The 4th chapter of the Book of Revelation begins the 3rd and
final section of the Book of Revelation.
The Book of Revelation actually gives us the division, the
sections of the book in one chapter one verse 19, John gave
us the division of the book. He was told by the Lord in the
vision he had on the island of Atmos.
He's in his late 90s. Write the things which you have
seen. What did he see?
John chapter 1 he gives us the description.
He describes the description of Jesus Christ as he hears his
voice, he looks and there is Jesus and he remember we went
through and we discovered and he wrote down and we've examined
the description of Christ. So that's the things that you
have seen first section then and the things which are chapter 2
and chapter 3. The things which are are the
period of the church beginning with the day of Pentecost.
The church history carrying on it still hasn't finished in
time. We're in the that church period,
the things which are we had 7 letters to seven churches, 7
actual churches. Also, as you, any of you would
study church history, you'll see how they represent through the
period of history, our world history, the events that each
church represents as we went through from Ephesus to
Laodicea, which we studied last Sunday being the Church of the
last days. Then the third section which we
begin tonight, chapter 4, and the things which shall be here
after some of your Bibles will have after these things, after
what here, after what? After chapter 1, after chapter
2. So these are events yet to
occur, yet to occur. The things you have seen, the
appearance of Jesus, those things which are the period of
the church overlaid by 7 letters to seven churches and the things
which shall take place after this.
From chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation, we are given a
heavenly viewpoint. John has taken up.
We'll read shortly that he's taken up and he describes the
events not as is as if he's on the earth.
He describes the events as if he's in the bleachers in heaven
looking down and writing in. This is happening and that's
happening and that's happening. It's a very important point.
It gets a vantage point, if you like, of the events that will
come upon the earth, watching on as the earth is about to go
through seven years, it has never experienced ever before.
Jesus said that Matthew 24. So after chapter 3, another
important point to note is that the church is never again
referred to as being on earth. Of course, there will be
churches still going, the apostate church, the unified
church, especially where we'll have the false prophet and all
that sort of stuff. And remember, we're going to
read Paul talks about and in one and two Thessalonians, the the,
the combining of the faiths, the faiths, and we see so much of
that, how there's been a shift to a world faith doesn't matter,
you know, if you call him Allah, if you call him Buddha, even
though Buddhists don't believe in God, you call him Jehovah,
whatever, it's the same God. And the Bible says no, no, but
that's where the world is shifting.
And so the word church is never again referred to as being on
earth. And it is evident that the
judgement of a guilty world, Jesus coming back, and the
judgement in the seven years is suspended.
The judgement upon the earth. Peter tells us this is suspended
until the church has been removed from the scene to Peter
29 Jesus Peter has been talking about Noah.
Then he's talking about lot and how judgement couldn't come on
Sodom and Gomorrah until we got lot out the road and we had to
get right out and lot out. And then remember during that
period, Abraham said well, there'd be 50 righteous said
there'd be 40 then there'd be no judgement.
And so the righteous had to had to get out.
There weren't 10. There were not ten righteous
people in in Sodom and or Gomorrah tells you how bad they
were. And so Peter says the Lord knows
how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the
unjust until the day of judgement to be punished.
In addition, from Revelation 4 to the end of chapter 19, God is
not once addressed as Father. Interesting.
Isn't that what Jesus said? We're to call God now.
He's my father, your father. He's called from 4 to 19 and on.
He's called God, he's called Lord, he's called Almighty, all
names by which he was known in the Old Testament days.
But the name Father by which he has been known to the church is
entirely absent. Jesus said, when you pray, how
do you pray? Pray this way, our God, no, our
Lord, no. He says pray this way our Father
who art in heaven. This tells us clearly that the
church's presence here and its role.
What is the role of the church. Remember two things go into all
the world preach the gospel 2nd and to make disciples of those
that receive the gospel. Those two things it's on it's in
Matthew 28 Mark 16. That's the that's the task for
you and I now. And so when the church is taken
out, there's no presence of the church, the Holy Spirit moving
through the church and in Second Thessalonians, the restraining
force by you and you and I gathering tonight and us
praying. We we push against we're going
to talk about that. We push against the work of the
evil one that's trying to to have his way, but God's on the
throne. And so the church is raptured.
