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SERIES: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WEEK 25

TITLE: A LOUD DOXOLOGY

TEXT: REVELATION 5:11-14

INTRODUCTION: (1) THE WORD “LOUD” IS USED 70 TIMES IN THE NEW AMERICAN STANDARD TRANSLATION.

* NOW MOST OF THE TIME THE ADJECTIVE LOUD IS CONNECTED TO THE WORD VOICE OR VOICES, THE PHRASE “A LOUD VOICE” USED REPEATEDLY IN SCRIPTURE.

** BUT ALSO THE ADJECTIVE LOUD IS CONNECTED WITH A TRUMPET IN SCRIPTURE, A LOUD TRUMPET.

*** BEYOND THAT, THE PHRASE LOUD INSTRUMENTS IS USED, LOUD CYMBALS, A LOUD NOISE, A LOUD CRASH, A LOUD CRY, LOUD LAMENTATION, LOUD CRYING AND LOUD THUNDER.

**** NOW WHEN WE USE THE WORD LOUD WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HIGH VOLUME, HIGH INTENSITY, SOMETHING NOISY.

(2) AND WE ALL IDENTIFY WITH LOUD THINGS, FOR WE LIVE IN A CULTURE WITH A LOT OF LOUD NOISE.

* WE HAVE LOUD MUSIC, LOUD CROWDS AT CONCERTS AND GAMES, WE HAVE LOUD AIRPLANES, LOUD CARS, LOUD MACHINERY, LOUD SIRENS AND LOUD T.V.’S TO NAME A FEW THINGS.

** AND BASICALLY WE LIVE IN A LOUD CULTURE. WE KNOW WHAT LOUD IS ALL ABOUT. AND SOME OF US AT TIMES WANT QUIET, BECAUSE LIFE IS SO LOUD AND WITH OTHERS THEY LIKE LOUD.

*** NOW WHETHER YOU LIKE LOUD OR SOFT OR QUIET OR ALL OF THE ABOVE, WE HAVE SOMETHING LOUD THAT TAKES PLACE IN OUR TEXT TODAY, IT IS A LOUD DOXOLOGY.

**** FOR IN REVELATION 5:11-14, WE HAVE THE 4TH OF 14 DOXOLOGIES RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

(3) AND A DOXOLOGY IS A HYMN OR FORM OF WORD CONTAINING AN ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE TO GOD.

* AND SPECIFICALLY IN REVELATION 5:12 WE HAVE LOUD WORSHIP, WE HAVE LOUD PRAISE, WE HAVE A LOUD DOXOLOGY.

** AND HEAVEN BURSTS FORTH TO SAY WITH A LOUD VOICE, WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.

*** AND I’M SURE AT THIS FUTURE TIME, THE ECHO IS HEARD THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE.

**** BUT IT WILL GET LOUDER, FOR IN V. 13, THE GREAT HEAVENLY HOST THAT IS INNUMERABLE WILL BE JOINED BY EVERY CREATED THING ON THE EARTH, AND EARTH AND HEAVEN EXPLODE IN DOXOLOGY TO THE LORD GOD AND THE LORD JESUS.

(4) IT WILL BE INCREDIBLE, IT WILL BE BEAUTIFUL, AND IT WILL MAKE THE BEST MUSIC EVER COMPOSED SOUND LIKE RACKET IN COMPARISON TO THE HOLY, PURE PRAISE THAT WILL IGNITE FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH.

* IT WILL BE A HEAVENLY HYDROGEN BOMB EXPLODING IN WORSHIP TO THE ANCIENT OF DAYS AND TO THE LAMB.

** AND WE’LL GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS LOUD FUTURE EVENT IN REVELATION 5:11-14 WHICH I’VE SIMPLY TITLED, A LOUD DOXOLOGY.

*** AND UNDER THAT THEME WE’LL LOOK AT 4 POINTS. NO. 1 THE COUNTLESS NUMBER OF ANGELS THAT WORSHIP THE LAMB IN V. 11; NO. 2 THE CRESCENDO OF WORSHIP IN V. 12; NO. 3 THE CREATURES ON THE EARTH THAT JOIN THIS HEAVENLY CHORUS, V. 13; AND NO. 4 CULMINATION OF THIS UNIVERSAL WORSHIP SERVICE, V. 14.

