638 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,960 Jesus desires willing hearts, not reluctant ones. 639 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:34,520 Can you imagine getting married and standing opposite the bride? 640 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,960 She's going, I'm not sure about this or the OR the bridegroom 641 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,840 and you're, you're the bride and you're just standing there and 642 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:46,760 he's going do it. Shall we really? 643 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,240 You'd be thinking, oh this is great. 644 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,000 Jesus is after passionate and eager servants, not half hearted 645 00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:02,840 and disinterested ones. Every day you make choices that 646 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:07,680 mark your destiny. If we are wrong in this life, 647 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,000 then we will be more wrong after death. 648 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:19,480 But if we are right in this life, we will be even more right 649 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:24,240 in our new and glorious home than we could ever imagine or 650 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:26,640 think. Follow with me as we read to the 651 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:31,360 end, verse 13. Jesus says I am the Alpha and 652 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,200 the Amiga, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 653 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:37,520 Blessed are those who do his commandments that they may have 654 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,440 the right to the tree of life may enter through the gates into 655 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,440 the city, but outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually 656 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,520 immoral murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises 657 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,520 alike. Now I'm saved in heaven. 658 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:57,080 I, Jesus have sent my Angel to testify you these things in the 659 00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,760 churches. I am the root and offspring of 660 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,840 David, the bright morning star and the Spirit and the Bride. 661 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,840 Say come and let him who hears say come, let him who thirsts 662 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,800 come whoever desires. Let him take of water of life 663 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,640 freely. For I testify to everyone who 664 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,400 hears the words of the prophecy of this book. 665 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,880 If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues 666 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,240 that are written in this book. If anyone takes away from the 667 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:28,840 words of the book, of this prophecy, God shall take away 668 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,000 his part from the book of life, from the holy city, and from the 669 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,640 things which are written in this book. 670 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:40,120 He who testifies to these things says, surely I am coming 671 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,720 quickly. When I come, it's going to be 672 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:47,400 fast, Amen. Even so John says come, Lord 673 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,440 Jesus, the last prayer, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 674 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:56,200 be with you all, Amen. It was Billy Graham who said, 675 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,520 you know, I've read the last page of the Bible. 676 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,080 It's all going to turn out all right. 677 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:09,920 Jesus said I am coming quickly, Taco speed. 678 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:16,320 When I come, people are going to be there and then gone, just 679 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:21,240 disappeared. This now is the third time in 680 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:24,880 this final section that Jesus has made that statement. 681 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,320 He say I'm coming and when I come man, it's going to be fast. 682 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:30,880 Do you think he's trying to tell us something? 683 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,120 I'll just go to I'm just going to no, gone, done. 684 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,720 Jesus is coming quickly in the sense that when he does come it 685 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:44,600 will happen swiftly and the prophecies of this book will 686 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:51,160 take place then in a very rapid succession. 7 years man, I want 687 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:56,840 after the other 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 balls, second 688 00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:01,760 coming, thousand years, New heaven, new earth, it's going to 689 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,080 happen. Your hearts sang in Symphony 690 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:12,760 with John's words. Even so, come Lord Jesus, you 691 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:18,320 have the greatest message for Australians today. 692 00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:25,800 The Book of Revelation is the most exciting book that you can 693 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,240 share with someone who's not a Christian because you know what? 694 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,600 They're all interested in what's going to happen at the end? 695 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:40,000 How's it all going to turn out? The answers are always in the 696 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,800 back of the book. Jesus Christ is the answer. 697 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,680 We have a job to do. We have a mission. 698 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:53,040 Proclaim the good news. Let's pray, Heavenly Father, 699 00:47:55,400 --> 00:48:05,920 help us to keep, to live out and to share the messages of this 700 00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:11,800 wonderful book. And Lord, help us to speak to 701 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,600 our relatives, to our neighbours, to our friends, 702 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:20,920 husbands, wives, dads, mums, brothers and sisters, children, 703 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,000 that when Jesus comes, it's going to be so fast you don't 704 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,120 want them left behind. If you're here today and you 705 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,120 don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, I will pray 706 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,320 with you, show you the Scriptures just as someone 707 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:47,120 wonderfully did for Helen and I and showed us John chapter 10, 708 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,800 Romans chapter 10, verses 9 and 10, that if you believe in your 709 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:56,280 heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, 710 00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:58,800 you shall be saved.