1
00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,140
And welcome back. It is so good to be back this week.

2
00:01:17,020 --> 00:01:21,700
Got to miss last week for the parade being rescheduled, which was unexpected.

3
00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:24,660
But okay, and I'm glad we still got to go do it.

4
00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:28,860
We ended up giving out, was it 8,000?

5
00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:31,020
A total about 10,000.

6
00:01:31,140 --> 00:01:36,340
Total about 10,000 between Rainsville and Fort Payne Parade.

7
00:01:36,620 --> 00:01:38,540
10,000 little packets with baby Jesus.

8
00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:48,540
Had a little scan thing that we could do to go to our website and our Facebook page on it,

9
00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:51,320
and it had a Bible verse on it.

10
00:01:51,820 --> 00:01:52,100
Awesome.

11
00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:54,560
So we got getting the word out there.

12
00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:04,660
So we know about 10,000 people at least had the chance to hear the word and hear a little bit about it and be directed to, hey, here's a church.

13
00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:05,960
Go check them out.

14
00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:12,000
We still, probably over 8,000 and then went to Fort Payne and we still run out.

15
00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:15,480
That's amazing.

16
00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:18,220
There was probably around 10,000 people at that one parade.

17
00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,760
That's a lot better than a little hard piece of candy, ain't it?

18
00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:21,020
Yeah.

19
00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,160
Yes, it is.

20
00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,460
That's something that you can hold you in your mouth for a long time.

21
00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:25,820
That's right.

22
00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:27,960
Hey, we threw those out, too.

23
00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:28,840
Yeah, we did.

24
00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:29,740
We did, yeah.

25
00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,840
Well, Brother Brian, how are you doing today?

26
00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:32,260
Good.

27
00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:33,480
Yeah, wonderful, man.

28
00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:34,600
It's a good day.

29
00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:35,240
Good day.

30
00:02:35,370 --> 00:02:39,440
So cold, but, you know, it didn't stop us.

31
00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:43,260
Hey, at least it's cold and dry and not cold and rainy.

32
00:02:43,390 --> 00:02:43,680
That's right.

33
00:02:45,460 --> 00:02:46,500
How about you, Brother Dennis?

34
00:02:46,570 --> 00:02:47,100
You doing all right?

35
00:02:47,180 --> 00:02:48,160
I'm doing great, man.

36
00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,880
Man, I got just on top of the world.

37
00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:52,560
but still praying.

38
00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,140
My cousin, who's been like a brother to me all my life, got a heart.

39
00:02:57,620 --> 00:03:02,760
Transplant began last night at midnight, and everything's going well today so far.

40
00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:03,080
Awesome.

41
00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:05,660
And just keep praying for him.

42
00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:06,140
Yeah.

43
00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:08,620
Anything can happen.

44
00:03:08,630 --> 00:03:10,540
It's just an amazing thing that they can do that.

45
00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:14,360
We were talking about that a little bit earlier, how God's wired us to heal.

46
00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:14,980
Yeah.

47
00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:15,560
Yeah.

48
00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:17,260
And it's pretty awesome.

49
00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:18,840
Yeah, it is.

50
00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:23,080
It is incredible that you can take apart from somebody else and put it in your body and,

51
00:03:23,580 --> 00:03:27,820
you know, assuming everything's mostly compatible because sometimes there is incompatibilities

52
00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:28,660
and you can't do it.

53
00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,660
But when it is, your body just goes, OK, and it deals with it because, you know, as humans,

54
00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:39,720
they're not rewiring the nerves and rewiring the all the little little tiny veins and stuff

55
00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:40,680
that run in between you.

56
00:03:40,740 --> 00:03:43,740
They're just, you know, they just kind of hook it up and stitch it together and say, well,

57
00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:44,640
let's see what happens.

58
00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:48,720
and it's amazing to me that somebody somewhere had to be the first person

59
00:03:48,790 --> 00:03:50,320
going, I wonder what happens when you do this.

60
00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:52,960
Hey, y'all, watch this.

61
00:03:53,820 --> 00:03:54,460
This will work.

62
00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,020
What happens if we take this and put it in there and just kind of stitch it together?

63
00:03:59,220 --> 00:03:59,900
Does it start working?

64
00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:00,780
Hey, look, it did.

65
00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:01,520
Awesome.

66
00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:03,160
So it's amazing.

67
00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:03,540
We are.

68
00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:08,320
Fearfully and wonderfully made from an awesome, awesome, almighty God

69
00:04:09,050 --> 00:04:11,100
who loves us and wants nothing but the best for us.

70
00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,079
And, uh, man, that is, that is the message that we gotta, gotta be taken to people.

71
00:04:16,250 --> 00:04:19,700
And, and we gotta, we, we had a wonderful message Sunday.

72
00:04:20,109 --> 00:04:26,700
Uh, and by wonderful, I mean, uh, our preacher, this random preacher that we have over here

73
00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:30,440
at Mountain View, uh, comes in here Sunday morning and start stepping on everybody's toes,

74
00:04:30,780 --> 00:04:33,520
talking about where we go when we die and talking about how we need to be, you know,

75
00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,540
telling people not to go to hell and here's why.

76
00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,620
And it was, I don't know what he's thinking.

77
00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,380
You mean, you mean hell's real?

78
00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:41,040
Yeah.

79
00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:41,420
Yeah.

80
00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:42,120
What I heard.

81
00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:42,900
It's eternal.

82
00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:43,820
It's eternal.

83
00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:44,660
Real eternal.

84
00:04:45,260 --> 00:04:45,380
Yeah.

85
00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:46,380
It was wild.

86
00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:46,680
Yeah.

87
00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:48,140
Where'd you find that out at?

88
00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:50,160
There's this book.

89
00:04:50,330 --> 00:04:53,160
I mean, it's, I don't, well, it's actually 66 books.

90
00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:53,620
Oh.

91
00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:55,040
Yeah.

92
00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:56,940
And under one cover.

93
00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:57,680
So, yeah.

94
00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,660
Go to all of them and it starts making sense.

95
00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:01,840
And I, I don't know.

96
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,440
I'll be honest with you though.

97
00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:09,000
I felt like yesterday, I told Michaelis, I felt like instead of unpacking something, I just dumped out a whole suitcase yesterday.

98
00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:17,140
it may have been too much but yeah um yeah well i have to admit there there were a couple of times

99
00:05:17,260 --> 00:05:21,660
i kind of felt like you were you know going like here somebody catch this yeah yeah get this get

100
00:05:21,820 --> 00:05:26,820
this get this uh because that was a lot to run through but man that was that was good and uh

101
00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,440
god bless you because we need we need some need some sunday mornings like that every once in a while

102
00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,979
that was one reason i handed out an outline with that one i don't usually do that but uh but yeah

103
00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,140
So just fill in the blanks and go back.

104
00:05:38,260 --> 00:05:38,860
Yeah, here you go.

105
00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:39,480
Follow along.

106
00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:39,940
Yeah.

107
00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:42,620
All right.

108
00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,620
Well, I think we're going to continue on with the book of Revelation.

109
00:05:46,260 --> 00:05:48,920
Chapter 4, verse 9 is where we're picking up this week.

110
00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:58,200
Before we get into it, the only real stuff from the newsworthy, I've been very grateful that things are relatively quiet right now.

111
00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,560
But I do want to point out, I'm sure a lot of people have been seeing a little bit about it.

112
00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:18,280
Right after our broadcast two weeks ago, I found out about the situation of the University of Oklahoma student that was failed from a class because she was asked to do an essay that was reacting to an article about transgenderism and all this stuff.

113
00:06:18,940 --> 00:06:25,420
She wrote it and the teacher failed her because she mentioned the Bible and she mentioned her Christian faith and all of that in it.

114
00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,320
And, you know, there's a big, big fight and argument going on online.

115
00:06:30,220 --> 00:06:40,480
And the only thing that really bothers me about the whole situation, I'm a little disappointed in Turning Point USA and the way their messaging is around this.

116
00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,860
Because the girl did an OK job.

117
00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:45,800
It's a low level class.

118
00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:50,740
You're not expected to be a particularly good essay writer at that level.

119
00:06:52,020 --> 00:06:52,480
So she did.

120
00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:53,720
She did an OK job.

121
00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:57,780
But she definitely, you know, going in and saying like, oh, she should have gotten a 100 for this.

122
00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,420
It's like everybody slow down.

123
00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,300
partial credit because she did kind of start one way and then just kind of completely drop the whole

124
00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:10,920
point of her essay and it got off in the arguing about transgenderism as a whole and it's like no

125
00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,320
no you were you were arguing a specific thing from the article you needed to stay on that but that's

126
00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,860
that's a maturity thing and a growing thing and an opportunity for a teacher to go hey you did an

127
00:07:20,950 --> 00:07:25,140
okay job i get where you're going with this but you were supposed to be on this topic and you just

128
00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,380
kind of went off and argued a much broader discussion.

129
00:07:30,020 --> 00:07:33,160
And it would have been nice to kind of see some of the folks that were out there on their

130
00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,300
end defending her saying, you know, look, this wasn't a perfect

131
00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:41,220
score, but it wasn't a zero, maybe a C.

132
00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:43,660
You know, it's a learning opportunity.

133
00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,260
And the only reason I say that is when we go out and defend people, definitely defend them when they

134
00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,380
need to be defended as other Christians and if you're helping kids in church and stuff.

135
00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:58,380
But be honest with them, too. Don't don't be afraid to look at and say, OK, look, I'm looking at your rubric here.

136
00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,060
And, you know, and you got to you got to show that you actually read the article.

137
00:08:01,260 --> 00:08:07,040
You mention it once. You've got to make sure you don't just summarize it.

138
00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,760
You didn't. That's good. Ten points for that. And OK, you get five points for being real clear.

139
00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:14,820
Well, you said you're you're you're going to talk about this and then you never mention it again.

140
00:08:15,060 --> 00:08:17,720
So you weren't real clear what you were saying in here.

141
00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:21,960
That would that that actually helps the person. It's not meant to hurt.

142
00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:23,020
It's not meant to damage them.

143
00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:25,040
And we as Christians, we need to help each other.

144
00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,760
We need to help each other grow and learn and learn how to communicate in a way that's appropriate.

145
00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:36,020
Brother Roger Graham from down the road actually talked about that Saturday, I think it was.