**** SO WE’LL LOOK AT THE COUNTLESS, THE CRESCENDO, THE CREATURES AND THE CULMINATION UNDER THE THEME OF A LOUD DOXOLOGY.

(5) AND WITH THAT OUTLINE TO WORK WITH, LOOK AT V. 11 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR FIRST POINT TODAY, THE COUNTLESS.

I. THE COUNTLESS, (READ V. 11)

A. NOW THE SETTING FOR THIS WORSHIP EVENT WE ARE STUDYING TODAY IS “AROUND THE THRONE” IN HEAVEN.

* IT IS ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE AND COULD BE TRANSLATED ENCIRCLING THE THRONE.

** AND TWO OF JOHN’S SENSES ARE ACTIVATED HERE, HE LOOKED AND HE HEARD.

*** AND WHAT HE SAW WAS A MYRIAD OF ANGELS AROUND THE THRONE AND WHAT HE HEARD WAS THE VOICES OF MANY ANGELS.

**** BUT JOHN NOT ONLY SEES AND HEARS MANY ANGELS, BUT ALSO THE LIVING CREATURES LIT. THE LIVING BEINGS, THE LIVING BEASTS WHICH ARE 4 IN NUMBER IN REVELATION 4&5, SOME SAY CHERUBIM, OTHERS SERAPHIM, OR AN EXALTED ORDER OF ANGELS. BUT JOHN SEES THESE 4 LIVING BEINGS.

1. BUT ALSO HE SEES THE 24 ELDERS, WHICH IN MY STUDY REPRESENT THE GLORIFIED CHURCH IN HEAVEN AT THIS FUTURE TIME.

* AND AS YOU PUT THESE THREE GROUPS TOGETHER, THE NUMBER OF THEM WAS MYRIADS OF MYRIADS AND THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS OR TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND AND THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS.

** AND THE PHRASE TEN THOUSAND IS THE GREEK WORD MOO-REE-AS FROM WHICH WE GET OUR ENGLISH WORD MYRIAD.

*** AND MOO-REE-AS WAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER FOR WHICH THE GREEKS HAD A WORD.

**** SO IN ESSENCE WE HAVE AN UNCOUNTABLE HOST, THIS NUMBER DEFIES CALCULATION, AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY, AN INCALCULABLE MULTITUDE, LOW ESTIMATE – MILLIONS, OTHER ESTIMATES BILLIONS.

2. THUS WE HAVE OUR FIRST POINT IN MY OUTLINE TODAY: THE COUNTLESS.

* A COUNTLESS HEAVENLY HOST IS INVOLVED IN THIS WORSHIP AND PRAISE TIME WHICH LEADS US TO OUR 2’D POINT TODAY, THE CRESCENDO. LOOK AT V. 12 PLEASE.

II. THE CRESCENDO, (READ V. 12)

A. NOW ALL OF YOU WITH ANY KIND OF MUSIC BACKGROUND KNOW WHAT A CRESCENDO IS.

* IT CAN BE DEFINED AS A GRADUAL INCREASE IN LOUDNESS, A STEADY INCREASE IN FORCE OR INTENSITY OR THE CLIMACTIC POINT IN SUCH AN INCREASE; A PEAK.

** WELL, IN V. 12 WE REACH A PEAK, FOR IT SAYS, “SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE.”

*** AND THE MYRIADS OF ANGELS, THE ELDERS AND THE LIVING CREATURES HIT THIS PEAK, THEY BURST FORTH, THEY OVERFLOW IN INTENSITY WITH A MEGA VOICE.

**** FOR THIS GREEK ADJECTIVE LOUD IS THE WORD MEGAS FROM WHICH WE GET OUR ENGLISH WORD MEGA WHICH MEANS EXTREMELY LARGE, HUGE, REALLY BIG.

1. AND ALSO OUR WORD MEGA-PHONE CAN BE APPLIED HERE, FOR A MEGA-PHONE IS A DEVICE THAT AMPLIFIES THE VOICE.

* AND THESE VOICES ARE AMPLIFIED TO A HIGH DECIBEL SOUND SAYING: “WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.”

