1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 He was a great day to hero for me. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Well, one day when I was lost, 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 He died on that cross, 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And I know it was a blood for me. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Well, I know it was a blood, 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 I know it was a blood, 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 I know it was a blood for me. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 One day when I was lost, 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Jesus died on that cross, 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,000 And I know it was a blood for me. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Man, if you know it was the blood of Jesus that set you free, 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 give Him the best praise you brought in His house. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Hallelujah. 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Hallelujah, if you have your Bibles, be turning with me back to the book of Jude. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 The book of Jude, remember, that's Revelation, 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000 and hang a short lift and you'll be right there. 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 The book of Jude. 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Next Sunday, we're going to be receiving a very special offering. 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 We've got some needs that have arisen. 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 I need to pray for Brother Travis's brother, Tracy, 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 and their families, they lost their house this past week. 22 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Total loss, I mean, to the ground. 23 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And so we want to bless them and we want to reach out, 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:31,000 try to minister to them and help them somehow, someway. Amen? 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,000 And then there's another petition that I've been made aware of. 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Brother Tony Hernandez called me the other day. 27 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,000 His sergeant major, I think it's one of their children, 28 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 has developed a very rare condition, 29 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 and we're looking at probably amputating some limbs. 30 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:06,000 And so we're going to assist him and see how we can help them. Amen? 31 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Government insurance is only so good. 32 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 So just like any insurance, it's going to fall way short. 33 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 So we've got a couple needs that have been brought to our attention, 34 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 and we're going to reach out. Amen? 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And we want to try to bless the best we can. Amen? 36 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And don't forget, we've got some mission stuff coming up before long. 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,000 We've got three brethren that we're about to see in halfway around the world. 38 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,000 To Africa, Togo, Africa, is that right? No? Zambia. There you go. 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I'll get them somewhere. Maybe they won't end up in Togo. 40 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,000 As they go, but we're going to send them, we're going to bless them. 41 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 We're going to have a – of course, you always raise more money 42 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 when you have food behind it. 43 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 So we're going to have a mission Sunday coming up before too long. 44 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 We're going to have a meal together. We love to eat together. 45 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 I mean, ain't nothing wrong with that, are they? 46 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Fellowship in the body of Christ. 47 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I've had young pastors who are struggling to get their churches growing, 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 and they say, well, how do you do it? 49 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Everywhere you've pastored, your church is growing. 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I said, well, number one, you can sit down. 51 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,000 I'm just going to read one verse anyway, and we'll get to it pretty quick. 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 I said, every church you've pastored has grown. 53 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 How did you do that? I said, well, number one, God was in charge. 54 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 I said, number two, I love to eat, and so I found out everybody else. 55 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And the more you fellowship the body of Christ – 56 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 you know what I asked them? I said, well, how many fellowships have you had? 57 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,000 They said, well, we don't do that. I thought, well, that's your fault. 58 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,000 I mean, happy people are full people. 59 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Unless we're miserable, you know. 60 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 And I'm about to get to the point of misery. 61 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:05,000 So I'm a firm believer in the fellowshiping of the body of Christ. Amen. 62 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 And when people see you happy, they say, hey, they happy over there. 63 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Let's go see what's going on. 64 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Amen. 65 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,000 The book of Jude – I want to read verse three again. 66 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:28,000 As we started last week, our little summer series here on contend for the faith. 67 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Jude the apostle writes, beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you 68 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:39,000 of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you 69 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:46,000 and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith 70 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 which was once delivered unto the saints. 71 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Father, I love you. I thank you today for your goodness and your mercy. 72 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Lord, thank you for your word, and I thank you for the faith that we have. 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 And I ask the Lord, will you help us this morning to be expedient? 74 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 And Lord, that we just preach what be pleasing to you and edifying to the body. 75 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:13,000 And we leave that we leave better than we came, full of faith, encouraged in the walk. 76 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 To you be praised forever in Christ's name, the church said. Amen. 77 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,000 So last week, the first installment, if you will, was just simply contend for the faith. 