146
00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:41,440
He put up a post about some of the stuff that's going on with some of the conservative commentators right now.

147
00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:56,840
And, you know, one of the things he pointed out was the way we communicate is so, so vitally important as Christians to make sure that you're not either lying by omission or lying by implication or something like that.

148
00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:02,420
That if you're going to say something, you need to just say it and be clear and be precise with it.

149
00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:08,140
And the example he gave was Adrian Rogers told the story of when he was older, he got pulled over for speeding.

150
00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,160
You know, he was running like 77 and a 55 or something.

151
00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:16,520
And the officer walked up to him and said, well, I clocked you going however fast back here.

152
00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,420
And he just looked at I was and, you know, got his ticket or whatever and went on down the road.

153
00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:23,960
And he was, you know, heading on home.

154
00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:27,900
And all of a sudden he said, man, the spirit got on me and you just lied to him.

155
00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:29,320
What? No, I didn't.

156
00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:31,180
All I did was ask a question.

157
00:09:31,770 --> 00:09:37,640
He said, and then he said, and the spirit just stayed on me and said, I said, the way you looked at him and the way you asked that question.

158
00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:43,680
Made it seem like you didn't know how fast you were going and you knew exactly how fast you were driving that whole time.

159
00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,800
I thought, oh, oh, Lord.

160
00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:54,240
And and I mean, to hear it from somebody like Adrian Rogers, you know, that that it was good as gold.

161
00:09:54,300 --> 00:10:01,520
I mean, to know that he got convicted even on something like that, I'm like, that's something we as Christians have to be really good at is that communication.

162
00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,340
And, you know, one of the ways we communicate is through writing.

163
00:10:04,420 --> 00:10:08,720
So when you're working with your kids, you're working with your students that come to you with a problem with school or something.

164
00:10:08,980 --> 00:10:10,620
And yeah, definitely go to bat for them.

165
00:10:10,620 --> 00:10:15,920
If somebody does like that teacher did me like now you're getting a zero because you brought God into this like, oh, hang on.

166
00:10:16,460 --> 00:10:18,080
Did they communicate what they're supposed to communicate?

167
00:10:18,340 --> 00:10:21,280
If not, let's talk to them about it and fix it and teach them how to communicate properly.

168
00:10:22,180 --> 00:10:30,720
And that's that's what we got to do as Christians, especially older Christians, helping out the younger ones, because we want them to come up in an age where we can communicate, where we can sit down and do studies.

169
00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,780
And you can, you can, you know how to make notes, you know how to communicate it, to talk to somebody else about it.

170
00:10:37,390 --> 00:10:44,780
I heard a pastor say today, or actually not a pastor, he's just a Christian commentator.

171
00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:54,280
And he was talking about, you know, one of the problems with churches today being so shallow and just trying so hard to get everybody in that they never bring up anything remotely uncomfortable.

172
00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:56,320
They don't have sermons like we had Sunday.

173
00:10:56,350 --> 00:10:59,420
They don't have sermons where they talk about hell.

174
00:10:59,580 --> 00:11:06,600
They don't have sermons where they talk about revelation and they talk about what's coming and and they try to just keep everything real happy and woohoo.

175
00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:07,400
It's good.

176
00:11:07,670 --> 00:11:07,760
Yeah.

177
00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:08,080
Yeah.

178
00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,660
We don't we love everybody here.

179
00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:11,380
OK.

180
00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,660
I'm not saying don't love them, but can we speak truth to them?

181
00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:16,260
And if we love them.

182
00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:16,640
Yeah.

183
00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:17,940
If we love them, we have to.

184
00:11:18,260 --> 00:11:24,920
And he was talking about that and he said, you know, but the thing is, the church isn't where you're supposed to be bringing people as Christians.

185
00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:27,620
The church is for us together as believers.

186
00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,120
The drawing people and the getting them saved is what we're supposed to do when we go outside.

187
00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,380
And I went, I don't like that.

188
00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:38,680
I don't like thinking.

189
00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,520
Wait, you mean I'm supposed to be witnessing to people every day?

190
00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,000
I'm supposed to be telling people?

191
00:11:43,110 --> 00:11:49,100
I'm supposed to be in my words and my actions and my dealings and the way I deal with people at business and the way I deal with people at work?

192
00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,160
I'm supposed to be showing Christ to them?

193
00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:58,640
That's a terribly, terribly uncomfortable thing.

194
00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,780
I just realized that the audio side was getting none of the talking just now.

195
00:12:03,020 --> 00:12:03,140
Whoops.

196
00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:11,620
But I just realized that's a thing that is very uncomfortable for us because, yeah, church is where we are together together as believers.

197
00:12:11,850 --> 00:12:19,760
That is where we get together and we encourage each other and we worship our God and we pray and we get the filling of the spirit here.

198
00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,660
That's what church is for.

199
00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:24,480
But then we're supposed to take it and go out in the world with it.

200
00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:25,040
And we're supposed to.

201
00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,860
That's where the saving messages are supposed to be given.

202
00:12:28,020 --> 00:12:30,020
That's where the drawing messages are supposed to be given.

203
00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:31,560
And that's on each of us.

204
00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:32,340
That's not on the preacher.

205
00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:33,600
That's not on the Sunday school teachers.

206
00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:37,880
And, you know, I think I forget that sometimes as a Christian.

207
00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,640
Oh, yeah, I'm supposed to be out here really setting that example and really being that that light and salt.

208
00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,660
And, you know, I think sometimes we forget that.

209
00:12:45,820 --> 00:12:51,660
And again, going back to that statement I made about the communication.

210
00:12:52,180 --> 00:12:53,000
That's why it's so important.

211
00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:54,440
We've got to make sure that we're doing that.

212
00:12:54,820 --> 00:12:55,980
And yeah, yeah, definitely.

213
00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:57,220
I need to do better.

214
00:12:57,580 --> 00:12:58,340
All of us.

215
00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:02,720
But anyway, so that brings us back to Revelation.

216
00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,720
We last week finished up verse eight.

217
00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:12,940
And in that we were, it was talking about seeing the incredible angel with the, the living

218
00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:17,420
creatures with six wings and full of eyes all around and inside and then it and rest day

219
00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:21,280
or night saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord, the all powerful who was and who is and who

220
00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:21,960
is to come.

221
00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:38,240
And that is such a powerful statement and such an incredible, incredible thing that we as Christians do have to remember is that our God is, as Dennis is very fond of pointing out, holy, holy, holy.

222
00:13:39,739 --> 00:13:41,660
And we've got to make sure we remember that.

223
00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,600
And then, of course, that brings us into verse nine.

224
00:13:45,580 --> 00:13:46,060
Go ahead, bro.

225
00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:46,700
All right.

226
00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,480
Let's just read the rest of it.

227
00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:48,860
Yeah.

228
00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:49,380
Is it OK?

229
00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:49,700
Yeah.

230
00:13:50,180 --> 00:13:50,460
All right.

231
00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:55,120
And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne,

232
00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,080
to him who lives forever and ever,

233
00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:01,260
the 24 elders will fall down before him who sits on the throne

234
00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:03,660
and will worship him who lives forever and ever

235
00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:06,680
and will cast their crowns before the throne saying,

236
00:14:07,180 --> 00:14:10,980
Worthy are you, O Lord and our God, our Lord and our God,

237
00:14:11,180 --> 00:14:14,920
to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things.

238
00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:17,860
And because of your will, they existed and were created.

239
00:14:18,180 --> 00:14:18,980
Yeah. Amen.

240
00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:24,240
This is, man, chapters four and five are just a scene from heaven of worship.

241
00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:29,000
Yeah, this is the first great worship scene that we see in heaven.

242
00:14:29,780 --> 00:14:31,700
And, God, what a time it's going to be.

243
00:14:31,780 --> 00:14:31,880
Yeah.

244
00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,200
Yeah, I can't wait.

245
00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:33,620
Yeah.

246
00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,300
It's so exciting, isn't it?

247
00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:36,580
Yeah, I can't even imagine.

248
00:14:37,330 --> 00:14:42,080
I mean, you take the most intense worship session you've ever had here and multiply it by infinity.

249
00:14:42,620 --> 00:14:42,720
Yeah.

250
00:14:44,260 --> 00:14:45,440
I can't even imagine.

251
00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:46,020
That's it.

252
00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,900
Yeah, you got these beasts that are worshiping him,

253
00:14:50,010 --> 00:14:52,020
and then now the church is joining in

254
00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,280
in this just wonderful, holy celebration of Jesus.

255
00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:56,860
Yeah.

256
00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:57,340
Man.

257
00:14:57,580 --> 00:14:59,880
I wish I could just picture it in my mind just for a second.

258
00:15:00,060 --> 00:15:03,180
Yeah, just, oh, God, the euphoria from that would just like,

259
00:15:04,630 --> 00:15:04,740
man.

260
00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,080
And the thing we got to think about is the life of Christ,

261
00:15:09,980 --> 00:15:12,260
as the life of Christ never ends,

262
00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,740
neither does the life of the saints, right?

263
00:15:14,780 --> 00:15:14,940
Right.

264
00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,660
We're going to live forever and ever just like him.

265
00:15:19,140 --> 00:15:20,640
And neither does the praising.

266
00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,080
We're going to praise him forever and ever and ever.

267
00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:24,780
With the joy.

268
00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:25,780
The joy, man.

269
00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,300
That world's just seeking this joy.

270
00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:35,280
And this thing is going to be, I just imagine when we die, that moment of death,

271
00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,820
being absent from the body and present with the Lord, face to face with Jesus,

272
00:15:39,060 --> 00:15:43,280
all the love we've ever imagined, all the joy we've ever imagined, peace,

273
00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:45,360
all these things that he is.

274
00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:45,800
That's right.

275
00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,760
You know, and just the weight, just weightless.

276
00:15:49,260 --> 00:15:49,380
Yeah.

277
00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,320
All this junk we carry around every day is gone.

278
00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:52,940
It is.

279
00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:53,260
It is.

280
00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:55,240
And our worship's going to be pure.

281
00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,940
I mean, God, I mean, that's like you said, all the baggage is gone.

282
00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,180
All the mess is gone.

283
00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:06,900
And now we're just standing before the Lord and we're worshiping him in true spirit and truth.