Our witnessing for Christ is done.
The things that occur after the church's removal are then in
progress and in the hands of God's people.
Israel. Remember 69 lots of seven year
periods. Daniel, the 70th year, the clock
begins ticking again. Israel comes into focus.
And which nation now is coming into the focus of every nation
in the world? Israel.
During the period Israel will come to the fore, there'll be
two witnesses. Who are they?
We don't know who they are. We can speculate, but the
Israelis, an Angel of heaven, will go around the world,
proclaim the gospel. Every tribe, every tongue will
hear the gospel 144,000 and they're not Jehovah Witnesses.
They're not the 7th day. Each one of those groups say,
yeah, we're the 144. We're interesting.
In my office, there's a little thing that compares religions,
Jehovah Witnesses, 144,000, According to them, who are cult
false prophets, that 144,000 was filled.
I think back in the 1960s. It was like, OK, I'm 144,000.
I wonder how they do that. I don't know, but it's done.
And then the people that live now on have to earn their
salvation. How Knocking on doors, selling
the awake, that's how they have to earn the salvation.
When the millennial period comes in for them, they will live upon
the earth. And if they live in obedience,
they'll be OK. And if they disobey, you know
what happens to them. In Job witness theology
annihilation. It states that just go on
amazing. But also there will be those who
are martyred, people will receive Christ.
The greatest revival also occurred during the Tribulation
period and people will come to Christ.
People we've witnessed to people have heard you say and pray to
them about. They'll realise when you're
gone, man Amen. But they'll have to die for
their faith. Revelation 6 verse 9.
When he opened the 5th seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
those who had been slain for the word of God and for the
testimony means they didn't deny Christ, which they held.
You'll die for your faith. Revelation 12/11 And they
overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, overcame the works of
Satan by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony,
And they did not love their lives to the death.
Well, courageous to be a Christian in the tribulation.
First one, after these things, I looked and behold, a door
standing open in heaven. After this, after these things,
the Greek words metatata, after the things in chapter 2 and
three. Now in chapters 2 and three, as
I said, we studied the history of the church and we looked at
the division of the church given to us in chapter 1, verse 19.
And as we study the text tonight, we'll find out that the
church too. And here we have a mirror.
John is letting us into us being the church on describing it,
after these things, I looked and behold his door standing open in
heaven. And notice.
And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet where
we've heard that before speaking with me, saying, come up here
where we've heard that before, and I will show you the things
which must take place after this, after what?
After the rapture tonight we look the simulation and learn
about the church and John describing what's happened to
him as a type of what's happening to the church.
Paul tells us that the church is taken, it is snatched.
People say, well, the word rapture is not in the Bible.
Yes, it is. It's in the Latin Vulgate,
rapturo, caught up, seized, taken suddenly.
That's what it means. The apostle Paul calls it being
caught up to meet the Lord where it's not the second coming the
second coming Jesus feet stand on the earth.
Revelation 19 Where is the rapture?
What happens to those being rapture caught up to meet the
Lord in the air want Thessalonians 417 Behold a door
was opened. This one back in the letter to
the ladder sins. Remember on Sunday we look Jesus
was outside the church knocking at the door calling out to
whoever would hear him and let him into their lives because the
Church of Laodicea thought they had it all down.
They didn't have God didn't need him.
Here we see the promise of heaven made sure to all who had
opened their hearts to him and invited him to be Lord of their
lives. Heaven is real.
It's a real place and it is waiting for you and I to come
home. Jesus and John 14 says I go to
prepare a place, not a not a cloud, a place for you.
If you read 1 Thessalonians 4, verses 16 to 18 again, you'll
see an amazing similarity to verse one here in in Revelation
4. For the Lord himself, we'll
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an
Archangel, Archangel with the trumpet of God.
The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive.
So my Corinthians 15, we're changed in the twinkling of an
eye. We who are alive and remain
shall be caught up, thieves snatched, grabbed together with
them, those who have died already in the in the clouds
notice to meet the Lord. We're in the air and thus we
shall always be with the Lord. Now at the end of verse one,
Meditata, as mentioned again twice in one verse means
something important because it's repeated.
Jesus does not want us to miss this point.
This is what's going to happen, He said.
He said after these things beginning the net, the end.