78 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:30,000 And we looked at the faith, exactly what the faith is and what he was encouraging the saints to continue in. 79 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:37,000 This is, again, the saints in Jerusalem to continue in the faith that was once delivered. 80 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 There's not two faiths. There's not three different faiths. 81 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,000 There was one faith delivered, and he was asking them to continue in that faith. 82 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 He points out a few situations and issues that were going on in the church at the time. 83 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:59,000 We're not going to just kind of dig into those issues because the church today has its own issues. Amen. 84 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,000 But to contend for the faith that we have and this morning, the emphasis today, 85 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:11,000 I want to kind of just focus a little bit on is the object of the faith, the object of the faith. 86 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 What is the object of the faith that we have? 87 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And I think you may some of you here might remember one of the last statements I made last Sunday morning is 88 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,000 the faith is based on the person and the supremacy of Jesus Christ. 89 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Remember, we talked about there's demonic faith out there. 90 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Devils believe. Amen. They know, but they don't serve. 91 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 There's vain faith. Amen. There's saving faith. 92 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 And there's just different measures of faith that's been given. 93 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 There's a dead faith, James says. Your faith is dead. 94 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:51,000 And if you want to see faith, I'll demonstrate my faith to you, the faith that I have in Jesus Christ, 95 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 by that being the example of the life that I live. 96 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:00,000 You may remember that we mentioned 2 Corinthians and the 13th chapter, 97 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 what Paul would write there in the fifth verse. 98 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,000 He instructed us to examine ourselves to see whether we even be in the faith. 99 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:15,000 You know, we have to have some self examinations as to see that we're remaining in the faith, trusting. 100 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. 101 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 So we need to examine our lives to make sure that we're still in love with Jesus. 102 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:30,000 And we do so by seeing if we're following and loving and keeping all of his commandments. 103 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 By this shall all men know, right, that your mind, that you belong to me, 104 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 that I'm with you and in you, that you have love, what? One toward another. 105 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,000 If your love towards your fellow man has kindly waned a little, 106 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,000 you might order to rediscover your first love, hello, which is Christ Jesus our Lord, 107 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 who is the object of our faith. 108 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,000 And we can go back through scripture and see that the object of our faith had been pointed out from earliest time 109 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 all the way to Genesis 3 in verse 15. 110 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:06,000 We hear these words, I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed, 111 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,000 and he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. 112 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:18,000 And we see the first mention of the faith that is going to be revealed to humanity, 113 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 which is the son of the living God. 114 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:27,000 This is the enemy that has come in and destroyed, deceived, and sin has now come into the garden. 115 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Adam and Eve have fallen and we see the pronunciation of what's going to take place on humanity, 116 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 how man's going to have to live, how man's going to have to eat, 117 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 and the punishment for that disobedience of God's Word, amen, that we should die. 118 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 And then, you know, the devil says, well, you're not dead yet, 119 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,000 oh, we came into this world spiritually dead and absent of the grace and the presence of God. 120 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 And we have to rediscover that, amen. 121 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:58,000 We have to find that and we have to accept that which is the faith in Jesus Christ. 122 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Isaiah would tell us a little bit about the object of our faith in 7 and 14. 123 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. 124 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel, meaning God with us. 125 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 So we see through early in Scripture, we have these prophetic utterances about the faith 126 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,000 that's going to be revealed to us through the Son of God, which is Jesus Christ. 127 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 He would put it this way in chapter 9, verse 6 and 7. 128 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Under us a child is born, under us a son is given. 129 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Somebody said, well, it's not Christmas. 130 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Well, they've been celebrating Christmas all summer at youth camp. 131 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 It's Christmas in July, amen. 132 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 It's Christmas every Sunday for a child of God, amen. 133 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,000 It's Christmas every day for the child of God. 134 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Why? For under us a child is born, under us a son is given. 135 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:54,000 And God, listen to this, the government shall be upon his shoulders 136 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:01,000 and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. 137 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Amen. Oh, further along Isaiah said in 11 and 10, 138 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:12,000 and in that day there shall be a root of Jesse who shall stand as a banner to the people, 139 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:19,000 for the Gentiles shall seek him and his resting place shall be glorious. 