284
00:16:07,260 --> 00:16:09,640
I mean, it's just, it's unimaginable.

285
00:16:09,740 --> 00:16:10,480
It's perfection.

286
00:16:11,739 --> 00:16:13,000
Perfect worship, right?

287
00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,540
I mean, that's wonderful.

288
00:16:15,020 --> 00:16:17,000
And it's the main activity here.

289
00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,520
You know, I mean, if you don't like worship, then you probably don't want to go to heaven.

290
00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,780
You know, I may have mentioned it on the show here before, but I had somebody tell me one time,

291
00:16:28,060 --> 00:16:34,260
yeah, I think heaven's going to be, you know, it's going to be solemn and quiet and just in awe of the Lord.

292
00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,160
You know, I'm like, yeah, in awe of the Lord, but it ain't going to be quiet.

293
00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:37,860
It ain't going to be quiet.

294
00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:39,980
No, no, no, I believe.

295
00:16:40,020 --> 00:16:44,740
No, these living creatures, it calls them in my version.

296
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,580
These things sound like thunder.

297
00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:47,140
Yeah.

298
00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:47,580
Yeah.

299
00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:48,380
They're loud.

300
00:16:48,530 --> 00:16:49,380
Yeah, they are.

301
00:16:49,570 --> 00:16:50,700
Yeah, they're making some noise.

302
00:16:50,860 --> 00:16:51,920
I'm making some noise.

303
00:16:55,380 --> 00:17:05,939
Well, I mean, it's one of those things that when you look back at the scriptures and you look at the things that Christ said and you look at the way he commanded his disciples, I mean, he never told them to be quiet.

304
00:17:06,010 --> 00:17:08,100
He never told them, hey, don't tell people who I am.

305
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,140
Be silent and be reverent.

306
00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:17,900
And you got to remember that I'm I am God in flesh and you have to be super quiet and don't don't be asking me for anything and don't be talking to me.

307
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,600
Don't be singing praise to me. I mean, goodness.

308
00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:25,120
They have an entire book in the Old Testament written that is about singing called songs.

309
00:17:25,630 --> 00:17:28,560
And it's nothing but the songs that they sang of praise to God.

310
00:17:29,090 --> 00:17:30,500
And that's just in the Old Testament.

311
00:17:30,740 --> 00:17:37,180
And I mean, we we we have the you know, we have the scripture tells us that if we are silent, even the rocks will start crying out.

312
00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,320
I mean, there's a place for it, though, you know.

313
00:17:39,420 --> 00:17:42,220
But I wonder if we'll have snot that we can sling.

314
00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:45,900
Holy snot.

315
00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,380
That's not something.

316
00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,380
There's some of that on you right there.

317
00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:52,140
That's not.

318
00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:55,320
When that joy takes over, you ain't going to be quiet, right?

319
00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:55,640
No.

320
00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:56,340
Well, how could you?

321
00:17:56,740 --> 00:17:56,860
Yeah.

322
00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:04,520
It's even the creator of the universe standing in front of you with nothing, nothing between you and him.

323
00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:05,840
Nothing veiling him.

324
00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,820
And loving you the way he loves us.

325
00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:08,380
Yeah.

326
00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,000
And knowing that and feeling that.

327
00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,160
I preach to some of them people that are not.

328
00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:14,860
They're just like, hello.

329
00:18:15,780 --> 00:18:16,220
Eeyore.

330
00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:18,520
Can you make me smile, preacher?

331
00:18:21,260 --> 00:18:22,140
Everything's bad.

332
00:18:26,140 --> 00:18:27,380
I feel sorry for them.

333
00:18:28,220 --> 00:18:30,340
And like I said, I know everybody doesn't worship the same,

334
00:18:30,370 --> 00:18:32,840
and we've talked about that before, but I believe in heaven.

335
00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:34,540
Gosh, it's just going to be.

336
00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:34,800
Let loose.

337
00:18:35,020 --> 00:18:35,420
Let loose.

338
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:37,200
Let her rip, Tater-Shit.

339
00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:38,320
Let it go.

340
00:18:39,740 --> 00:18:46,380
and and then and then the casting the crowns right i mean uh not the band no not not the band not

341
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:52,920
not the good man they've listened to for years but uh we this is where they get their name though

342
00:18:52,930 --> 00:19:01,940
if i'm not mistaken it is it very much is we want to keep our crowns because um or we're not going

343
00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:07,660
to keep our crowns because we're not kings right so so the crowns that we receive we're giving it

344
00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:14,280
back to him and and and and so we'll give the crowns to to who it belongs to that's like our

345
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,440
trumps and our victories and stuff everything that we've done and it reminds me of paul in

346
00:19:18,660 --> 00:19:23,440
philippians 3 which says uh if anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh i far more

347
00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:28,880
circumcised the eighth day of the nation of israel the tribe of benjamin a hebrew of hebrews as to

348
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,940
the law of pharisee is to zeal a persecutor of the church the righteousness which is in the law

349
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:38,420
found blameless but whatever things were gained to me cast that ground that's right that's right

350
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:45,360
amen count them as rubbish that's it but nothing to gain christ yeah all the victories we all the

351
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,880
great things that we've ever done i'm yeah i ain't ever done anything great but some people have and

352
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:57,060
sure that's all because of jesus and that crown belongs to him yeah amen amen and to get to and

353
00:19:57,220 --> 00:20:02,920
get to just give him something right yeah i mean that's why that's why we work here that's why we

354
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:08,700
here because he deserves it and there's nothing we can do to repay him but we work to be able to

355
00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:13,460
earn these crowns now we're not earning our salvation so don't get mixed up here this is

356
00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:19,660
after you're saved we worked yeah so we were we were rewarded with these crowns so that we can

357
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:25,240
give them back to the one who deserves it all yeah oh man what a what a wonderful picture that is

358
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:31,480
that's what i'd say and that that you know i always go to that the the uniqueness of christianity we

359
00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:37,020
get nothing for our work. We get nothing. There's nothing that we get to keep. There's nothing that

360
00:20:37,020 --> 00:20:41,900
we can glory in. There's nothing that we can say this earned us anything. It is literally just,

361
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,260
I did what I was supposed to do because you told me I was supposed to do it because I've been

362
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,480
commanded to do it because it's the right thing to do. And now I have something to give back to my

363
00:20:51,780 --> 00:20:57,280
creator and to give back to my God, to give back to my King. That came from him in the first place.

364
00:20:57,340 --> 00:21:01,360
Yeah, it's awesome.

365
00:21:01,540 --> 00:21:02,480
It's totally recycling.

366
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:03,240
Exactly.

367
00:21:03,620 --> 00:21:06,260
Yeah, it's his and I'm just giving it back to him.

368
00:21:07,060 --> 00:21:09,280
He just gave it to me as a way to say thanks.

369
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:10,060
Yeah, yeah.

370
00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:16,740
And again, this is not saying that God's not requiring us saying you have to give this back to me.

371
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:17,480
No, it is.

372
00:21:18,220 --> 00:21:21,280
This is John looking at it and saying this is what happened.

373
00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:22,800
This is what I saw happening.

374
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:23,180
Yeah.

375
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,320
Because why wouldn't you?

376
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:25,680
Yeah.

377
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,220
It's His anyway.

378
00:21:27,380 --> 00:21:27,820
Exactly.

379
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,780
We need to live our lives in this life the same way as stewards and not owners.

380
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:33,440
That's right.

381
00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:33,640
Right.

382
00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:39,420
And everything we have, whether it's health, whether it's whatever it is, it came from Him.

383
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,480
And it'll make us live life a different way.

384
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:41,860
It will.

385
00:21:41,980 --> 00:21:42,820
I mean, it really will.

386
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:52,720
If we understand that this life that we have is not ours and that it does all belong to Him, then, gosh, we should take much better care of it all.

387
00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:53,120
Yeah.

388
00:21:53,260 --> 00:21:57,120
And we know, too, you know, that rewards are a thing.

389
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:57,980
Yes, absolutely.

390
00:21:58,130 --> 00:22:00,160
He piles them on us when we do his work.

391
00:22:00,430 --> 00:22:03,820
I mean, the parable of the talents that we read, Matthew 24 or 5.

392
00:22:04,060 --> 00:22:04,240
Yeah.

393
00:22:05,940 --> 00:22:08,340
Go out and invest that faith.

394
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:09,740
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

395
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,100
Which tells me that, you know, heaven, as far as rewards at least are concerned,

396
00:22:14,210 --> 00:22:16,060
is not going to be the same for everybody, right?

397
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,620
I mean, if you're standing beside Billy, if Billy Graham's standing there,

398
00:22:21,620 --> 00:22:22,660
I'm going to say, just move on.

399
00:22:27,220 --> 00:22:28,780
If you don't care, stand by Paul.

400
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,220
Stand by John or ever later.

401
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,100
Can you guys all move over there?

402
00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:35,660
You're making the rest of us look bad.

403
00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:37,860
Peter, you got a big mouth.

404
00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:40,100
You can stand close, but I still don't want to be too close to you.

405
00:22:44,159 --> 00:22:48,920
But then it says that he created all things.

406
00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:55,460
And this is why everyone's worshiping him, because he's created it all.

407
00:22:55,580 --> 00:23:03,600
The elders which were present at the church, and we're representing him not only for creating,

408
00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:07,480
but for living and for dying and for saving.

409
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,440
I mean, man, there's so much to thank him for.

410
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:11,720
Amen.

411
00:23:12,380 --> 00:23:12,700
Amen.

412
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:13,240
Thank you.

413
00:23:13,540 --> 00:23:13,700
Amen.

414
00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:15,040
And he holds all things together.

415
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:16,080
Yeah.

416
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:16,500
Yeah.

417
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,620
And as for the pleasure, they are and were created.

418
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,360
Two things here that I'd like to point out.

419
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:29,620
One, we are created for one purpose, and that is to bring glory to Jesus Christ.

420
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,140
That's to bring glory to God.

421
00:23:31,420 --> 00:23:33,020
I mean, that's who we are.

422
00:23:35,980 --> 00:23:41,900
I think sometimes I had a thought today that that's surprising in its own.