** AND WE KNOW THE LAMB IS CHRIST AND THE THEME OF REDEMPTION CONTINUES HERE FROM V. 9 FOR THE WORD SLAIN IS USED.

*** AND IN THE REDEMPTION SONG OF VV. 9&10, THE 24 ELDERS AND POSSIBLY THE 4 LIVING CREATURES SANG THIS REDEMPTION SONG THAT THE LAMB WAS SLAIN AND PURCHASED FOR GOD THE SOULS OF ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE.

**** AND I COMMUNICATED LAST WEEK THAT THE REDEMPTION WAS ACCOMPLISHED AND APPLIED IN CHRIST’S DEATH FOR HIS PEOPLE, NOT POTENTIALLY, BUT ACTUALLY, A PERFECT REDEMPTION FOR THOSE HE DIED FOR, HIS ELECT.

2. WELL, THE WORSHIP THAT TAKES PLACE IN OUR TEXT TODAY IS ROOTED IN THE TRUTH, “WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.”

* NOW SPECIFICALLY WHAT IS THE LAMB WORTHY OF? WELL TO RECEIVE 7 THINGS.

** CHRIST’S WORTHINESS TRIGGERS A RESPONSE TO WHAT HE DESERVES AND IS IN HIS BEING AS GOD, AND WHAT HE HAS DONE.

*** FOR SOMEONE WHO IS WORTHY IS BEFITTING, THEY HAVE MERITED A RESPONSE.

**** THERE IS THE WEIGHT OF WORTH, THE RIGHT TO SOMETHING.

3. AND IT IS BEFITTING TO CHRIST TO WORSHIP HIM, HE HAS MERITED THIS EXPLOSION OF WORSHIP AND THE WEIGHT OF HIS WORTH IS WHAT IS THE DRIVING FORCE HERE, HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS COMPELS WORSHIP.

* AND WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS THE SINGLE ARTICLE TO BEFORE THE VERB RECEIVE, FOLLOWED BY 7 NOUNS JOINED BY THE CONJUNCTION AND, THAT FORM A CRESCENDO OF PRAISE.

** JOHN RITCHIE IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION SAYS AT THIS POINT AND I QUOTE:

*** “POWER, RICHES, WISDOM, STRENGTH, HONOUR, GLORY AND BLESSING ARE ENDOWMENTS SUITABLE FOR ONE WHO HAS TRIUMPHED THROUGH THE CROSS.”

**** HE GOES ON TO SAY: “FOR THE THIRD IN THE CHAPTER (THIS CHAPTER, CHAPTER 5) THE GROUND OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE LAMB IS EMPHASIZED.”

4. “THE ONE “THAT WAS SLAIN” AND AS THE LAMB, STILL WITH MARKS OF SACRIFICE UPON HIM, IS THE ONE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THOSE THINGS THAT BELONG TO DEITY.” (END QUOTE)

* NOW WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS THAT BELONG TO DEITY, TO GOD, THAT CHRIST IS WORTHY TO RECEIVE RECOGNITION, WORSHIP AND PRAISE FOR?

** WELL, 7 THINGS, THAT IN A SENSE TOGETHER, THESE 7 THINGS TELL WITH COMPLETENESS WHAT THE LAMB IS WORTHY TO RECEIVE AND WHAT IS PART OF HIS BEING ALREADY AS GOD.

*** NO. 1 POWER, THE GREEK WORD DOO-NAM-IS FROM WHICH WE GET OUR ENGLISH WORD DYNAMITE. AND OF COURSE AS GOD HE IS ALL-POWERFUL, OMNIPOTENT.

**** AND CHRIST POSSESSES EACH ONE OF THESE ATTRIBUTES, BUT THE EMPHASIS HERE IN HIS REDEMPTION WORK AS THE LAMB HE IS WORTHY TO RECEIVE RECOGNITION OF THESE ATTRIBUTES IN WORSHIP AND PRAISE.

5. NO. 2 RICHES, HE OWNS EVERYTHING, PSALM 50:10 SAYS: (READ IT).

* AND HERE IN LIGHT OF REDEMPTION, REMEMBER IN HIS INCARNATION, HIS FIRST ADVENT TO EARTH, THE RICH ONE WHO OWNS ALL, BECAME POOR AND LEFT THE GLORY OF HEAVEN TO MAKE US RICH SPIRITUALLY IN SAVING US FROM SIN, READ II CORINTHIANS 8:9.