140 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Aren't you glad this morning that the object of our faith is the glorious Son of God? 141 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,000 I am so glad that Paul instructed the believers of his day. 142 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:35,000 I have not seen, ear hasn't heard, neither has it entered in to the heart of man 143 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 what God has in store for those who love him. 144 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Hallelujah. When I begin to think of the object of my faith 145 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,000 and the reality that Christ is the object and the person, amen, 146 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 and the supremacy of his goodness, the supremacy of his will, 147 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 and the majesty of his might and power, 148 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I think we need to refocus again on the object of the faith. 149 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Oh, because see, church becomes about so many things. 150 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 It comes about program. It becomes about activity. 151 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 It becomes about performance. Hello? 152 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Oh, we've turned our churches into performance driven now. 153 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 I read a little article that kind of struck me a little bit. 154 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I thought, well, I kind of agree with that. 155 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 It was about hopefully church hasn't become like social media, 156 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 and we're not looking for the like button to be pushed. 157 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Amen. I don't want church to be something like a post that I read somewhere on social media. 158 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Oh, I like the sermon today. I like the music today. 159 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I like the temperature in the house today, or I like this or such and such. 160 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:44,000 We have turned, if we're not careful, and we will continue to turn the church 161 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,000 into an entertainment place, but I'm not here for entertainment value this morning. 162 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:55,000 I'm here to refocus our mind and that we earnestly contend that we be in war 163 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,000 and that we wrestle for and we contend for and try to take advantage of 164 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 and put an effort against the effort that is coming against us 165 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 and that we be the church of the living God today. 166 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,000 And we need to be reminded of why we're here to begin with. 167 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Honey, it's not about you. It's not about me. 168 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 It's not about the temperature. It's not about the music. 169 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,000 It's not about the style, but it's about Jesus Christ and the he be glorified. 170 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,000 The object of our faith is the supremacy of Christ and Christ alone. 171 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 The Son was given. Emmanuel is among us. 172 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,000 And it's time the church returned and focus again to the simple fact 173 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:52,000 that your faith is solely based on the centrality of who Jesus Christ really is. 174 00:12:52,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Several years ago there was a worship course that came out 175 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,000 and the music fades and all is passed away. 176 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Now simply come. Simply bring a heart of worship. 177 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,000 I'm coming back to the heart of worship. 178 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,000 I think we need to get back to the heart of worship 179 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,000 and the heart of worship is the object of our faith. 180 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 It is the only begotten of the Father, which is Jesus Christ the righteous. 181 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,000 And our object, our faith, needs to return to that supremacy and that alone. 182 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,000 We've got so in such a culture of feel-good society. 183 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 If it doesn't feel good, then it can't be right. 184 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Well, honey, the thing about the gospel is it doesn't always make me feel good. 185 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Because when I stand behold and look in the mirror 186 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 and I can now only behold things kindly darkly 187 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,000 and I can't see fully clearly, but I do see the image of myself. 188 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 But the reflection that I'm looking for is the reflection of Christ 189 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 to emulate in this lost and dying world. 190 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,000 So if he is not the object of my faith and my feel-good is, 191 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:16,000 then we have averted and subverted the faith. 192 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 The object of our faith is Jesus Christ. 193 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 I've given you some Old Testament examples. 194 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 From the very beginning, from Genesis on, 195 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,000 we could have discovered him in a whole lot of other places. Amen. 196 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:38,000 We could have walked with Solomon through the garden and seen the rose of Sharon. 197 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,000 We could have walked with him in the low places and saw him as the lily of the valley. 198 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Hallelujah. We can see him all through. 199 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 We could stand with David and hear him declare, 200 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. Amen. 201 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,000 We can see him all throughout scripture and take that journey. 202 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 But there is a picture in Revelation 5 that I think we need to focus 203 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:06,000 and really get a good clear understanding of the object of our faith. 204 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Look what John the Revelator begins to pen in verse 1 of chapter 5. 205 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,000 John says, And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne 206 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:20,000 a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals. 207 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:26,000 And I saw a strong angel. I have let my mind ponder this for two days. 208 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 John said, I saw a strong angel. 209 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 And he goes further proclaiming with a loud voice, 210 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof. 211 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:44,000 And no man in heaven nor in earth nor under the earth was able to open the book, 212 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 neither to look therein, let alone open. 213 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:55,000 It wasn't even worthy to look, deserving to look, weighty enough to look. 214 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 And one of the, and I wept much, he said, 215 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, 216 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 neither to look thereon. 