423
00:23:43,580 --> 00:23:47,620
But I was thinking today while I was driving and I thought, you know, we as a church,

424
00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:50,560
we look at church

425
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,100
okay we come here on Sunday

426
00:23:53,250 --> 00:23:53,860
and we worship

427
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,840
we come here on Wednesday night and we open our Bibles

428
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,040
and we worship

429
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:00,640
and we look at it

430
00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:01,620
as this building

431
00:24:01,750 --> 00:24:03,200
of course we know we talked about that before

432
00:24:03,580 --> 00:24:04,800
it's not about a building

433
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:06,860
but the Bible tells us

434
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:08,920
do you not realize

435
00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:11,180
that you are the temple

436
00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:11,920
of God

437
00:24:12,060 --> 00:24:14,440
we're not going in and out of the temple

438
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,000
we're going in and out of this building

439
00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:20,560
we're not going in and out of the temple we are we are the temple that's right and we house him all

440
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:27,140
the time and and it should be constant constantly we should be reminded that our purpose is to

441
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:33,720
glorify this god who loved us so much yeah yeah and and the motivation you know that that's another

442
00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:38,700
thing that strikes me about about being in heaven everybody there's got pure motives yeah yeah nobody's

443
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:44,720
selfish yeah that sin's gone yeah yeah amen and and and that motivation to to love other people

444
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,980
and to worship him is, man, that's just, you won't have an off day.

445
00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:50,440
No, no, no.

446
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,660
And here it says also you are created and you were created.

447
00:24:56,260 --> 00:24:58,020
That means past, present, and future.

448
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,400
Every, I mean, even during this time of tribulation,

449
00:25:02,419 --> 00:25:08,280
anything that has life breathed into it is made for the purpose,

450
00:25:08,430 --> 00:25:11,740
the very purpose of worshiping Jesus, worshiping God.

451
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:13,680
So you make a choice, right?

452
00:25:13,940 --> 00:25:17,980
whether or not you fulfill the purpose that you've been created for.

453
00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:18,460
Amen.

454
00:25:19,780 --> 00:25:20,020
Amen.

455
00:25:22,060 --> 00:25:24,040
Anything else in chapter four we want to hit?

456
00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:25,380
I think that's got it.

457
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:25,920
All right.

458
00:25:26,020 --> 00:25:26,260
We'll see.

459
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:27,840
No, five, chapter five.

460
00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:29,760
Chapter five.

461
00:25:31,260 --> 00:25:32,540
Another chapter coming up.

462
00:25:33,140 --> 00:25:33,360
Yeah.

463
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:35,820
Let's see.

464
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:36,260
Let's go.

465
00:25:37,180 --> 00:25:38,980
Let's hit that first verse there.

466
00:25:39,060 --> 00:25:47,320
And I saw on the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals.

467
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:52,260
So here we're getting into a little bit of the seals and how they unfold.

468
00:25:55,540 --> 00:25:56,400
Not that kind of seal.

469
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,240
Yeah, that was an awesome impression.

470
00:25:58,380 --> 00:25:59,140
I thought it was awesome.

471
00:25:59,190 --> 00:25:59,660
That was great.

472
00:25:59,810 --> 00:26:00,160
I did.

473
00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:01,460
Let's see if I can do something with the microphone.

474
00:26:02,270 --> 00:26:04,420
I nearly threw you a little fish or something.

475
00:26:04,630 --> 00:26:04,800
I didn't know.

476
00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:16,340
but yeah so the the tribe was uh the tribe was the center of chapter four uh but now the lion

477
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:21,500
and the lamb which both represent christ are the center of chapter five right i mean that's what

478
00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:27,320
we're that's what we're looking at here so we start with we start with the word and which indicates

479
00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:34,199
that uh uh with the word and which indicates that something went on before then right

480
00:26:34,220 --> 00:26:36,340
John says, I saw.

481
00:26:37,060 --> 00:26:39,000
John is the witness of these things.

482
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,140
He is seeing and hearing what is taking place.

483
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:51,640
Now, what we have here is a scroll held in God the Father's hand, rolled up and sealed seven times.

484
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:59,760
And this is said to be the title deed to this world is the way some people look at it.

485
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,740
This is what he's holding here.

486
00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:03,220
But God created it.

487
00:27:03,340 --> 00:27:07,780
He redeemed it, and it's all his, but he's about to hand it over to his son.

488
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,240
He's about to hand the title deed to this world over to his son, Jesus Christ.

489
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,120
Daniel chapter 7, verse 13 and 14 says,

490
00:27:17,140 --> 00:27:22,380
I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man came in the clouds of heaven

491
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,580
and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.

492
00:27:28,020 --> 00:27:36,640
And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations, and languages should serve him.

493
00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:43,400
His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away in his kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed.

494
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:51,340
So, yeah, the Lord that saved us, the one that saved our souls, he's got it all.

495
00:27:51,580 --> 00:27:54,120
What belongs to the Father is his.

496
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:54,720
Amen.

497
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:55,480
Amen.

498
00:27:55,540 --> 00:28:00,640
And this scroll, it's kind of a little bit mysterious to me,

499
00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:04,900
because when I always think of it as just a scroll rolled up,

500
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,140
but it says it's written on the front and the back.

501
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:08,400
Yeah.

502
00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:10,640
Shows the without and within.

503
00:28:11,060 --> 00:28:11,180
Right.

504
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,040
But I've always thought of this scroll as being like one piece rolled up

505
00:28:15,140 --> 00:28:16,320
and seven seals across it.

506
00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:20,940
But maybe it's like seven sections and seven seals.

507
00:28:20,940 --> 00:28:25,240
So when he opens one, it reveals that, and he opens another one.

508
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:26,500
and it reveals another piece.

509
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:28,160
Yeah, I don't know either.

510
00:28:28,380 --> 00:28:28,620
I don't know.

511
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:29,660
Yeah, good thought, though.

512
00:28:29,820 --> 00:28:31,160
They don't really describe it that well,

513
00:28:31,740 --> 00:28:35,320
but it does indicate that there's some kind of chronology to this.

514
00:28:35,390 --> 00:28:35,900
Yeah, yeah.

515
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,320
And that he opens them in order.

516
00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:38,920
That's right.

517
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,140
And that the seventh, the seven seals are the entirety of Revelation.

518
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:43,520
Yeah.

519
00:28:43,660 --> 00:28:44,880
Everything that's going to be poured out

520
00:28:44,970 --> 00:28:47,580
because the seventh seal ends up being trumpets and bowls.

521
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:48,440
Yeah, that's right.

522
00:28:48,890 --> 00:28:48,980
Amen.

523
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,680
And once that seventh seal is complete,

524
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:52,160
that seventh bowl is complete.

525
00:28:52,540 --> 00:28:52,900
That's right.

526
00:28:52,950 --> 00:28:53,840
The bowls are poured out.

527
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:54,260
Yeah.

528
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,100
Zechariah talks a little bit about what the roll is.

529
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,300
Zechariah chapter 5, verse 1 through 3.

530
00:29:01,460 --> 00:29:01,800
It says,

531
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,500
Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a flying roll.

532
00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:09,060
And he said unto me, What seest thou?

533
00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:11,360
And I answered, I see a flying roll.

534
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,780
This is not one of those that, what is that place?

535
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:15,580
Lambert's.

536
00:29:15,580 --> 00:29:16,540
Oh, yeah, Lambert's.

537
00:29:16,540 --> 00:29:17,220
Not Lambert's.

538
00:29:17,540 --> 00:29:23,260
But the length thereof is 20 cubits, and the breadth thereof is 10 cubits.

539
00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:24,840
Then said he unto me,

540
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,780
This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth.

541
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,840
For every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it,

542
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,100
and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on this side according to it.

543
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:38,900
Yeah.

544
00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:41,680
So a little picture of the roll there.

545
00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:43,380
You know, God is really...

546
00:29:43,380 --> 00:29:44,200
Twenty cubits.

547
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,140
That's huge, ain't it?

548
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:45,380
Yeah.

549
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:46,240
What is a cubit?

550
00:29:46,340 --> 00:29:46,960
It's like...

551
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,840
Three, is it?

552
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:50,820
I'll have to look that back up.

553
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,360
I will too.

554
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:51,660
Yeah.

555
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,100
It's a really long distance.

556
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,400
It's not like one of them was like elbow to fingertip, something like that.

557
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,380
This was way longer.

558
00:29:59,540 --> 00:30:00,320
Yeah, absolutely.

559
00:30:01,020 --> 00:30:06,440
And I always thought it's interesting that what's really important, God writes it down.

560
00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:07,700
Yeah, it is.

561
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,900
And a scroll contains things that are written.

562
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,080
That means it's predetermined.

563
00:30:12,340 --> 00:30:13,400
It is going to happen.

564
00:30:13,540 --> 00:30:14,120
Yeah, amen.

565
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:14,740
Amen.

566
00:30:15,020 --> 00:30:16,300
It's absolutely going to happen.

567
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,840
It's like the Word of God that we're going through and studying.

568
00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:20,820
It's written.

569
00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:21,520
It is.

570
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:22,240
It's in stone.

571
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:28,940
written word of god so that we may see it hear it feel it know it yeah trust in it and preach it

572
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:35,220
yeah no no hearsay no rumors no no no in between and that's what you know that's what gets me so

573
00:30:35,570 --> 00:30:41,620
uh tore up i listen i know and we've talked about things in here that there there are things that

574
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:47,920
that are secondary and tertiary there's things that that we may not you know it's like ah it could

575
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,280
be this it could be i mean just like what you were saying about the seals you know maybe it could be

576
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:56,960
like this maybe it could be like this we don't know you know but there's so many specific things

577
00:30:57,180 --> 00:31:04,660
that that god tells us in his word just like hell being eternal right i mean that there are or at

578
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:10,720
least uh at least uh the lake of fire is eternal you know but we're gonna we're gonna spend eternity

579
00:31:11,140 --> 00:31:15,660
somewhere and either you're lost or you're saved and if you're lost you're gonna spend eternity in

580
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,940
the lake of fire it's part of being made in his image right yeah yeah you've got an eternal soul

581
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:29,180
That's right. But there's no gray area in the terms of eternity, right?

582
00:31:29,290 --> 00:31:33,880
I mean, eternity is eternity. It doesn't say for you it's this long, for you it's this long.

583
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,380
No, it's eternal. Your soul is eternal.

584
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,020
Yeah, I like what you said yesterday. It's like, well, maybe I talked about hell too much, but Jesus did too.