** SO THE RICH ONE BECAME POOR SO WE WOULD BE RICH IN SALVATION, FORGIVENESS AND ONE DAY HEAVEN.

*** BUT MOVING ON THE 3’D ATTRIBUTE TALKED ABOUT IS WISDOM.

**** AND OF COURSE CHRIST IS WISDOM, THE SOURCE OF IT, HE IS OMNISCIENT, HE IS THE ALL-WISE ONE AND WISDOM’S SOURCE IS CHRIST.

6. NO. 4 IS STRENGTH. AND HERE STRENGTH IS DIFFERENT FROM POWER FOR IT IS TALKING ABOUT ABILITY AND CAPABILITY, MIGHT.

* AND OF COURSE IN HIS BEING AS GOD, CHRIST HAS THE MIGHT TO FULFILL HIS WILL. HE CAN DO WHATEVER PLEASES HIS FATHER WHICH IS ALWAYS A HOLY WILL AND THE ABILITY, THE CAPABILITY TO FULFILL THAT WILL.

** NO. 5 IS HONOR. AND HONOR IS GOD’S RIGHTFUL POSSESSION. AND HONOR AND REVERENCE IS DUE CHRIST BECAUSE OF HIS SACRIFICIAL DEATH, GOING BACK TO THE THEME OF REDEMPTION.

*** NO. 6 IS GLORY. AND GLORY IS THE GREEK WORD DOXA FROM WHICH WE GET OUR ENGLISH WORD DOXOLOGY WHICH I DEFINED IN MY INTRODUCTION TODAY.

**** AND CHRIST IS THE GLORIOUS ONE, AND HIS GLORY WAS EVEN SEEN IN HIS INCARNATION FOR JOHN SAID IN JOHN 1:14 (READ IT).

7. AND OF COURSE CHRIST IS WORTHY OF GLORY AS THE GLORIOUS ONE.

* AND THEN NO. 7 BLESSING, TRANSLATED PRAISE IN THE NIV AND THE GREEK WORD FOR BLESSING IS THE WORD WE GET OUR ENGLISH WORD EULOGY.

** AND TO EULOGIZE IS TO PRAISE SOMEONE’S LIFE, TO HONOR SOMEONE AFTER THEY ARE DECEASED AT THEIR FUNERAL. IT IS TO COMMEND, IT IS HIGH PRAISE.

*** AND AS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN, THE HIGHEST PRAISE, THE HIGHEST BLESSING, THE HIGHEST COMMENDATION IS DUE CHRIST.

8. SO WHAT IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN WORTHY OF?

* POWER, RICHES, WISDOM, MIGHT, HONOR, GLORY AND BLESSING.

** AND MAY WE ASCRIBE THOSE CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTRIBUTES TO HIM. WHY? HE IS WORTHY!!

*** WHICH LEADS US TO V. 13, AS THE WORSHIP CHORUS GROWS IN NUMBER. LOOK AT V. 13 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR 3’D POINT, THE CREATURES.

III. THE CREATURES, (READ V. 13)

A. NOW JOHN HEARS SOMETHING ELSE THAT HE HAD NOT HEARD BEFORE IN V. 13.

* AND THAT IS THE VOICES OF EVERY CREATED THING IN THE UNIVERSE.

** FOR THE EXPRESSION “IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH AND ON THE SEA” IS A COMMON BIBLICAL EXPRESSION TO TALK ABOUT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

*** AND THE WORDS “ALL CREATED THINGS” OR “CREATURES” MAKES REFERENCE TO ALL LIVING BEINGS, ALL INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH.

**** ROBERT THOMAS IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION SAID AT THIS POINT AND I QUOTE:

1. “THE ENTIRETY OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN GOD’S CREATION JOINS IN, EVEN FALLEN ANGELS IMPRISONED “UNDER THE EARTH” (CF. II PETER 2:4; JUDE 6) AND UNREDEEMED HUMANITY WHO MUST SOMEDAY JOIN IN RECOGNIZING THE PREEMINENT QUALITIES OF GOD AND THE LAMB (CF. PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11).”