Come up here and I'll show you the things which must take place
after this meta touta both. The first voice which I heard
was like a trumpet speaking with me saying come up here and I'll
show you things which must take place after this.
Now notice with me the voice that John hears that it has the
same impact as that of a trumpet signalling.
It's not that Jesus goes and we hear the trumpet.
It's the voice as a trumpet. Why?
Why is he referring to this? Because the trumpet and the
shofar we have remember we have it in there from Israel.
What what's what they for in the army?
It's for get up and reveley. It's for the Last Post and all
those things. It's for attack, charge,
retreat. It's a signal.
That's what this is, a trumpet speaking with me.
Come up here. I show the things with much take
place after this. It's the trumpet is signalling
this is what's going to happen. Where else have we heard these
words? The 16 For the Lord himself will
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
Archangel and the trumpet of God.
This is the voice of Jesus that John hears, and so too will we
at the time of the rapture hear that verse 2 Immediately I was
in the Spirit, and behold a throne set in heaven, and one
sat on the throne. John sees God seated on the
throne in heaven. This is the first image that
catches John's gaze, the first thing that fills his vision in
this amazing event. Do you tonight ever feel as if
your life, things around you are just, you know, running away?
Maybe you think things are out of control.
We look at politics and sometimes we in Australia and I
think, wow, man, it's out of control in Europe.
Is it out of control? Perhaps your relationship with
one of your loved ones, money, your children, or maybe your
life tonight appears to be in shreds.
It's, it's all over the place, your job, your marriage or
whatever. It's it's, it's, it's not good.
Henry David Thoreau said these words.
Most men in this world live out their lives in quiet
desperation. It's interesting to find out how
many people, when you get to the heart and nitty gritty of
things, something happens and they'll go, yeah, I haven't been
good. You know, we, it sits in this
world now. We, we have the, the highest
youth suicide in the world, Australia and, and we don't see
it because everyone puts on a facade.
You know, I remember a young man, I used to see him every
Wednesday. I would teach on the radio and
I'd go and visit him because he was at a surf shop right across
from the radio station. And then one night I go there
and I said, where's Simon Hung himself?
We don't know. No one, none of his friends, no
one knew. It's tragic, tragic.
Well, hear that statement, if that's you tonight, this fact
from God's word, from John's vision, God is on the throne.
He's on the throne. John sees God on the throne.
He is in control. We don't think at times he is,
don't we? Don't you and I, we go, well,
God, how can you? Why are you letting this?
And we we wonder, you remember in John chapter 4, Jesus sent
his disciples on the head and he says I'm going to wait here by
this. Well, it's pretty hard.
I'll just wait here. You guys go out and sort
something out. Then a woman turned up later.
Remember she didn't come with all the other women.
She didn't come with all the other women because she lived a
pretty promiscuous life and she wouldn't hang around with all
the other women. Her life was one of failed
relationship after another. She's on her fifth relationship.
But God was on the throne and he ordained a meeting with her, a
personal engagement. She arrives at the well, There's
this man, he says, can you give me a drink?
How come you're asking me a woman?
You're a Jew. I'm a Samaritan.
You don't even talk to us. We know the rest of the story.
He revealed himself to her. I am He.
I'm the Messiah. He changed her chaos in to calm.
What did she do? Instead of living by herself,
hiding out, coming to get the water, She dropped the jug,
remember? Ran into the city, dancing,
singing, shouting. I I've met the Messiah.
The Messiah is there. He's told me all things.
You've got to come. She turned into an evangelist.
You've got to come. Jesus turned her immorality into
purity in your life. When fear comes, when the earth
around you shakes, remember God is on the throne.
It's set in heaven, and it's permanently laid out.
The Tabernacle. We have part of the what's in
the Tabernacle, the menorah. But the Tabernacle, remember,
we're told as Moses built that it was an image of what is going
to be in heaven. And so you and I and to know
this, it's set in heaven, the Tabernacle is in heaven, God is
on the throne, it's permanently laid out.
Nothing can shake the foundation build upon the rock and the rock
is Jesus Christ verse 3 And he who sat on there was like a
Jasper. So he's he's describing the the
glow of the vision. And so you see the word.
He's not speaking like a Californian 16 year old girl
from the valley going like he was like like, but he's he's
describing what I see. And he who sat there was like a
Jasper and a Saudi stone in appearance.