585
00:31:45,420 --> 00:31:46,200
He did.

586
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,340
Yeah, he did.

587
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,860
I mean, it's motivation.

588
00:31:50,530 --> 00:31:51,940
Yeah, it absolutely is.

589
00:31:52,030 --> 00:31:52,900
It absolutely is.

590
00:31:52,910 --> 00:31:57,040
And I think we, you know, a lot of hellfire and brimstone preachers,

591
00:31:57,180 --> 00:31:59,720
and I'm not saying every message has to be a hellfire and brimstone.

592
00:32:01,060 --> 00:32:04,000
Number one, you know, be led by the Spirit.

593
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,840
And if the Spirit of God tells you to preach hellfire and brimstone, preach it.

594
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,320
But if he tells you to preach love, mercy, and grace this Sunday, then preach it.

595
00:32:12,450 --> 00:32:15,460
You know, but there's love, mercy, and grace in every message, right?

596
00:32:15,510 --> 00:32:15,980
There should be.

597
00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,460
But we've got to follow the Spirit of God.

598
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:23,880
And, you know, hey, so argue with him.

599
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:24,660
Yeah.

600
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,040
Argue with a written word.

601
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:27,680
Did you?

602
00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:29,400
Yeah, I was just looking at that.

603
00:32:29,570 --> 00:32:36,140
And so the Ark Encounter, oddly enough, has a listing of how long a cubit is because, you know, they had to build an ark.

604
00:32:37,780 --> 00:32:44,560
And the short cubit is about 17 and a half inches, whereas the long cubit is about 20.6 inches.

605
00:32:44,820 --> 00:32:44,940
Okay.

606
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:46,180
Maybe it is that.

607
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,580
Yeah, it's the length of your elbow to the tip of your finger.

608
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:49,960
Yeah.

609
00:32:51,060 --> 00:32:53,300
But, yeah, that was – I actually didn't even realize that.

610
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,180
The arc's 300 cubits.

611
00:32:55,340 --> 00:32:57,520
It's 500 and something feet long.

612
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:58,340
Wow.

613
00:32:58,800 --> 00:32:59,160
That's crazy.

614
00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:03,860
So when you see these measurements, I mean, you're taking that and multiply it, basically just multiply it by 20.

615
00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:05,520
That's an impressive place, too.

616
00:33:06,020 --> 00:33:06,760
That's really impressive.

617
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:07,240
I hear it's all.

618
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,920
Yeah, we've been wanting to go for several years, and we just haven't had a chance to.

619
00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:12,580
It's pretty cool.

620
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:12,960
Yeah.

621
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:13,960
Go ahead.

622
00:33:14,460 --> 00:33:14,800
Verse two.

623
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:15,680
Verse two.

624
00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:19,240
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice,

625
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,680
who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals.

626
00:33:27,140 --> 00:33:28,440
Maybe verse three along with that.

627
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,100
No one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book

628
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:34,300
or to look into it.

629
00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:34,720
Yeah.

630
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:35,420
Yeah.

631
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:41,040
You know, maybe that's where they get that verse in the song,

632
00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:43,160
searched all over heaven to try to find a savior.

633
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:43,980
Maybe.

634
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:44,760
I don't know.

635
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:45,100
Yeah.

636
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,100
But, I mean, who is worthy to open the seal?

637
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:50,820
Who's right?

638
00:33:50,990 --> 00:33:53,180
Who has the power and dominion?

639
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,960
There are many a man who would like to think that they are,

640
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,320
that have so much pride,

641
00:34:03,060 --> 00:34:05,640
but there's only one of them that this job can be given to.

642
00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:06,000
Right.

643
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,780
It's not even a man, is it?

644
00:34:07,940 --> 00:34:08,100
No.

645
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:08,600
No.

646
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,200
We're going to find out it's a lamb.

647
00:34:10,260 --> 00:34:10,700
That's right.

648
00:34:10,879 --> 00:34:11,399
That's right.

649
00:34:11,700 --> 00:34:11,760
Yeah.

650
00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,060
You're right, though.

651
00:34:14,139 --> 00:34:20,980
I think there are preachers out there that would just march right up to the throne of the Father and grab that scroll out of God.

652
00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:22,419
Yeah, I didn't do this.

653
00:34:22,620 --> 00:34:23,360
I can handle it.

654
00:34:23,700 --> 00:34:24,460
Yeah, got this.

655
00:34:24,879 --> 00:34:26,520
Because pride has immediately died.

656
00:34:27,220 --> 00:34:27,820
Oh, absolutely.

657
00:34:28,179 --> 00:34:30,980
Before they even get their hand out.

658
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:32,020
Yeah.

659
00:34:32,740 --> 00:34:40,460
Well, you know, I think it's amazing because in that verse, it says that no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth.

660
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,179
So, I mean, it's going all the way down.

661
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:43,840
It's talking about Satan.

662
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,240
He's talking about Lucifer and the angels that fell in.

663
00:34:47,140 --> 00:34:47,580
None.

664
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,020
Well, he speaks that because he wants us to know.

665
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,080
He doesn't want to leave any room for question.

666
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,120
That's the same reason, and we'll talk about this later,

667
00:34:59,260 --> 00:35:03,040
but that's the same reason Satan's released for a short time

668
00:35:03,250 --> 00:35:04,720
after that thousand-year millennial reign.

669
00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:06,860
God doesn't want there to be any question.

670
00:35:08,180 --> 00:35:10,980
There's more reasons than that in that, but we'll get to that.

671
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:22,500
but yeah so um verse four verse four um and i wept much because no man was found worthy to open

672
00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:31,140
and to read the book neither to look their own uh so john starts crying right uh yeah i mean

673
00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:36,960
weeping that's yeah that's serious crying there absolutely absolutely he's he's lamenting over

674
00:35:38,220 --> 00:35:42,380
and i don't know i mean i don't know what i don't know if john just wasn't thinking at the time

675
00:35:42,690 --> 00:35:48,960
you know if he was so overwhelmed at the time but you know he he was thinking is there is there no

676
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:57,240
answer to the sin of this world will evil prevail will it finally win satan now have his day will

677
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:04,339
the earth forever be destroyed will will man uh never turn to a holy god you know paul yeah paul

678
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:11,660
writes about it too um he said uh in romans chapter 8 verse 22 and 23 he said for we know

679
00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:18,660
that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now and not only they but

680
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:25,200
ourselves also which have the first fruits of the spirit even we ourselves grown within ourselves

681
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:34,320
waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body yeah i've always wondered why he wept so

682
00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:42,240
greatly and i i think i think i'm not going to be dogmatic about it but i think he sees this scroll

683
00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:48,180
as the completion of all things in god's plan and it can't be completed yeah yeah it's stuck

684
00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:52,780
right yeah there's nobody worthy to open this thing and he thinks it's hopeless at that point

685
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,800
like you said i mean it's did we get this far that jesus died and rose again and i've got this vision

686
00:36:59,940 --> 00:37:03,420
and is this vision all about telling me this is where it ends this is this is where we're done

687
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,640
I mean, you know, it stops here and we're not going to go any farther.

688
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,240
Yeah, I mean, it's...

689
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:14,280
And part of it had to be...

690
00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:18,460
John didn't know what the scroll was at that point in time.

691
00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:22,620
I mean, according to the scripture, he just saw the scroll and sees it there.

692
00:37:24,340 --> 00:37:28,320
And just looking at it, something about it just told him how important this was,

693
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,840
that someone is able to open it.

694
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,420
All of heaven's watching this thing.

695
00:37:32,580 --> 00:37:51,500
Yeah. And suddenly they're looking and they're out searching for somebody to open it. I mean, he's sitting there looking at that. He knows God could do it, but God's choosing to look for somebody for somebody. He just knows it's really important. And he's like, wait, nobody can open it. Nobody can look in it. We can't find out what this is. Like you say, he's just looking, was this the end of it?

696
00:37:51,600 --> 00:38:01,440
And I am not convinced that maybe there was still some part of John at this point that wasn't just 100% on board with who Christ was.

697
00:38:02,340 --> 00:38:08,100
I think part of him right here was still just holding back a little bit on him being fully God.

698
00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:11,680
I don't think John had quite hit that part yet.

699
00:38:11,750 --> 00:38:12,920
I think he was almost there.

700
00:38:13,220 --> 00:38:13,580
I don't know.

701
00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:14,680
He wrote his gospel.

702
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:16,060
He did write his gospel.

703
00:38:16,470 --> 00:38:16,920
He did.

704
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:23,360
But I kind of feel like with him looking at this, there was just some part of him going, wait, he went through all that and now nothing?

705
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,280
It didn't go, wait, wait, wait, wait, guys, where's my buddy?

706
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,220
Or maybe he thought it was a wrong.

707
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,480
I mean, did I do this in vain?

708
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:38,920
I think there was just that thread of human doubt there, which is about, and let's be clear, it's about to get dispelled.

709
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:39,520
No, yeah.

710
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,700
I mean, it's about to get blown out of the water for him.

711
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:51,240
I mean, but I think at least part of this may have been that John just had that little nagging, you know, from what he had been brought up with and the way he'd been taught all his life.

712
00:38:51,310 --> 00:38:53,340
And it was just back there just chirping away at him.

713
00:38:53,910 --> 00:38:56,160
And he was going, well, maybe, maybe.

714
00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:00,360
But you look at this and yeah.

715
00:39:00,620 --> 00:39:00,940
Oh, yeah.

716
00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:07,360
When you want this to happen, you want to you want to see the end of it, you know, and you want it to turn out good.

717
00:39:07,390 --> 00:39:09,540
You want it to be you want the story to end well.

718
00:39:09,820 --> 00:39:09,960
Yeah.

719
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:26,460
But, you know, all of our worldly solutions to peace, our idea that if we can just elect the right president or change our government and the world's problems will just be solved is completely ridiculous.

720
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:27,080
Yeah, it is.

721
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:32,400
There is one who can take control, and we know who that one is, right?

722
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:33,960
Let's look at verse 5.

723
00:39:34,380 --> 00:39:34,600
Amen.

724
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:35,900
Amen.

725
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:36,780
You'll read it?

726
00:39:36,980 --> 00:39:37,540
Yeah, go ahead.

727
00:39:37,940 --> 00:39:38,200
All right.