* HE WENT ON TO SAY, “AS IS THE CASE WITH OTHER HEAVENLY SONGS OF THIS BOOK, THIS ONE IS ANTICIPATORY OF THE GREAT FUTURE DAY WHEN NO ONE WILL WITHHOLD FROM GOD HIS DUE. THE PROGRAM OF THE APOCALYPSE (THE BOOK OF REVELATION) PROGRESSES TOWARD THIS GOAL.” END QUOTE.

** NOW THIS WILL ALL HAPPEN AT A FUTURE TIME, TALKED ABOUT IN PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 (READ IT).

*** AND THIS PROBABLY WILL BE THE FULFILLMENT OF WHAT IS TALKED ABOUT IN ROMANS 8:19-22.

**** ROMANS 8:19 – FOR THE ANXIOUS LONGING OF THE CREATION WAITS EAGERLY FOR THE REVEALING OF THE SONS OF GOD.

V. 20 – FOR THE CREATION WAS SUBJECTED TO FUTILITY, NOT WILLINGLY, BUT BECAUSE OF HIM WHO SUBJECTED IT, IN HOPE

V. 21 – THAT THE CREATION ITSELF ALSO WILL BE SET FREE FROM ITS SLAVERY TO CORRUPTION INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE GLORY OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

V. 22 – FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS AND SUFFERS THE PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH TOGETHER UNTIL NOW.

2. NOW A DAY IS COMING WHEN ALL CREATION AND ALL CREATED BEINGS WILL JOIN TOGETHER AND SAY TO GOD ALMIGHTY WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND TO THE LAMB, “BE BLESSING AND HONOR AND GLORY AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER.”

* AND THIS SCENE ECHOES ALL OF PSALM 148 WHERE PRAISE RISES UP FROM ALL CREATION.

** THIS TIME REMINDS US OF PSALM 69:34 WHICH SAYS: LET HEAVEN AND EARTH PRAISE HIM, THE SEAS AND EVERYTHING THAT MOVES IN THEM.

*** AND THIS EVEN IN REVELATION 5 ALSO REMINDS US OF PSALM 150:6 WHICH SAYS: (READ IT).

**** AND EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH WILL ONE DAY PRAISE THE LORD AS REVELATION 5:13 DECLARES.

3. AND IT WILL BE AN EXPLOSION OF DOXOLOGY BY ALL CREATURES AND EVERY CREATED THING INCLUDING THE ROCKS AND HILLS CRYING OUT TO THE LORD AND ASCRIBING BLESSING, HONOR, GLORY AND DOMINION TO GOD ALMIGHTY AND TO THE LAMB.

* AND IMAGINE WITH ME THE LARGEST CROWD YOU HAVE BEEN A PART OF CHANTING THESE TRUTHS.

** AND THE LARGEST CROWD I HAVE EVER BEEN A PART OF WAS 105,000 PEOPLE AT THE HORSESHOE IN COLUMBUS TO WATCH THE SCARLET AND GRAY.

*** AND ON EVERY BIG PLAY A ROAR FROM THE CROWD WOULD ERUPT. IT WAS ELECTRIC, IT WAS COOL, IT WAS SWEET, WHATEVER ADJECTIVE YOU WANT TO USE.

**** BUT MULTIPLY SOMETHING LIKE THAT BY ABOUT 1,000 AND YOU START TO GET A GLIMPSE OF WHAT WILL BE GOING ON IN THIS TIME.

4. AS THE EXPLOSION OF PRAISE BURSTS FORTH FROM ALL OF CREATION AS ENDLESS BLESSING, ENDLESS PRAISE, ENDLESS GLORY AND ENDLESS DOMINION BELONG TO GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON.

* BELOVED, THE CREATION EXPLODES WITH COMPLETE UNANIMITY, THERE IS NO DISCORD, NO DISUNITY, NO DISSENT, BUT WITH COMPLETE UNANIMITY THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE JOINS IN THIS DESERVED ACCLAMATION.

** HERE WE SEE A WORSHIPPING UNIVERSE HONORING THE ONE ON THE THRONE AND THE LAMB – WOW. THEY ARE TO BE EQUALLY WORSHIPPED FOREVER AND EVER. WHAT A DOXOLOGY!

*** AND THIS WORSHIP LEADS TO A CULMINATION, AN APEX AND PROSTRATION IN IT’S HIGHEST POINT IN V. 14. LOOK AT V. 14 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR LAST POINT QUICKLY, THE CULMINATION.