217 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not, behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah. 218 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:16,000 The root of David hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. 219 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,000 There's no greater image than what John in this book of Revelation 220 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:26,000 will give us to see and behold and to take in the object of our faith. 221 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 When we begin to think about this simple book, 222 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Satan has done his best to cover and to cloud 223 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000 and to put a shroud around the understanding of the book of Revelation. 224 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,000 For he knows that it's in this book that his destiny is described. 225 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Why? Because somewhere in heaven there's an angel polishing a chain. 226 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Hallelujah. 227 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:52,000 And the last thing he wants the church to be reminded of is there's an angel with one job 228 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 and that's to polish a chain that'll bind him for a thousand years. 229 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Hallelujah. He knows his end. He knows his destiny. 230 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 The key to understanding this book is found in chapter one, verse 19, 231 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 where John is instructed to write these words. 232 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Those things with thou hast seen, the things which are and the things which shall be hereafter. 233 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,000 When you think about it, break it down this way. 234 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Chapter one describes the glory of God or the things that John had seen. 235 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I think it's key that we note verse 10 and chapter one as well. 236 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000 When John would declare, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, 237 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 my God, there's something about coming prayed up. Amen. 238 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 I said there's something about coming to church ready in the spirit already, 239 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 not waiting for the singers to sing you there. Amen. 240 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Not waiting for me, the preacher, to preach you there. 241 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 But you come in ready. You come in in the spirit already. 242 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Why, you've prayed on Saturday. You've prayed on Friday. 243 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 You've made your mind up that you're coming to the corporate house of worship. 244 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Isn't that what the sign declares Sunday morning worship at 10.45 a.m. 245 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000 So why do we do any other thing when we get here other than worship? 246 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Worship is the supremacy of our purpose and the supremacy of our faith. 247 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 That is that we glorify who John saw. 248 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 John said, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard something behind me. 249 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 And he said, when I turned to look, here is what I saw. 250 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 I saw him standing there. His hair was white like wool. 251 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,000 His eyes like a flame of fire. Oh, my Lord, he had this vesture on, 252 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 white and long, and his feet looked as though it was polished brass. 253 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,000 And his voice sounded like the thunder of rushing many waters. 254 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 John said, that's what I saw on that day. 255 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:47,000 And here he begins to give us this unveiling of the will of God. 256 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Chapters two and three revealed us the grace of God. 257 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:03,000 As it's seen as he sends this dispatch of letters to the churches. 258 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Chapter four, we have the beginning and making its way through the 22nd chapter. 259 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,000 We see the governor, God, as it's going to be established upon the earth. 260 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 We see the throne. We hear worship. 261 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:21,000 We read the descriptions of the tribulation that's coming upon the face of the earth. 262 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,000 It's coming. Tribulation is coming. 263 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:36,000 You think it's rough now, you just wait. My plan is not to be here to see it. 264 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Chapter four and five, John's invited to come up hither. 265 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Whoo, why, there's a door open to him to come up hither. 266 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:52,000 He sees the glorious throne and hears the thunderous worship. 267 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:58,000 As John looks at the right hand of God, he notices in his hand a book. 268 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:05,000 This book is actually a scroll that is rolled up, and I love the description that John saw it with some detail. 269 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 He said it was written on both sides, on the front and the back. 270 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:16,000 But if the scroll is rolled up and it's sealed, all he could see was probably the edges around the top and the outside covering. 271 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:22,000 But he realized that it wasn't blank. It was written on front and back. What a copy, amen. 272 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:27,000 John's beginning to see this book in the hand of God, he who's sitting on the throne. 273 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:35,000 When we think about this scroll, if you will, the book is rolled up and it's sealed with this wax and seal of the king. 274 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Hallelujah. It's sealed with that wax and seal. And if you will, it's a seven chapter discourse. 275 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:47,000 You roll out one chapter before you go to chapter two. You break the seal and you unroll. 276 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:54,000 You roll this way and you unroll this way. For Hebrew probably would be written from left to right. 277 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:00,000 It's right to left. You read backwards. Amen. If it's in the ancient language, who knows, but it's in the language of God. 278 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 I don't know how it's written. It could be read up and down or horizontally. It makes no difference. 