728
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:41,300
And one of the elders said to me, stop weeping.

729
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:49,000
Behold, the lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.

730
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:49,500
Amen.

731
00:39:50,130 --> 00:39:50,260
Amen.

732
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:51,800
Breathe easy, John.

733
00:39:52,060 --> 00:39:52,800
Breathe easy, John.

734
00:39:53,440 --> 00:40:04,040
You know something that's always what we talked about to elders before, and they probably represent the church or the saved, redeemed people because they got the white robes.

735
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:04,260
Right.

736
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,000
The righteous robes.

737
00:40:06,860 --> 00:40:10,420
I wonder if one of those elders was him in the future.

738
00:40:12,890 --> 00:40:14,180
I never really thought about that.

739
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,220
It's probably better not to think like that.

740
00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:17,700
It's not that bad.

741
00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:20,980
He should have been talking to himself.

742
00:40:21,310 --> 00:40:22,560
I mean, I think it's right.

743
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:23,760
Hey, bud.

744
00:40:24,740 --> 00:40:27,200
Hey, I know you.

745
00:40:27,250 --> 00:40:28,100
You look really familiar.

746
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:28,900
Yeah.

747
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,760
You're a good-looking gatherer.

748
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,980
You look good in white.

749
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:37,660
Sorry.

750
00:40:38,980 --> 00:40:39,580
It's okay.

751
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:42,020
That's a good point, though.

752
00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:50,580
But the lion that is from the tribe of Judah, this is our God and Savior.

753
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:51,000
Yeah.

754
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,620
This is the lion, the lamb, the roof, David.

755
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:54,080
Yeah.

756
00:40:55,180 --> 00:41:00,620
I mean, we went through this whole book, and we've built up to this.

757
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,920
I mean, we see the coming of Jesus.

758
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:08,180
We see the prophecies that he's going to come, the prophecies that he's going to die.

759
00:41:08,650 --> 00:41:09,940
And then we see that happen.

760
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:13,020
And then we see the miracles that he works.

761
00:41:13,570 --> 00:41:15,500
And he goes to Calvary's cross and he dies.

762
00:41:15,510 --> 00:41:19,280
And then we see the church being born and all these things happening.

763
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,780
But here in chapter 5, chapter 4, we get to see the church.

764
00:41:23,990 --> 00:41:24,840
We see it in heaven.

765
00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:30,400
In chapter 5, we get to see the unveiling of the Lamb of God right here.

766
00:41:30,580 --> 00:41:34,080
So the hero of the story steps into the scene.

767
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,180
Hey, guys, I'll open that.

768
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:36,840
I'll grab it.

769
00:41:36,940 --> 00:41:37,500
I got it.

770
00:41:37,860 --> 00:41:39,100
You ain't got to worry about this.

771
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:39,940
I got it, John.

772
00:41:40,460 --> 00:41:42,820
I mean, he's the knight in shiny armor.

773
00:41:43,020 --> 00:41:45,740
He's the general, the commander in chief.

774
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,920
He alone is worthy to open seals.

775
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,040
Because of what he did for us, right?

776
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:52,560
Amen, yes.

777
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,820
That he became one of us on the first Christmas morning to die.

778
00:41:56,020 --> 00:41:56,760
To die for us.

779
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:57,160
To die.

780
00:41:57,420 --> 00:42:01,800
His main purpose was to die on a cross and be raised again on the other day.

781
00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:02,340
Amen.

782
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:03,340
And he overcame.

783
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,760
And I started to say that I love the wording here.

784
00:42:07,260 --> 00:42:09,100
One of the elders said, you know, stop weeping.

785
00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:15,820
Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered or prevailed or triumphed.

786
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,040
It's not just that, hey, he's the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

787
00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:21,940
He's the root of David.

788
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:23,360
He's conquered.

789
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:24,440
He's won.

790
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:26,700
This is already done.

791
00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:28,060
Hey, John, it's okay.

792
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:28,500
Yeah.

793
00:42:28,620 --> 00:42:29,300
Calm down.

794
00:42:29,540 --> 00:42:30,160
He won.

795
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:31,640
Here's the thing.

796
00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:37,520
Those elders, the church that's represented here, they know what's about to happen.

797
00:42:37,820 --> 00:42:37,900
Yeah.

798
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:39,260
That's us.

799
00:42:39,780 --> 00:42:41,340
Because they've read it.

800
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:42,540
They've studied it.

801
00:42:42,620 --> 00:42:43,260
They've seen it.

802
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,400
And so they're watching this unfold, and they're like, hey, John,

803
00:42:47,460 --> 00:42:49,120
they don't know what's about to happen yet.

804
00:42:50,780 --> 00:42:52,540
It's old John in the past.

805
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:53,880
Yeah, you're doing something.

806
00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:55,420
It's like back to future in heaven.

807
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,960
Anyway, I said, who's going to fix the flux capacitor?

808
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:10,320
But anyway, but you see this thing unfolding, and man, the elders are like, hey, I know what's about to happen here.

809
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:15,820
Because he made the church to know we are his bride and his friend.

810
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,280
And so we know what's about to happen here.

811
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:25,760
John 15, 15, henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what the Lord doeth,

812
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,680
but I have called you friends for all things that I've heard of my father.

813
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,320
I have made known unto you.

814
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:30,800
Yeah.

815
00:43:31,340 --> 00:43:31,400
Yeah.

816
00:43:31,620 --> 00:43:31,780
Yeah.

817
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,000
I love his titles.

818
00:43:33,090 --> 00:43:34,440
I love the picture here, man.

819
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,020
It's like, it's just joy.

820
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:40,620
It's crazy, wild joy going in and all the joy gets sucked out of the room for a minute.

821
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:40,900
Yeah.

822
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,240
And it's all back again.

823
00:43:42,330 --> 00:43:42,920
It's an instant.

824
00:43:43,020 --> 00:43:43,100
Yeah.

825
00:43:43,150 --> 00:43:44,000
It's a roller coaster.

826
00:43:44,140 --> 00:43:45,780
It was like a build up.

827
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,000
I thought Jesus said, we're going to build this up really good.

828
00:43:49,190 --> 00:43:50,500
We're going to get John.

829
00:43:51,019 --> 00:43:52,780
He's not going to know what's going on for a minute.

830
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:53,580
And then.

831
00:43:53,620 --> 00:43:53,840
Yeah.

832
00:43:55,559 --> 00:44:01,760
here comes the yeah yeah tribe of judah you know this this is uh and he's he's the lamb he's the

833
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:07,240
lion you know the lamb submitted himself as a sacrifice and the lion's coming to conquer yeah

834
00:44:07,610 --> 00:44:14,100
amen right yes he's the king yes he is disputed king yes amen amen yeah this is awesome stuff

835
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:22,300
and so so he's got the title to earth he he's uh he he has not only redeemed us but he has

836
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:28,360
redeemed all creation right and he will redeem it all uh the line like you said the line of the

837
00:44:28,370 --> 00:44:35,260
tribe of judah uh when jacob was dying he he gathered in his sons and he gave them this prophecy

838
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:44,280
in in genesis 49 9 and 10 judah is a lion's wealth from the prey my son thou art gone up he stooped

839
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:52,240
down he crouched as a lion and as an old lion who shall rouse him up the the scepter shall not

840
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:59,200
from judah nor a lawgiver between his feet until shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of

841
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:07,760
the people be yeah yeah good stuff goes way back it does yeah yeah yeah uh the root of david we see

842
00:45:07,770 --> 00:45:13,880
in in second samuel chapter seven god makes a covenant with david there and uh which he'll bring

843
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,720
one who will rule over all the people of the earth yeah and the root of david before david that's

844
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:19,900
That's right.

845
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:20,200
Yeah.

846
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:20,500
Yeah.

847
00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:22,000
So he was Jesus.

848
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:23,080
Yeah.

849
00:45:23,779 --> 00:45:24,440
Good stuff.

850
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:25,180
Yeah, it is.

851
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:26,160
Yeah, it is.

852
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:28,740
Let me get verse six ready.

853
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,700
So we got to get down to the opening of it.

854
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:31,560
Yeah.

855
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:41,560
So, and I beheld in low in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as it had been slain.

856
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,840
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God,

857
00:45:47,380 --> 00:45:50,360
sent forth into all the earth.

858
00:45:51,060 --> 00:45:51,240
Wow.

859
00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:52,040
Yeah.

860
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:52,880
The lamb.

861
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:53,240
Lamb.

862
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:55,440
This is John the Baptist, man.

863
00:45:55,580 --> 00:45:55,720
Yeah.

864
00:45:56,740 --> 00:45:58,740
And John 1, 29.

865
00:45:59,070 --> 00:46:01,360
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said,

866
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,420
Behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

867
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:04,800
Yeah.

868
00:46:05,140 --> 00:46:05,200
Yeah.

869
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:08,320
This is the eternal one-time sacrifice for sin.

870
00:46:08,540 --> 00:46:08,980
That's right.

871
00:46:09,130 --> 00:46:09,240
Yeah.

872
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,780
And then the lamb that's brought to the slaughter in Isaiah 53, right?

873
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:16,060
I mean, a lamb here.

874
00:46:16,580 --> 00:46:17,840
Well, one, it says he saw.

875
00:46:17,940 --> 00:46:19,600
That means, John, he beheld this.

876
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:25,700
And then that word a lamb or those two words, a lamb, literally means little lamb.

877
00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:26,480
Little lamb.

878
00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:27,060
Little lamb.

879
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,040
Mary had a little lamb, right?

880
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:32,700
A lot of snow.

881
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:33,280
Yeah.

882
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,760
What about as if it had been slain?

883
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:36,360
Yeah.

884
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,500
That indicates our Savior faced great violence in his death, doesn't it?

885
00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:41,740
Yeah.

886
00:46:41,790 --> 00:46:44,240
I mean, so that we might be redeemed.

887
00:46:44,410 --> 00:46:45,720
He paid a price for us.

888
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:46,840
And it's interesting, too.

889
00:46:47,110 --> 00:46:48,440
You picture a lamb with blood.

890
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:48,960
Yeah.

891
00:46:49,340 --> 00:46:53,400
You know, that perfectly white, what was it called?

892
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:53,920
Fur?

893
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,000
Fleece, I guess.

894
00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:55,420
Yeah.