There was a rainbow around the throne in appearance, like an
emerald around the throne with 24 Thrones.
And on the Thrones, I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white
robes. They had crowns of gold on their
heads. This provides a wonderful
insight as we see the beauty of the throne of God.
The Jasper stone was a clear stone, you know, like a diamond,
like dazzling a diamond, and it speaks of the light as it dances
through a diamond reflects. John says God is light.
He would write about that in the first, second or third.
John, he's aware of everything Jesus says I'm the light of the
world. He sees everything.
Christ brings life to everything through light.
It means he knows about your particular situation.
He brings the light of God upon it.
OK, if he's the light, if he's so aware, what's he doing in my
situation because I'm going through a bit of a dark time now
you see it provides verse 3. It provides a wonderful insight
into that question. Says he was Asadi, a stone like
a Ruby, which is deep red Asadi a stone When the Ruby red blood
of our Lord, pure and innocent, drooped down from his hands as
he hung on that cross at Calvary just over 2000 years ago, his
feet and his heart bleeding heavily.
There was nothing more he could say or do to tell you or prove
to you that he counts. You precious, you can never say
God doesn't care about me without looking at the cross.
And the cross is your answer. He has not left you alone.
In the book of Exodus chapter 28, we read about the high
priest and the robe and the garments that he would wear.
The priest wore a breastplate upon which were 12 precious
stones laid out, one representing each of the 12
tribes of Israel. The first of the 12 sons of
Jacob was Who? Remember Reuben.
Reuben's name means behold or see a son.
That's what it means in the Hebrew.
His stone, by the way, was Sardius.
Sardius Stone, the last of the 12 sons.
Who? Who's that?
Remember Benjamin, whose name meant son of my right hand.
Guess what? Benjamin Stone was Jasper.
So the one on the throne that John sees, he sees these stones,
and in the Hebrew behind the names that the stones represent
is this. Behold, the son of my right
hand. His name is Jesus.
Amazing. Now round about the throne there
was a rainbow. It's been stolen, hasn't it?
Isn't that like the devil? The rainbow came out in the book
of Genesis after the flood. God's promise.
I'll put my bow in the sky. I'll never destroy the earth
again by a flood. And So what does Satan do?
I'll grab it and use it for that.
Isn't it fascinating how a movement could grab something
like that and change it and twist it?
It's exactly what Isaiah said would happen in the last days.
Things that are good would be called evil, and things that are
evil will be called good. Round about the throne was a
rainbow, not an electric fence. I want to keep that sign or
force, for your can't come near it.
The rainbow was a sign of God's grace, the sign of God's
everlasting promise. That is why the writer in the
letter to the Hebrews wrote this.
For we do not have a high priest Speaking of Jesus who cannot
sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as
we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to
the throne of grace. You see, you can come boldly to
the throne of grace because it's grace.
You can't come boldly to a throne that says stand back,
Holy See, you keep away. You can come boldly to a throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy.
That's why we can come. We've got to come and get mercy
that which we don't deserve. Find grace when in time of need.
Maybe you're listening tonight. Continue to beat yourself over
and over that you let God down, but you just don't measure up.
A lot of people do that. Well, I can't go to church.
I can't take communion. I failed, you know, it's too
much of A struggle. I'm too much of A hypocrite.
No, stop. Stop saying that you're falling
to the lies of the enemy and and it's weakness.
And we are not to fall for the lies of the enemy.
We are to accept the truth of God.
Listen, because no one measures up.
Everyone else that's in church is having a battle, a struggle.
No one measures up. We've all failed.
We've all been dismal in the way even us here tonight, each one
of us. No one measures up.
We've all sin come short of the glory of God.
There is none righteous. No, not one, the Bible says.
But that's why Jesus came. That's why he died on Calvary.
For you to come now boldly, because it's a throne of grace
into his presence, Prince, we're covered by his righteousness.
God doesn't see us in our sin. Jesus took it away.
God sees us in Christ, in his Son, not in sin.
He sees us in in his Son, not in sin, but in His Son.
Don't shy away from God. Heed his call.
Run to Him and you'll find mercy, grace, and promises that
He will never let you down. Why do we again always emphasise
grace so much here at Calvary Chapel, Secret Harbour?