279 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,000 But it is written on front and back and it's opened and the chapters are revealed upon the earth. 280 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:17,000 But what we're finding is John is seeing he sees this strong angel. That brought attention to me. 281 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:25,000 When I read that, he saw a strong. What does a strong angel look like? I mean, I've been trying to picture in my mind. 282 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:31,000 They all will look pretty strong to me and angel. You know, what's a strong in my mind? 283 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I can see this brother, my figure stand up, bro. 284 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Kind of flex just a little. You go ahead. It's all right. I know. I mean, you work that hard. 285 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 That's a strong looking man. Amen. 286 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:54,000 And if I see him, I think that boy stout, no matter where I see brother, my cat, I will say he stout. 287 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 That's a strong man. 288 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Especially if I'm still looking in that mirror back at my chunky self and you ain't. 289 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:09,000 So maybe that's what John said. He said, I'm seeing a strong angel and the strong angel has a message. 290 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I'm seeing this. I don't know what he is. It could be could have been Michael, the warring angel. 291 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Got to be stout, got to be tough looking. Something triggered John's imagination. 292 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:28,000 As he wrote, I saw a strong angel because I think what it begins to reveal is the importance of the declaration that he's making. 293 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:36,000 He says, who is worthy? We're looking for someone worthy to take. Not just open it first. 294 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000 You got to get it out of his hand. My God, this excites me. I talked about the object of our faith. 295 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000 It's in the right hand of he who's sitting on the throne. 296 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:56,000 He's holding it, got a grip in it and a strong angel who evidently didn't have enough nerve to give it a try. 297 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:05,000 I'm thinking John's seeing this guy. Well, why don't you get it? You look stout to me. Right? 298 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,000 He said, but what he's saying is who is worthy? Looking for somebody worthy. 299 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:15,000 We're looking for one worthy who is able to get a hold and take hold of the book. 300 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:22,000 When we begin to think about this illustration of the strong angel now making that declaration, 301 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:32,000 who is worthy to open the book and to loose the chapters or the seals or the will or the plan that is written upon the face of the earth? 302 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Obviously, it's immediate response to John that no one was able, not even the strong angel. 303 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Why? Because John melts in tears. All we see is a weeping prophet and he's beginning to weep. Why? 304 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Because the declaration is this. There's not one on the earth. There's not one in heaven. 305 00:23:52,000 --> 00:24:00,000 There's not one under the earth that is worthy, who is deserving, who is weighty or important, 306 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:09,000 who carries the demeanor to go and take the book on the earth, in the earth, under the earth, in heaven or any other place. 307 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:15,000 So John is now wondering, are we going to get to see what is written in the book? 308 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Hallelujah, my Lord. The object of our faith is about to make a glorious, grander appearance. 309 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:29,000 He whose hair's like white and his eyes like fire and his voice like a thunder, he's about to approach. 310 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,000 He's about to come on. And I love it. John said there was an elder who was in the room and he said, 311 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:42,000 hey, stop your squalling, son, because there's one who has been found worthy. 312 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:50,000 There is one who is declared worthy. John had already seen the splendor of Christ in the first chapter. 313 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:58,000 He'd already written of he who was amongst the candlesticks in chapter two and three and everything building up to a crescendo. 314 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Amen. John is weeping, but he hears an encouraging word. 315 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,000 One's been found. 316 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,000 One has been found. Weep not. 317 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah. 318 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Hey, hath prevailed, hath prevailed. There was a war going on somewhere. 319 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Don't make me preach on that now. 320 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,000 There was a war going on somewhere. There was conflict going on somewhere. 321 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Weep not, John, because the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed. 322 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Amen. Think about it. 323 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Then John lifts his head to see the Lamb of God as he's now beholding in the throne room of the Father. 324 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,000 John lifts it and he sees the Lamb of God walk over and take the scroll. 325 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,000 It wasn't a tug of war. 326 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 It wasn't a war of wheels. 327 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:10,000 He walks over and the Father's hand simply opens as the lion of the tribe of Judah, 328 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,000 the only begotten of the Father, the Son, who was promised, the one who would come through the virgin. 329 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Emmanuel, meaning God, was with us. He took hold of the scroll. 330 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Don't you be weeping anymore, John, because the lion is here. 331 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Hallelujah, the object of your faith has stepped in and he stepped up and he takes hold of the scroll. 332 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,000 I can see him now. Take the scroll and just hold it up. 333 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Everybody look. I got it. 334 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:53,000 I have prevailed. None worthy on the earth. 335 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Oh, there's been many that have tried. Amen. 336 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:06,000 The deficiency of civilization is now on display. 337 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:17,000 I think we probably, oh, Lord, you know, I almost said we saw the deficiency of humanity the other night on TV. 338 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:30,000 In full display. And two rare specimens. 339 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:37,000 I don't care if you're a Democrat, demon crad or whatever, Republic of who? It doesn't make me no difference. 