895
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:55,820
Yeah.

896
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:57,320
Covered in blood.

897
00:46:57,630 --> 00:47:00,860
We see that in Revelation 19 when he comes back in a robe dipped in blood.

898
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:01,240
Yeah.

899
00:47:01,540 --> 00:47:02,060
Yeah, that's right.

900
00:47:02,260 --> 00:47:02,460
Yeah.

901
00:47:05,420 --> 00:47:07,000
He's standing.

902
00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:10,920
This speaks of his resurrection, that he's standing up.

903
00:47:11,020 --> 00:47:12,120
He's not in a grave anywhere.

904
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:17,760
It also denotes the fact that he's not just sitting at the right hand of the Father anymore.

905
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:22,360
He's gotten up from his throne, and he's about to move into action, right?

906
00:47:22,540 --> 00:47:28,500
I mean, he's about to come to earth for the second time, but not as a lamb who was slain,

907
00:47:28,620 --> 00:47:30,880
but as the King of kings and as the Lord of lords.

908
00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:31,220
Amen.

909
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,800
He's on his way, and that's the picture that we're building up to.

910
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:35,180
Amen.

911
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:48,680
And by the way, the way one of the quick ways you can tell that when John's seeing something that there's he's seeing a representation of what's happening rather than the literal what's happening.

912
00:47:48,860 --> 00:47:50,780
He saw a lamb standing.

913
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,340
That was Jesus standing there.

914
00:47:52,620 --> 00:47:52,740
Right.

915
00:47:53,060 --> 00:47:58,080
And but John's eyes was interpreting it as a lamb that had been slain, was covered in blood.

916
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:58,560
Yeah.

917
00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:01,520
And this little lamb just walks up and is standing in the middle of him.

918
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,480
And there again, I go back to that.

919
00:48:04,540 --> 00:48:06,040
There was part of him going, what?

920
00:48:07,180 --> 00:48:07,680
What do I see?

921
00:48:08,020 --> 00:48:08,420
It's a lamb.

922
00:48:08,490 --> 00:48:13,160
It's been slain, but it's standing there and it's got seven horns and seven eyes.

923
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,020
And I know these are the spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

924
00:48:16,020 --> 00:48:16,660
I can feel it.

925
00:48:16,660 --> 00:48:19,120
I can see it, but I'm not quite sure what I'm looking.

926
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,500
I mean, John is seeing something that is Christ going.

927
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,220
This is what's happening.

928
00:48:24,250 --> 00:48:25,400
I want it to be clear to you.

929
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:31,060
Yeah, I think he I think he immediately goes back to what I just read about John the Baptist saying he's a John the Baptist called him a lamb.

930
00:48:31,380 --> 00:48:34,300
Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sure all of that's going on in the back of his head.

931
00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:36,220
Scripture's hitting his head. Yeah.

932
00:48:36,980 --> 00:48:44,080
Yeah. And he both gives an analogy of it and reveals the truth of who it is, too.

933
00:48:44,180 --> 00:48:44,640
Oh, absolutely.

934
00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:48,440
And that's, you know, going back, that's what we talked about in here before.

935
00:48:49,880 --> 00:49:00,820
Look, if it's an analogy or if it's, you know, if it's a picture of something, then there will be other verses that will, like you said,

936
00:49:01,380 --> 00:49:06,520
like John the Baptist saying, you know, behold, the Lamb of God takes away the sin of the world.

937
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,920
And so we go back and we say, OK, that Lamb is Jesus.

938
00:49:10,180 --> 00:49:11,180
He's talking about Jesus.

939
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,140
We know that because we can go back and look here.

940
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,180
So it's not an actual Lamb, but it is Jesus.

941
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:22,580
But, you know, I've always I will say I have always wondered if when John was standing there on that riverside and he saw his cousin,

942
00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:25,880
remember who he was to Jesus, this wasn't just some stranger.

943
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:28,120
He knew him and he sees him walking down there.

944
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,400
And I kind of can't help but wonder if he didn't just see, what's that?

945
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,080
That's our lamb right there where he's standing walking along with it.

946
00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:36,880
I know what's going on here.

947
00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:38,020
Behold the lamb of God.

948
00:49:38,140 --> 00:49:42,280
I mean, I can't help but wonder if John wasn't seeing glimpses of this right before.

949
00:49:42,740 --> 00:49:44,100
And the Spirit told him to call him that.

950
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:44,880
Oh, absolutely.

951
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:45,760
Absolutely.

952
00:49:46,940 --> 00:49:47,040
Yeah.

953
00:49:48,359 --> 00:49:52,000
But if it's not an analogy, there'll be no other verse to back it up.

954
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,360
And we're going to see a lot of that through here.

955
00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:56,900
We're going to see a lot of things that we can't go back and say, oh, that's this.

956
00:49:57,020 --> 00:50:02,980
no no that's i mean you're gonna see these creatures you know flying out and uh with

957
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:08,960
yeah long teeth and and it ain't no pack apart no no no i don't think there's gonna be some

958
00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:14,600
supernatural stuff yeah i think so i think so too yeah i think we i think we don't need to

959
00:50:14,900 --> 00:50:20,820
we don't need to dumb it down by saying oh yeah it'd be this if nope again it would be it would

960
00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:26,920
be referenced back to somewhere else yeah yeah um so it's got seven horns right and and yeah

961
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:33,500
And so what you think about this, I see the seven horns as being a perfect kingship.

962
00:50:34,130 --> 00:50:36,660
The horn is usually representing a kingdom or a king.

963
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:36,980
Yeah.

964
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,700
And that seven is a number of completeness.

965
00:50:39,940 --> 00:50:40,000
Yeah.

966
00:50:40,140 --> 00:50:40,200
Yeah.

967
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:42,820
I've got written down here omnipotent, you know.

968
00:50:43,020 --> 00:50:43,440
Yeah.

969
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,080
But yeah, I 100% agree with that.

970
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:46,340
Yeah.

971
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:52,640
Daniel 7, 8, you know, talks about his omnipotence and the power there.

972
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:54,180
Yeah.

973
00:50:54,380 --> 00:50:56,740
In the midst of the throne, he's there before the throne,

974
00:50:57,010 --> 00:50:59,220
and he's ready to judge, isn't he?

975
00:50:59,420 --> 00:50:59,720
Amen.

976
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:00,240
Yeah.

977
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:00,820
Amen.

978
00:51:02,380 --> 00:51:03,600
What about the seven eyes?

979
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:05,380
It explains that.

980
00:51:05,380 --> 00:51:08,700
It says, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

981
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:12,160
So that means he's got complete knowledge, too, doesn't he?

982
00:51:12,180 --> 00:51:12,300
Absolutely.

983
00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:14,140
Perfect judgment.

984
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:20,260
So if seven horns is omnipotent or if it's all-powerful or a king is,

985
00:51:21,460 --> 00:51:26,240
then this would mean the seven eyes would represent his omniscience, right?

986
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:26,580
Right.

987
00:51:26,820 --> 00:51:28,080
I mean, he's all-knowing.

988
00:51:28,340 --> 00:51:28,560
Yeah.

989
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,760
He moves in the fullness of the Spirit,

990
00:51:32,590 --> 00:51:35,460
who is the Spirit of wisdom and understanding.

991
00:51:35,980 --> 00:51:37,680
That's what that is there.

992
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:38,120
Yeah.

993
00:51:40,260 --> 00:51:41,600
He's both lion and lamb.

994
00:51:42,140 --> 00:51:42,460
Yeah.

995
00:51:43,700 --> 00:51:44,060
Right?

996
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:45,720
As a lion, he's king.

997
00:51:45,850 --> 00:51:46,880
As a lamb, he's savior.

998
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,400
And he's prophet, priest, king.

999
00:51:48,660 --> 00:51:48,900
Yeah.

1000
00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:50,400
He's everything.

1001
00:51:50,620 --> 00:51:59,220
got it all rolled up into one yeah yeah good stuff yeah yeah it is all right verse seven yes sir and

1002
00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:04,220
he came and took the book out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne so who's the guy

1003
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:10,680
sitting on the throne a father by the father yeah he's he's the one who put the seals on there

1004
00:52:10,860 --> 00:52:17,420
yeah yeah that that's uh i mean that would be what the king would do right it's his signature uh you

1005
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,100
You know, his insignia, I guess I should say.

1006
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:20,840
Yeah, what did he do?

1007
00:52:20,940 --> 00:52:22,340
Drop a wax and had a ring?

1008
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:23,200
Yeah, I had a ring.

1009
00:52:23,340 --> 00:52:25,300
Yeah, an insignia of the...

1010
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:25,920
Yeah.

1011
00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:26,960
I'll get that right.

1012
00:52:27,140 --> 00:52:28,440
I mean, insignia, yeah.

1013
00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:36,220
So he takes the book from his father, and he's now going to, like we talked about a minute ago, he's going to move in judgment.

1014
00:52:36,599 --> 00:52:41,760
He's no longer the intercessor of the church, but because we're there with him, right?

1015
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:44,120
He doesn't have to intercede between us anymore.

1016
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:44,800
We're there.

1017
00:52:45,619 --> 00:52:46,260
We're present.

1018
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,120
So he's now becoming judge to those who need to be judged.

1019
00:52:51,220 --> 00:52:51,380
Amen.

1020
00:52:51,980 --> 00:52:53,220
Do you think there's any importance?

1021
00:52:53,780 --> 00:52:56,320
Why did he say the right hand of him who sat on the throne?

1022
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,120
He wouldn't just say that for no reason, right?

1023
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:00,700
No.

1024
00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:04,860
No, I think there's some—

1025
00:53:04,980 --> 00:53:05,920
That's a power hand.

1026
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:06,780
Yeah, it is.

1027
00:53:06,820 --> 00:53:07,100
It is.

1028
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,060
It's a power hand, and I think that it also goes back to—

1029
00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:13,600
I've read this before, but I can't remember the story in it,

1030
00:53:13,660 --> 00:53:21,180
But royalty, if there was a successor to the throne, I think they would sit on the right hand of the throne.

1031
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,000
I think that had something to do.

1032
00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:36,020
When I started saying that also is that it's that furthering of fully revealing to John what's going on because he's going to the right hand of the throne and taking this.

1033
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:41,780
The one that was on the right hand isn't there because he's down here taking the scroll.