One, because we teach through the Bible, and the Bible just
speaks of God's grace over and over and over and over.
Because grace is the only thing too, that has brought us thus
far, and it will be the only thing that would Take Me Home to
be with the Lord, not by anything that I do, but by grace
and grace alone. Why?
Because grace allows correctly our Lord to get all the glory.
When I stand before God or God, it's not nothing to do with me,
it's Him. It'll be the only thing that
will Take Me Home to be with my Lord, His grace.
That's why John Newton wrote His grace is what?
Amazing, amazing. Around the throne were 24
Thrones. On the Thrones I saw 24 elders
sitting clothed in white robes and they had crowns of gold on
their heads. And from their throne proceeded
lightnings, thunderings and voices.
Sounds like Mount Sinai, doesn't it?
7 lamps of fire were burning before the throne.
Which are the seven spirits of God?
Who are the 24 elders sitting around the throne?
In the Old Testament, the priesthood was divided into 24
groups. One Chronicles 24 tells us that.
And because the church is called the Kingdom of priests,
Revelation 16, Many Bible scholars believe that the 24
elders speak of representatives of the church with their white
clothing and crowns on their heads.
But an equally valid interpretation is that they are
the 12 patriarchs, 12 tribes, and the 12 apostles, because on
each of the 12 gates in the New Jerusalem, as we read ahead, is
written the name of one of the patriarchs, and on each of the
foundations is the name of the apostles.
Revelation 2112. Also she had a great and high
wall with 12 gates and 12 angels at the gates.
Names written on them, which are the names of the 12 tribes of
the Children of Israel. Revelation 21133 Gates on the E,
3 gates on the N, 3 gates on the South, or three gates on the
West. Verse 14.
Now the wall of the city had 12 foundations. 12 is the number of
government in the Bible, and on them were the names of the 12
apostles of the Lamb. But the real issue here is, I
believe not what they are, but what they do.
They sit in the presence of God continually.
Who did that in the New Testament?
Who was always at the feet of Jesus?
Mary. In the next chapter, they are
the ones, the elders who seek out John, who is weeping and
pointing him to Jesus. We'll see that on Sunday in
verse 10. They worship God in the most
amazing and awesome manner. Do you want or would you like to
be an elder? Would you like to be a minister,
a servant here on the earth for the Lord?
We'll copy the three things that learn from the elders here.
One, sit at the feet of Jesus. That's your daily job, to come
before the Lord, to spend time at the feet of the King of
kings, the Lord of Lords. And not you.
Just go there with a listener. Yeah, that's all I need.
And off to seek the wounded. Be the one who loves your
neighbour. Be the one who sees a crippled,
the one who's struggling. And pray for them.
See the ones who are weeping. And lastly, thirdly, point them
to Jesus, be an Andrew and say come to Christ.
Hey, you need Jesus, come and worship him continually with all
your heart. That's where you need to be.
You're struggling. Oh, I don't feel like going to
church. That's exactly where you need to
be. That's exactly where you need to
be. It's like I'm sick and I'm I
need I broke my arm. You need to go to hospital.
Oh, I'm not going to hospitals because I'm sick.
I've got a broken arm. That's just what make sense.
That's what we do. Let your life be 1 Of continued
worship and service. It was 5 And from the throne
preceded lightnings and thunderings and voices. 7 Lamps
of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven
spirits of God. When you hear Thunder and see
lightning approaching, you know a storm is brewing.
It's about to hit. This letter penned by John,
dictated by Jesus, went out to those who were under enormous
persecution at this time, but also to you and I tonight in
Australia to tell us a storm is coming to our earth, to our
planet, one like never, ever before.
God is about to pour out his judgement upon this world.
Before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal.
And in the midst of the throne, around about the throne with
four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.
The word beast here is literally living creatures.
We find these living creatures also mentioned in Ezekiel, where
we're told that cherubim, the first living creature, was like
a lion, the second like a calf. The third creature faced like a
man. The 4th creature was like a
flying eagle. What's this description?
What's this about? Well, in Matthew's Gospel it
described Jesus as the king, The Lion, King of beasts.
In Mark's gospel, it depicts Jesus as the servant.
What's the servant? The ox.
