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SERIES: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WEEK 3

TITLE: SALUTATION AND DOXOLOGY

TEXT: REVELATION 1:4-6

INTRODUCTION: (1) THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY IS WHAT I WOULD CALL “A REVEALED MYSTERY.”

* IT’S A MYSTERY FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER TRUTH EXACTLY LIKE IT IN OUR REALM OF UNDERSTANDING AND EXPERIENCE.

** IT TRANSCENDS OUR FINITE COMPREHENSION AS HUMANS, IT GOES BEYOND NATURAL UNDERSTANDING, THERE IS REALLY NOTHING LIKE IT THAT WE CAN COMPARE TO IN OUR NATURAL UNDERSTANDING OR REASON.

*** YET THIS MYSTERY IS REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE CLEARLY. IT IS A SUPERNATURAL FACT AND TRUTH ABOUT OUR SUPERNATURAL GOD REVEALED IN HIS SUPERNATURAL BOOK THE BIBLE.

*** SO THE TRUTH OF THIS DOCTRINE IS ACCEPTED BY FAITH, ROOTED IN SCRIPTURE, AND WHILE IT IS ABOVE NATURAL HUMAN REASON, IT IS NOT OPPOSED TO REASON THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHING US.

**** NOW THIS GREAT DOCTRINE TEACHES US THE UNIT OF 3 PERSONS IN ONE GOD.

(2) THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE IS: THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, ONE DIVINE NATURE OR BEING.

* AND THIS ONE DIVINE BEING IS TRI-PERSONAL, INVOLVING THE DISTINCTIONS OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONE GOD – THREE PERSONS.

** AND THESE 3 PERSONS ARE JOINT PARTAKERS OF THE SAME NATURE AND MAJESTY OF GOD.

*** SO THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD, BUT IN THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD, THERE ARE 3 CO-ETERNAL AND CO-EQUAL PERSONS IN THE GODHEAD.

**** AND ALTHOUGH THE WORD TRINITY IS NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE, THE TRUTH IS CLEAR AND IS A COINED PHRASE THAT IS USED TO HELP US DEFINE THE TRIUNE GOD, THE ONE WHO IS THEY.

(3) NOW THIS GREAT DOCTRINE AFFORDS US A GLIMPSE INTO THE WONDERFUL BEING OF OUR GOD, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME IT CONSTANTLY PROCLAIMS THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF COMPREHENDING GOD TOTALLY IN THIS LIFE.

* THERE IS THE TRUTH OF THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD TO TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE INFINITE ONE AS FINITE BEINGS, AS EVERYTHING IS NOT REVEALED, THERE ARE SECRET THINGS IN THAT SENSE, THE DOCTRINE AGAIN IS REVEALED MYSTERY.

** BUT WHAT IS REVEALED WE CAN UNDERSTAND THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, DEUTERONOMY 29:29 SAYS: (READ IT). ALSO READ ROMANS 11:33-36 AND I CORINTHIANS 1:25.

*** NOW OUR GOD IS GREAT, HIS WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND BEING IS BEYOND NATURAL REASON. BUT THESE TRUTHS EXALT HIM IN HIS GREATNESS.

**** AND WHILE THESE TRUTHS MAY BE A STUMBLING-BLOCK TO RATIONALISM, IT IS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE THESE TRUTHS A SAFE-GUARD AGAINST ALL TENDENCY TO RATIONALISM OR INTELLECTUAL PRIDE.

(4) AND FURTHER, IN THE TRINITY WE SHOULD BEHOLD NOT ONLY A GOD WHO IS EXALTED FAR ABOVE US, BUT ONE WHO WOULD CONDESCEND TO US TO SAVE US IN THE PERSON OF THE SON. THE DOCTRINE IS HUMBLING AND GOD EXALTING.

* NOW THIS DOCTRINE, THIS TRUTH IS COMMUNICATED IN THE SALUTATION SECTION OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION THAT WE ARE GOING TO STUDY TODAY.

** AND THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT AND THE SON ARE REVEALED AS THE SOURCE OF ALL GRACE AND PEACE, AND TRUTHS ABOUT WHO THEY ARE AND THEIR WORK ARE REVEALED.

*** AND AS THESE TRUTHS ARE REVEALED IN THE SALUTATION SECTION OF REVELATION, THEY LEAD TO DOXOLOGY AT THE END OF V. 6.

**** SO TODAY IN OUR STUDY OF REVELATION AS WE LOOK AT VV. 4-6, WE WILL LOOK AT THE SALUTATION WHICH PRESENTS GOD IN HIS TRINITARIAN FORM AND THE RESPONSE IS DOXOLOGY.