340 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:45,000 I'm like somebody else. They said three hundred and thirty three million people in the continental United States. 341 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:50,000 And that's the best we can put up there. 342 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Kind of makes you wonder about the rest of us, doesn't it? 343 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Civilization has made its attempts at conquering the earth. Genghis Khan made his effort. 344 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Alexander the Great made his effort. All Caesars made their efforts. 345 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Napoleon made his effort. Hitler made his effort. Stalin, all these made their efforts. 346 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:23,000 But they all fell short. Why? Because there was none worthy. Amen. 347 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:32,000 To take the title deed of the earth. I think of Jeremiah as he's been given that instruction before they are taking into captivity. 348 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Going to be there 70 years. You remember God spoke to him and said, I want you to go buy a piece of property, get the deed, roll it up and cover it up and hide it because you're going to need it one day. 349 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:52,000 My, my, my, my. The title deed to the earth and the will and the plan of God at the right hand of the father in a scroll written on both sides. 350 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:59,000 And there's none in humanity who has ever nor will ever be worthy enough. Amen. 351 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Because see, we are created and he's begotten. My God in heaven. Hey, the object of our faith. 352 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Y'all OK? 353 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Civilization is falling short. None is worthy. No hero of any generation. 354 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000 No political figure. No matter how great. 355 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:41,000 They may be. Not even the biblical patriarchs. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, not Solomon, not David, not Isaiah. 356 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Ezekiel, none. None of the apostles, not Paul, Peter, John, James, Jude, none. 357 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Worthy. 358 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000 The question was not who's willing. 359 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 But who's worthy? 360 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,000 All those others that I've told you about trying to conquer the earth were willing. 361 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:14,000 It was their desire to take the earth in control, but it wasn't God's will because they were not worthy. 362 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000 None were found worthy. John, lift up your head. 363 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:25,000 But now the lion of the tribe of Judah, the conqueror of all ages, he has prevailed. 364 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,000 So we see the triumphant worthiness of the object of our faith. 365 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,000 The power of the lamb. We don't think of lambs being very powerful. 366 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:50,000 But this lamb, the lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world, the object of our faith, metamorphs into the lion. 367 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Hallelujah. 368 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000 The power is him, the lion, the root, the root of David. 369 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:05,000 We see listed as you read further the seven horns which will display and give us insight to his omnipotence. 370 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 He's all powerful. 371 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000 You see the seven eyes of knowledge and all the wisdom. 372 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,000 We see him in his omniscience. He's all knowing. 373 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000 He's all places omnipresent. 374 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:33,000 When we think about the lamb's privilege, it was his purpose and privilege to take the book. 375 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,000 There was none other worthy other than he. 376 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000 None. 377 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Revelation 4 and 11 says thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created. 378 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Remember the word of John in that first letter. 379 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000 In the beginning was the word, the word was God, the word was with God, and the word was the same in the beginning with God. 380 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 And all things were made by him. Listen. 381 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000 And without him was not anything made that was made. 382 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,000 I'm saying Colossians 1 16 for by him were all things created. 383 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Now you see why he's the only one worthy for by him. 384 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:24,000 All things were created that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible, invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, principalities, powers. 385 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:30,000 All things were created by him and for him. 386 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000 That's the object of our faith. 387 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000 Jesus. 388 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:56,000 So when folks start talking about church and they begin to lay out everything that's going on there, ask them if Christ is the object of that said faith. 389 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:06,000 Had a person tell me not too long ago they were attending a particular place because of the concert like atmosphere. 390 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Yeah, that's what they say. 391 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,000 I'm sitting here holding it in about the bus. 392 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000 You know, I'm thinking. 393 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:22,000 I doubt if anybody leaving home wills will say that. 394 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:29,000 I thought that ain't what they said about why they come in out here. 395 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 So young person, I really wanted to. 396 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:43,000 I really want to tell them that's not the object of their faith, nor the purpose of their attendance and worship. 397 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,000 That's that's that's not why. 398 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:58,000 That's not the the concert like atmosphere is not the object of the faith, nor the purpose of our gathering. 399 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,000 I got to be careful. 400 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000 I'll get off on a tangent. 401 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000 We don't need to go there. 402 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Because he has prevailed. 403 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 He is the conqueror. 404 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:14,000 That elder said to John, weep not the lamb, the lion, the root of David. 