In a loose gospel we see Jesus in all his humanity and in
John's gospel. Why did John write John's
gospel? So that you and I would see that
Jesus is the Son of God, the eagle, which soars higher than
any other creature. But also the eagle is the only
animal able to look directly into the sun, even as only the
Son of God beholds the glory of the Father.
But there's more. In the Book of Numbers, chapters
one to two, God declares that his people were to camp in a
specific order as they travelled through the wilderness.
The Levites were told to camp close to the Tabernacle on each
of the four directions. Why?
Because those serving the Lord always end up camping closest to
where God's glory is. God allows that privilege to His
serving Saints. In Numbers chapter 2, Moses goes
into greater detail of the tribes of Israel, telling us
that on each of the four sides they were of the Tabernacle were
to be gathered 3 tribes. Judah is a cut and Zebulon
numbered 186,400 were to camp to the east, known as the Camp of
Judah, their symbol the lion, Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin,
numbering 108,100 were to camp on the West side.
Their camp was known as the Camp of Ephraim.
Their symbol, the ox, Reuben, Simeon and Gad 151,400 were to
camp on the South side and we're known as the camp of Reuben.
Their symbol, a man, Dan Naftali and Asher, numbering 157,600
were to camp to the north side. We're known as the camp of Dan,
their symbol and eagle. So with the largest number of
people camped on the east, the smallest number on the West, an
almost similar number of people on the north and the South of
the Tabernacle, what did the camp look like from the Goodyear
blimp as you flew the drone over over the desert?
You know, we get all these drone shots.
What? What did you see when the
prophet Bailon was asked by King Balak to curse the children of
Israel? He went to the mountain and he
overlooked the children of Israel and he saw them camped.
And as he looked down from the mountaintop, he saw what a
massive cross. When you and I are deserving of
cursing, of a time of rebellion, because what?
That's what we're doing when we're murmuring, when we're
complaining, not doing what we should and doing instead what we
shouldn't, God looks at us. He sees us, the light of his
cross, and he stead, he desires to bless us.
We get mercy instead of judgement.
The fall living creatures each having 6 wings were full of eyes
around and within and they do not rest day or night saying
Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
Jesus the same yesterday, today and forever we're in whenever
the living creatures give glory and honour and thanks to Him who
sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever.
The 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and
worship him who lives forever and ever and cast their crowns
before the throne, saying, You are worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honour and power, for you have created all things.
And note this for your pleasure. They are and were created while
they cast their crowns. I knew they don't.
I don't deserve anything. We don't deserve anything.
We sing that song. Let's cast their crowns before
the Lord. A recent poll taken asked the
number of people what they thought was their main purpose
in life. The responses were interesting.
Well you think some would say make a contribution to society
or to have a meaningful life, but most people said well the
main personal purpose of life is enjoyment, personal fulfilment.
50% of those who have polled identified themselves as born
again Christians said the same thing.
Fellow called Philip Bailey said this about life.
He said we live in deeds, not in years, in thoughts not breaths,
in feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs.
He most lives who thinks most feels the noblest acts the best,
and he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest.
Life's butter means unto an end that end God.
Tonight if is your life seemingly just a Monday through
to another Monday with two days jammed there on the weekend just
to break up the monotony to go out and buy stuff?
Are you looking for contentment, trying every new thing that the
magazines say? Get this, this will help you,
this will change it. Do you find yourself irritable
to those around you, you just can't put a finger on it?
And the worst thing is, you don't want to be like that.
You've been created for one purpose.
Did you know that? The Bible says that to know God,
verse 11, the first man, Adam, you got it intimately.
He walked in the Garden of Eden with God in the cool of every
evening, but he broke away from that purpose and removed his
ability to walk with God. From that moment on, the Apostle
Paul was a man who knew he was going and he knew the answer to
his very existence. God made you to worship him.
When you surrender your ways, when you realise that, when you
come to that conclusion, and I have, when you realise your
ways, your goals, your plans, your will, your life is all for
God. You'll be able to say, like
Paul, not that I speak in respect of want, for I have
learned in whatever state I am there with, to be content.
Where do I find this contentment?
You find it in the presence of God.
How do I get into the presence of God?
The presence of God is at the feet of Jesus.
It's the very reason you exist, for you were created, Revelation
tells us, for his purpose.