(5) DOCTRINE UNDERSTOOD AND APPLIED LEADS TO DOXOLOGY.

* AND UNDER THE TITLE OF SALUTATION AND DOXOLOGY, WE’LL LOOK AT 4 POINTS IN OUR STUDY OF REVELATION 1:4-6.

** NO. 1 THE GREETING BY JOHN TO THE 7 CHURCHES HE IS WRITING TO, V. 4A; NO. 2 THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD REVEALED IN THE TRINITY, V. 4B AND V. 5A; NO. 3 THE GRACE OF CHRIST REVEALED IN LOVE AND FORGIVING US, V. 5B AND V. 6A; AND NO. 4 THE GLORY OR DOXOLOGY GIVEN TO OUR GREAT GOD IN RESPONSE TO WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE, V. 6B.

*** SO WE’LL LOOK AT THE GREETING, THE GREATNESS, THE GRACE AND THE GLORY IN REVELATION 1:4-6 UNDER THE TITLE OF SALUTATION AND DOXOLOGY.

**** AND WITH THAT IN MIND, LOOK AT V. 4A PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR FIRST POINT, THE GREETING.

I. THE GREETING, (READ V. 4A)

A. NOW THE SALUTATION HERE IN REVELATION HAS 3 ELEMENTS, THE AUTHOR, THE ADDRESSEES AND THE GREETING.

* AND THE AUTHOR AND INSPIRED WRITER IS JOHN THE BELOVED DISCIPLE, THE APOSTLE JOHN, WHO WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND THE 3 EPISTLES OF JOHN, FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD JOHN.

** NOW THE ADDRESSEES TO WHOM THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN TO, THE RECIPIENTS ARE THE SEVEN CHURCHES THAT ARE IN ASIA.

*** AND THOSE SEVEN CHURCHES ARE IDENTIFIED IN V. 11 OF CHAPTER 1 AS THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS, THE CHURCH AT SMYRNA, THE CHURCH AT PERGAMUM, THE CHURCH AT THYATIRA, THE CHURCH AT SARDIS, THE CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA AND THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA.

**** NOW THESE WERE 7 LITERAL REAL CHURCHES THAT EXISTED IN THAT DAY IN THE ROMAN PROVINCE OF ASIA, NOT THE MODERN DAY CONTINENT OF ASIA, BUT WHAT WOULD BE MODERN TURKEY.

1. AND LAST OF ALL THE GREETING WAS GRACE AND PEACE.

* AND THESE TWO WORDS CAPTURE THE RICHNESS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, GRACE EMBODYING GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE BELIEVER COUPLED WITH HIS GRACIOUS LOVING GIFTS TO US, HIS UNMERITED FAVOR AND KINDNESS.

** AND THEN PEACE SPEAKS OF RELATIONSHIP, HERE ESPECIALLY THE PEACE OF GOD. GRACE REPRESENTS STANDING AND PEACE REPRESENTS EXPERIENCE HERE.

*** AND THESE ARE COMMON GREETINGS IN THE N.T. AND THE SOURCE OF ALL GRACE AND PEACE IS OUR GREAT GOD WHICH IS A SEGWAY INTO OUR 2’D POINT TODAY, LOOK BACK AT V. 4 PLEASE.

II. THE GREATNESS, (READ V. 4)

A. NOW JOHN, THE HUMAN INSPIRED AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK (THE ULTIMATE AUTHOR BEING THE HOLY SPIRIT), JOHN IS ONLY THE CHANNEL OF GRACE AND PEACE.

* FOR THE SOURCE OF THE GRACE AND PEACE WHICH COMES TO MEN IS GOD.

** AND THREE STATEMENTS BEGINNING IN V. 4B AND CONTINUE IN V. 5 UNPACK FOR US THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD.

*** AND THE THREEFOLD REPETITION OF THE PREPOSITION “FROM” SHOWS THE TRIUNE GOD, THE TRINITY AS THE SOURCE OF GRACE AND PEACE IN TERMS OF GREATNESS.

**** FIRST OF ALL FROM HIM WHO IS, WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, SPEAKING OF GOD THE FATHER, THE ETERNAL FATHER.

1. AND HOW GOD THE FATHER IS PRESENTED AS ONE WHO TRANSCENDS ALL TIME, AS THE TIMELESS ETERNAL ONE.

* AND THIS TITLE REFLECTS THE TRUTH EXPRESSED BY THE O.T. NAME JEHOVAH, THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE, I AM WHO I AM.