405 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:22,000 Have prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals are of Colossians two fifteen and having spoiled principalities, 406 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:28,000 triumphing over them in it, made a show of them openly try up thing. 407 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,000 He meant over them. 408 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:38,000 And it when did that take place before he ascended according to Ephesians four, eleven and twelve before he ascended? 409 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000 He first descended into the lower parts of the earth. 410 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:47,000 And from there he took captivity captive. 411 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Huh? 412 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:59,000 For millennia, Satan had kept the souls of both the righteous and the unrighteous. 413 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000 One in the place of torment, the other in the place called paradise. 414 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:08,000 But Jesus, you know, the object of our faith. 415 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Before after the crucifixion, the resurrection, before he ascended, he first went and got his folk. 416 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:23,000 Hello. 417 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000 And that wasn't all he done when he went down there. 418 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,000 That wasn't the sole purpose of his going. 419 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,000 He went through life over every power and principality. 420 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:45,000 He took the keys to death, hell and the grave. 421 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:56,000 And every devil that had enough ignorance to stand up in front of him, he made a show. 422 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:03,000 You saw that first, no, it might not be the first one. 423 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:12,000 It's one of those adventure, Marvel films where Loki is trying to take over the earth. 424 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:19,000 You know, he's taking over and the hook, huh, up in Stark Tower. 425 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000 You remember that scene? 426 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Loki says, who do you think you are? I am a god. 427 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000 Hulk grabs him by the ankle and just begins to thump him off the floor. 428 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Just boom, just beat a hole in the floor with him. 429 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,000 And if you listen good, you can hear Hulk say, puny god. 430 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:47,000 In my mind, I can see Jesus prevailing, 431 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:54,000 making an open spoil over the devil and all of his minions in a like fashion. 432 00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Puny devil, hallelujah, making a spoil, taking authority, taking every captive with him. 433 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:10,000 The object of the faith. 434 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,000 I get myself happy sometimes. 435 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Sometimes it's a challenge to preach some of you happy, 436 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:26,000 but I can preach my own self happy pretty quick because I know the object of my faith. 437 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:32,000 And when I see stupid stuff like that on TV, I thought, oh, that could be the reality. 438 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Puny God as he's thumping him off the floor. 439 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:42,000 That's going to happen one of these days for you and I to witness. 440 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:49,000 I want a front row seat at the coronation of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 441 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000 I want a front row seat. 442 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000 I know what he's done against me. I know what he brings against my family. 443 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000 I can imagine what he's coming against you and your family with. 444 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,000 Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a front row ticket to the coronation of the King 445 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:18,000 and to see the enemy of our soul bow prostrate before him and confess him as Lord. 446 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:28,000 Now, you take and put in perspective whatever he's doing against you that a strong angel didn't do it. 447 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000 But the object of your faith can enter your situation. 448 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:41,000 Take that devil that's bugging you by the ankle and thump him off the floor and you resist him and he will flee from you. 449 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:51,000 Why? Because you draw an eye into him and he draws an eye into you. 450 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000 Hallelujah. 451 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000 The lamb is conquered. 452 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 He's the only one worthy. 453 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Romans 5.19 for us by one man's disobedience. 454 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:13,000 Many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 455 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 And there's only one that can do that. 456 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,000 Huh? It's not Confucius. 457 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000 I mean, you'd figure you'd run out of cookies by now. 458 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:29,000 He didn't have that much to say. 459 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:35,000 No Alibaba. 460 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,000 No Mohammed. 461 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:48,000 Or any elevated, created being. 462 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:54,000 But there's one by one. 463 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Well, which one is the object of your faith? 464 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 The object of the faith. 465 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000 Jesus, the only begotten, right? 466 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 The lamb conquered. 467 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:11,000 He was wounded for our transgressions. 468 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:17,000 Something that kindly stuck out in that story as well. 469 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:25,000 As we read that account, where did the lamb come from? 470 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:32,000 John is so overwhelmed by the throne room. 471 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000 He sees he who's seated on it. 472 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Being attentive to so much detail, he sees the book in his hand 473 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:49,000 that had to wear withal to see that it was written on both sides and it had seals. 474 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:58,000 Somehow he missed the lamb. 475 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:03,000 He was in the midst. 476 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,000 The call wasn't for him to come across the other spans of eternity. 