1034
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:47,540
You know, again, it's more that John coming that true, full understanding of what he's dealing with here.

1035
00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:47,880
Yeah.

1036
00:53:48,220 --> 00:53:48,280
Yeah.

1037
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:49,260
Yeah.

1038
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:50,140
Amen.

1039
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:52,880
Verse eight.

1040
00:53:54,240 --> 00:54:07,820
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, having every one of them harps and golden and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints.

1041
00:54:10,140 --> 00:54:15,300
So now we're witnessing in heaven as Jesus takes over.

1042
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,720
The Father has given all to the Son.

1043
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:24,120
Everyone in heaven falls down and they begin to worship here.

1044
00:54:24,940 --> 00:54:27,420
All of them are holding hearts, which denote praise.

1045
00:54:28,860 --> 00:54:33,440
Golden vials, which are bowls of incense, representing the prayers of the saints.

1046
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:40,700
the church in heaven as representing or acting as priests before the high priest.

1047
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:41,700
Amen.

1048
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:42,740
Good stuff.

1049
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:43,760
Yeah, it is.

1050
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:44,760
It is.

1051
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:51,480
And something interesting here, too, is all of heaven's worshiping him as God.

1052
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:51,960
Yeah.

1053
00:54:52,340 --> 00:54:52,480
Yes.

1054
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:52,980
Yeah.

1055
00:54:53,380 --> 00:54:54,960
They're not going to worship him, but it's not God.

1056
00:54:55,020 --> 00:54:55,220
No.

1057
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:55,760
No.

1058
00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:56,360
Amen.

1059
00:54:56,500 --> 00:54:57,280
And he's there.

1060
00:54:57,540 --> 00:54:57,940
He's man.

1061
00:55:01,020 --> 00:55:03,700
To once and for all prove that he is worthy of all praise.

1062
00:55:03,940 --> 00:55:06,220
And he was God in human flesh.

1063
00:55:06,410 --> 00:55:09,640
Yeah, that's why he said if you accept the Son, you've accepted the Father.

1064
00:55:09,820 --> 00:55:12,880
If you reject the Son, you've rejected the Father.

1065
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:13,460
They're one.

1066
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:13,980
That's right.

1067
00:55:14,140 --> 00:55:14,260
One.

1068
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:14,620
Amen.

1069
00:55:14,790 --> 00:55:15,400
One in the same.

1070
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:15,840
They're one.

1071
00:55:16,060 --> 00:55:17,620
And here's that harp, man.

1072
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:19,800
I'm a big fan of that harp.

1073
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:20,200
Yeah.

1074
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,220
I'm a harp, a mansion, and a crown.

1075
00:55:23,180 --> 00:55:23,800
Yeah, we got that.

1076
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:27,500
Yeah.

1077
00:55:28,260 --> 00:55:33,040
Harp, I think, is just kind of – it's just a worship instrument.

1078
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:33,440
Yeah.

1079
00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:34,660
Yeah, I think so, too.

1080
00:55:34,830 --> 00:55:35,380
Yeah, yeah.

1081
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:35,920
Specifically.

1082
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:37,640
Right, yeah.

1083
00:55:37,870 --> 00:55:40,600
Could be a six-string, right?

1084
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:40,980
Yeah.

1085
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:42,560
Yeah.

1086
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:42,940
Whatever.

1087
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:44,920
Carrying that thing.

1088
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,540
I'll be – I'll finally be able to play something.

1089
00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:54,700
I bet Nicole will still go, Brent, I wish you'd stop.

1090
00:55:57,820 --> 00:56:00,220
I mean, Jesus has even walked away from you, Brian.

1091
00:56:00,220 --> 00:56:00,960
You're still playing.

1092
00:56:04,860 --> 00:56:05,680
Oh, that sounds great.

1093
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,100
I got something to do over here.

1094
00:56:08,260 --> 00:56:09,100
Thanks, Brian.

1095
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:10,180
Yeah, go ahead.

1096
00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:10,640
Go ahead.

1097
00:56:11,540 --> 00:56:12,700
He's looking at everybody going,

1098
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:18,480
You know what's cool, though?

1099
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,000
You think of incense as the prayers of the saints.

1100
00:56:22,860 --> 00:56:23,360
Isn't that crazy?

1101
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,700
It's like a smoke that rises up.

1102
00:56:25,740 --> 00:56:26,260
It is, yeah.

1103
00:56:26,340 --> 00:56:26,980
It pleases him.

1104
00:56:27,140 --> 00:56:27,480
It is.

1105
00:56:27,580 --> 00:56:28,340
It smells good.

1106
00:56:29,180 --> 00:56:29,280
Yeah.

1107
00:56:29,580 --> 00:56:29,700
Yeah.

1108
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:30,160
Yeah.

1109
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,160
And I remember one time I was in, I guess, in high school,

1110
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:38,940
and my great aunt died, and she was Catholic.

1111
00:56:39,340 --> 00:56:39,500
Yeah.

1112
00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:41,220
And we went to a Catholic church.

1113
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,220
Of course, they take the mass and all this stuff.

1114
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,660
You're excluded from it, you know, all this stuff.

1115
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:49,500
And this dude's walking around with this box with smoke coming out of it.

1116
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:49,740
Yeah.

1117
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:50,020
Right?

1118
00:56:50,260 --> 00:56:50,360
Yeah.

1119
00:56:52,460 --> 00:56:53,280
It's incense, man.

1120
00:56:53,380 --> 00:56:54,820
It represents the prayer of the saints.

1121
00:56:55,060 --> 00:56:55,500
It does.

1122
00:56:55,740 --> 00:56:55,820
Yeah.

1123
00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:57,940
There's a reason why they do that.

1124
00:56:58,120 --> 00:56:59,420
That's what it is to represent.

1125
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:00,560
That's what it was supposed to.

1126
00:57:00,690 --> 00:57:00,800
Yeah.

1127
00:57:01,410 --> 00:57:03,880
But, you know, it also represented victory in battle, too,

1128
00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:05,900
when those smoke rise up, you know.

1129
00:57:07,700 --> 00:57:11,140
It was victory to those who had won,

1130
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:18,220
and it was a stench of death to those who had lost.

1131
00:57:18,740 --> 00:57:18,960
Yeah.

1132
00:57:21,380 --> 00:57:22,420
Well, do we want to stop there?

1133
00:57:23,180 --> 00:57:24,540
It's almost time.

1134
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:25,320
It is.

1135
00:57:26,380 --> 00:57:27,140
That's a bummer.

1136
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:32,800
Getting into all the good stuff.

1137
00:57:32,980 --> 00:57:33,340
I don't know.

1138
00:57:33,900 --> 00:57:34,020
Yeah.

1139
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,020
I guess we should wait, surely.

1140
00:57:36,300 --> 00:57:37,160
Yeah, we can hang on.

1141
00:57:37,260 --> 00:57:37,880
We can hang on.

1142
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:39,940
I'll try to remember where we left off next week.

1143
00:57:41,059 --> 00:57:42,220
Revelation 5-9.

1144
00:57:42,740 --> 00:57:44,060
You said it on air.

1145
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,560
And I said it on here, and I'm going to say it again at the end,

1146
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:52,000
that we will pick back up with Revelation 5-9 in three weeks.

1147
00:57:52,780 --> 00:57:54,180
We made it to a nine again.

1148
00:57:54,460 --> 00:57:54,660
Yeah.

1149
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:55,580
That's kind of cool.

1150
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:55,760
Yeah.

1151
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:56,220
Yeah.

1152
00:57:56,580 --> 00:57:57,700
But, uh, yeah.

1153
00:57:57,940 --> 00:58:04,340
So next week we will be doing our, uh, our Christmas, uh, Christmas episode where we get

1154
00:58:04,340 --> 00:58:09,500
the choir in, we're going to sing and we'll film it and it'll be broadcast and, and we

1155
00:58:10,220 --> 00:58:12,240
wish everybody a Merry Christmas right before Christmas.

1156
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:12,900
Yeah.

1157
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,940
And then, uh, the, it'll be the first week of January.

1158
00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:17,680
Yeah.

1159
00:58:17,860 --> 00:58:23,119
It'll be when we pick back up, uh, give us, give us time to kind of round out the new year

1160
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:24,600
or the end of this year.

1161
00:58:25,940 --> 00:58:26,400
Let's see.

1162
00:58:27,220 --> 00:58:29,480
Yeah, next week, the 22nd,

1163
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:33,080
and then we'll just wait until the 5th of January.

1164
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,120
So we'll skip a week there just to let everybody

1165
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,180
go into the new year, get ready,

1166
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,560
and then we'll come back refreshed and ready to go.

1167
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:39,960
Yeah.

1168
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:40,960
Amen.

1169
00:58:41,820 --> 00:58:42,060
Amen.

1170
00:58:42,900 --> 00:58:43,800
With verse 9.

1171
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:44,460
Yes.

1172
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,840
Revelation chapter 5, verse 9, three weeks from now.

1173
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:49,080
Yeah.

1174
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:50,360
Oh.

1175
00:58:51,780 --> 00:58:52,080
All right.

1176
00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:55,460
Well, Brother Dennis, why don't you pray us out for now?

1177
00:58:55,620 --> 00:58:55,960
All right.

1178
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:57,760
Father in heaven, thank you.

1179
00:58:57,980 --> 00:59:00,000
Thank you for this time with my brothers here.

1180
00:59:00,100 --> 00:59:04,500
Father, I pray for everyone listening that they would dig into your word.

1181
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,780
Father, give them a hunger and a thirst for your word.

1182
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:08,600
And the same for us.

1183
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:15,280
Father, give it to all of us, this hunger to know you more, to understand you better,

1184
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,420
and to live in ways that honor and glorify you.

1185
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:25,720
Father, thank you for who you are, that you are the one worthy of all worship, that you are the lion, you are the lamb.

1186
00:59:26,300 --> 00:59:28,600
You are everything our hearts need and desire.

1187
00:59:29,060 --> 00:59:36,660
Father, I pray for these brothers of mine and everyone listening that you'll protect us through this holiday season and bring us back here safe and sound.

1188
00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:38,240
In Jesus' name, amen.

1189
00:59:38,500 --> 00:59:38,740
Amen.

1190
00:59:39,540 --> 00:59:39,740
Amen.