** FOR GOD HAS NO BEGINNING AND END, HE HAS ALWAYS EXISTED AND ALWAYS WILL EXIST, THERE IS NOTHING BEFORE, HE HAS NO ORIGIN, HE IS ETERNAL.

*** AND IN THE BEGINNING OF BEGINNINGS BEFORE BEGINNINGS EVER BEGAN, GOD WAS.

**** AND TIME IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INHERENT FEATURE OF CREATION, BUT THE FATHER IS OUTSIDE OF TIME.

2. HE IS, HE WAS AND IS TO COME. AND THESE 3 EXPRESSIONS BRING THE ETERNAL FATHER WITHIN THE REALM OF HUMAN THOUGHT.

* SO THE FIRST FROM HERE IS THE FATHER.

** NOW THE 2’D “FROM” IS THE SEVEN SPIRITS WHO ARE BEFORE THE THRONE OF THE FATHER.

*** AND ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME DEBATE ABOUT WHAT THIS STATEMENT MEANS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATORS AGREE THAT THIS EXPRESSION IS TALKING ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT.

**** NOW SOME HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THE SEVEN SPIRITS ARE SEVEN ANGELS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD, AND ON THE SURFACE THAT SOUNDS PRETTY LOGICAL.

3. BUT FURTHER STUDY REFUTES THAT IDEA. NO. 1 BECAUSE THE WORD FOR SPIRIT IN THE GREEK “PNEUMA” IS NEVER USED TO TALK ABOUT ANGELS IN THE 70-71 REFERENCES TO ANGELS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

* THE WORD ALWAYS USED IS ANG-EL-OS NOT PNEUMA.

** NO. 2 AND MORE IMPORTANTLY IS THE IDEA THAT CREATED BEINGS LIKE ANGELS COULD BE SEEN AS A SOURCE OF GRACE AND PEACE – FROM ANGELS.

*** THIS WOULD PLACE ANGELS ALONGSIDE THE FATHER AND SON AS EQUALS, AND THE STRICT COMMANDS AGAINST ANGEL WORSHIP FOUND IN REVELATION 19:10 AND 22:9 MAKE IT ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE THAT ANGELS WOULD BE PLACED SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH THE FATHER AND SON IN SUCH A ROLE.

**** SO THE MAJORITY INTERPRETATION IS THIS DESCRIPTION IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE NUMBER 7 USED REPEATEDLY IN REVELATION MAKING REFERENCE TO HIS PERFECTION AND FULLNESS AND HIS POWER.

4. AND SO THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WORKS IN THE 7 CHURCHES LISTED EARLIER IS TALKED ABOUT HERE. AND THERE ARE OTHER REASONS THAT THIS INTERPRETATION IS THE MAJORITY INTERPRETATION THAT I WILL NOT GET INTO BECAUSE OF TIME.

* NOW CONTINUING ON IN THIS TRINITARIAN GREETING THAT SHOWS THE GREATNESS OF GOD, WE NEED TO MOVE ON TO V. 5A, WHERE THE SON IS REVEALED. LOOK AT V. 5 A PLEASE.

B. READ V. 5A. NOW GOD THE SON IS GIVEN 3 TITLES HERE, THE FAITHFUL WITNESS, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD, AND THE RULER OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.

* AND FIRST OF ALL CHRIST IS DESCRIBED AS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS.

** NOW A FAITHFUL WITNESS IS ONE WHO ALWAYS SPEAKS AND REPRESENTS THE TRUTH, AND THAT CERTAINLY CHARACTERIZES THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

*** HE WAS A PERFECT WITNESS SPEAKING FOR HIS FATHER, ALWAYS TELLING THE TRUTH, BEING A VOICE FOR TRUTH IN EVERY WAY.

**** AND IN APPLICATION THAT NEEDS TO BE A CHARACTERISTIC OF OUR LIVES, ALWAYS TELLING THE TRUTH AND ALWAYS BEING A VOICE FOR GOD WHEREVER WE AR EAT AND IN WHATEVER SITUATION WE ARE IN.

1. AND THAT NEEDS TO BE A CONTINUAL PRAYER IN OUR LIVES. FATHER, MAY I BE A FAITHFUL WITNESS LIKE YOUR SON SPEAKING TRUTH, TESTIFYING OF THE TRUTH AND COMMUNICATING YOUR WORD AND BEING A VOICE FOR YOU.

* I MEAN THINK OF ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE OF BEING A VOICE FOR GOD, A SPOKESMAN FOR CHRIST, AN AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST EVERYDAY, BEING DEPENDABLE, RELIABLE, CONSISTENT.