IV. THE CULMINATION, (READ V. 14)

A. NOW LOST IN AWE, IN WONDER, IN ADORATION AND PRAISE, THE 4 LIVING CREATURES COULD ONLY KEEP SAYING AMEN, SO BE IT, TRUTH, MAY IT BE.

* I MEAN THE UNIVERSE PROCLAIMS LET THERE BE BLESSING TO OUR GOD AND CHRIST, THE 4 LIVING CREATURES SAY AMEN.

** LET THERE BE HONOR TO OUR GOD – AMEN.

*** LET THERE BE GLORY, THE 4 LIVING CREATURES SAY AMEN.

**** LET THERE BE MIGHT, DOMINION, POWER, ASCRIBED TO THE ALL-MIGHTY AND THEY EXCLAIM: AMEN!

1. SO REPEATEDLY THEY SAY AMEN TO THESE TRUTHS.

* AND ALL THE ELDERS CAN DO IN RESPONSE TO ALL OF THIS IS FALL BEFORE THE THRONE AND WORSHIP!

** AND WHEN I SAY THAT’S ALL, I MEAN THAT IS THE ONLY APPROPRIATE THING THEY CAN DO, PROSTRATE YOURSELF BEFORE GOD AND WORSHIP HIM. WHAT A SCENE!

*** LOUD DOXOLOGY, AMENS, AND FALLING DOWN AND WORSHIP IS THE RESPONSE TO THE WORTHY ONE IN THIS GREAT FUTURE SCENE IN HEAVEN.

**** WE HAVE A FRESH ACT OF HOMAGE THAT NEVER GROWS OLD. SUBMISSION AND SUBJECTION TO THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE.

IN WRAP UP AND IN APPLICATION: (1) I ASK THE QUESTIONS, HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS TEXT?

* HOW DOES THIS HIT YOU? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO US?

** WELL, TWO THINGS HERE. NO. 1 THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE AND YOUR DAILY WORSHIP. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO OUR GREAT GOD?

*** SOMETIMES THERE IS SILENCE, BE STILL. OTHER TIMES, CONFESSION. OTHER TIMES EXPLOSION, CONTROLLED EXPLOSION TO THE GREAT TRUTHS THAT GOVERN OUR BEHAVIOR AND LIVES.

**** APATHY, SELFISHNESS, SELF-CENTEREDNESS, DISOBEDIENCE, AND STINGINESS WITH OUR TIME, TALENTS AND TREASURE IS NOT A PROPER RESPONSE TO WORSHIP THE ONE ON THE THRONE AND THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.

(2) WE SHOULD BE ALIVE AND VIBRANT AND HUMBLED AND IN AWE IN OUR CORPORATE WORSHIP, NEVER BORED, DISINTERESTED OR DISENGAGED.

* BUT IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES, WORSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE SHOULD LEAD US TO THESE THINGS.

** WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN MEANS: AND I AM TAKING THIS FROM WILLIAM MACDONALD’S BELIEVER’S BIBLE COMMENTARY,

*** WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN MEANS: 1. POWER – OVER MY LIFE, THE CHURCH, THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE;

* IT MEANS: 2 RICHES – ALL MY SILVER AND GOLD IS HIS.

** IT MEANS IN APPLICATION, NO. 3 WISDOM. THE FINEST OF MY INTELLECTUAL POWERS DEDICATED TO HIM.

*** NO. 4 IT MEANS STRENGTH. MY PHYSICAL STRENGTH FOR HIS SERVICE.

**** NO. 5 HONOR. A SINGLE, PURE DESIRE TO MAGNIFY HIM IN ALL MY WAY.

(3) IT MEANS NO. 6 GLORY –MY ENTIRE LIFE GLORIFYING HIM.

* AND NO. 7, BLESSING OR PRAISE – ALL MY POWERS OF PRAISE FOR HIM.

** FOR YOU SEE, IT COMES BACK TO THIS RECURRING THEME, EVERYTHING IS FOR HIM, IT’S ALL ABOUT HM.

*** MAY OUR LIVES BE EXPRESSED BY LIVING A LIFE OF LOUD DOXOLOGY FOR HIM.