477 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,000 He was right there. 478 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000 He was right there the whole time. 479 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:19,000 Isn't it amazing how that when some things come against us, 480 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:29,000 we see the detail of all that's going on and we fail to see him standing right in the midst. 481 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000 Somehow John, John missed him standing. 482 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:37,000 He was there the whole time. 483 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000 Isn't that what the old songwriter said? 484 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:45,000 He was there the whole time. 485 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000 Waiting patiently in line. 486 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,000 He was there. Jesus is there. 487 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,000 He was in the midst of the throne. 488 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:07,000 We weren't waiting for him. 489 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000 It was waiting so that all could see the declaration of the call. 490 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,000 There was only one worthy. 491 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:32,000 So if church and worship and your belief and trust in Christ is about any other thing than he being the object of it all. 492 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:41,000 Re-evaluate. Repurpose your purpose and see him in the midst. 493 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:52,000 If you've seen everything but him, you need to wipe out your vision and see him. 494 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,000 Because he is worthy. 495 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:07,000 And then John gives us that insight to all of heaven and how loud it got. 496 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:15,000 There's going to be some folks that's going to need some good hearing healing before they get to heaven. 497 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,000 I get a little too loud for some folk. 498 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:26,000 Heaven's going to get real uncomfortable in worship time. 499 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,000 John said it was so loud. I don't know how to describe it. 500 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:35,000 In Revelation 19, he says there's this this offering being made up. 501 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:41,000 It's hallelujah to the lamb. 502 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:46,000 Hallelujah to the lamb. 503 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,000 Worthy is the lamb. 504 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,000 Stand with me this morning. 505 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:03,000 The object of our faith. 506 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,000 Is the one who has authority. 507 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:12,000 The one who made a show. 508 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,000 The victorious one. 509 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000 Right. 510 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,000 Not defeated. 511 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:26,000 He was crucified. We didn't stay there. 512 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000 Told you a few weeks ago that was that was the nuance of the mission. 513 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,000 It was necessary. 514 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:39,000 I mean, you can't resurrect unless they put you in a tomb. 515 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:44,000 Dying wasn't the whole plan. It was the resurrecting part. 516 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,000 That was the whole emphasis of Calvary was the resurrection. 517 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000 He was in. His price had to be played. 518 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:59,000 His his blood had to be spilt. 519 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000 But it's all about that raising from the dead. 520 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:09,000 What did Paul say for if Christ be not risen, then is our faith what? 521 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:20,000 He's not dead. He's alive. 522 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:26,000 But he has. 523 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:32,000 My purpose this morning is just been to try to get you to see him just a little bit. 524 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:38,000 Just to draw our focus back to the object of our faith. 525 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:44,000 Everything that's going on in the peripheral. 526 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,000 John didn't see him until he stepped out to take the scroll. 527 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,000 But he was there the whole time. 528 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,000 He was in the midst right in the middle. 529 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000 He was there. 530 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,000 So. 531 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:09,000 If you need a touch, not from a strong angel. 532 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:19,000 But from the object of your faith, because there's stuff going on all around you. 533 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:24,000 How many times have we been looking for something and you couldn't see it for looking? 534 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,000 Couldn't find it for looking. 535 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:33,000 And about the night time you go back to the probably the nearly first or second place you thought it was there it lays. 536 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,000 Because you saw everything. 537 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,000 But what you went after. 538 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:44,000 Children are the world's worst. I remember dad sending me for stuff. 539 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,000 Will be under you if you didn't find it. 540 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,000 You didn't want pops to have to go get it. 541 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000 When he explained to you right where it was at. 542 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,000 He's in the midst of your mess. 543 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,000 If you just need a reminder that this morning heads about all over the house. 544 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000 If you need a touch this morning, just make your way down. 545 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,000 You need a healing touch. He's your healer. 546 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:16,000 A delivering touch. He is the deliverer. 547 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000 A resurgence of hope. 548 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:25,000 He is our hope. 549 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,000 It's been chaos around. 550 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:43,000 Pastor, it's been chaos. 551 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:49,000 Mighty God. 552 00:47:49,000 --> 00:48:02,000 He is the worthy one. 553 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:12,000 He is the worthy one. 554 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:19,000 Heavenly Father, I love you this morning. 555 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:46,000 Hallelujah.