** WELL, CHRIST WAS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS.

*** NO. 2 – THE SECOND DESCRIPTION OF CHRIST IS HE IS THE FIRSTBORN OF THE DEAD.

**** AND THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT MEAN THAT JESUS WAS CHRONOLOGICALLY THE FIRST ONE RAISED FROM THE DEAD.

2. FOR THERE WERE RESURRECTIONS BEFORE HIS IN THE O.T. AND HE HIMSELF RAISED 3 PEOPLE FROM THE DEAD THAT WE HAVE READ OF IN THE GOSPELS.

* THE WORD TRANSLATED FIRSTBORN OR FIRST BEGOTTEN IS THE GREEK WORD PRO-TOT-OK-OS DOES NOT MEAN FIRSTBORN IN TIME SEQUENCE, BUT RATHER FIRST IN PREEMINENCE OR PRIORITY, READ COLOSSIANS 1:18.

** CHRIST IS THE PREEMINENT ONE FROM THE DEAD, THE FIRST TO RISE FROM THE DEAD TO DIE NO MORE.

*** AND OF ALL WHO HAVE EVER BEEN OR EVER WILL BE RESURRECTED, HE IS THE PREMIERE ONE, THE ONE WHO HAS PRIMACY IN RANK.

**** IN PSALM 89:27 GOD DECLARES OF THE MESSIAH, “I ALSO SHALL MAKE HIM MY FIRSTBORN, THE HIGHEST OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.”

- SO FIRSTBORN HAS TO DO WITH PRIORITY, PRIMACY, PREEMINENCE, POSITION AND RANK.

3. NO. 3, THE THIRD TITLE FOR CHRIST IS THE RULER OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.

* AND THIS DESCRIPTION DEPICTS CHRIST AS THE ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGN OVER THE AFFAIRS OF THIS WORLD, TO WHICH HE HOLDS THE TITLE DEED ACCORDING TO REVELATION 5.

** AND THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE SOVEREIGN KING OF THE EARTH IS REPEATEDLY TAUGHT IN SCRIPTURE, EVEN HERE IN REVELATION AS HE IS PRESENTED AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS IN REVELATION 19:16.

*** FOR JESUS IS LORD, THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ONE WHO HAS A NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES. AND WE PRAISE GOD THAT HE IS ON THE THRONE TODAY, THE ONE WHO IS OVER ALL, ABOVE ALL AND THE ALL IN ALL AS THE PRINCE, THE RULER OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.

**** AND CERTAINLY GOD IN HIS GREATNESS AS FATHER SPIRIT AND SO IS PRESENTED AS THE ONE WHO IS THE SOURCE OF GRACE AND TRUTH.

4. WHICH LEADS US TO OUR THIRD POINT TODAY, THE GRACE OF CHRIST TO US. LOOK BACK AT V. 5 PLEASE.

III. THE GRACE, (READ V. 5)

A. NOW THE WORK OF CHRIST BY GRACE ON BEHALF OF BELIEVERS CAUSED JOHN TO BURST FORTH IN AN INSPIRED DOXOLOGY OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING.

* FIRST OF ALL PRAISING CHRIST FOR LOVING US. AND THE VERB LOVE IS THE GREEK WORD AG-AP-AH-O SPEAKING OF SUPERNATURAL LOVE THAT COMES FROM GOD, AND OF COURSE WAS MANIFESTED ON THE CROSS AND IS MANIFEST BY THE UNBREAKABLE LOVE THAT CHRIST HAS FOR HIS OWN ILLUSTRATED IN ROMANS 8:35-39 (READ THEM).

** SO NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM CHRIST’S LOVE WHICH WAS AND IS ETERNAL FOR HIS ELECT.

*** AND NO. 2 ONE OF THE GREAT EXPRESSIONS OF CHRIST’S LOVE CAME TO US WHEN HE RELEASED US FROM OUR SINS BY HIS BLOOD.

**** AND THIS IS A REFERENCE TO THE ATONEMENT PROVIDED BY CHRIST IN HIS SACRIFICIAL DEATH ON THE CROSS ON THE BELIEVER AND FUTURE BELIEVER’S BEHALF.

1. IN HIS LOVE HE GAVE HIS LIFE ON THE CROSS FOR US, AND WE ARE FORGIVEN THROUGH HIS SUBSTITUTIONARY DEATH, SHEDDING HIS BLOOD AND THROUGH SHEDDING HIS BLOOD WHICH WAS GIVING HIS LIFE, OUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN, WASHED AWAY, RELEASED, FREED US, READ EPHESIANS 1:7 AND MATTHEW 26:28.

* SO WE ARE CLEANSED FROM OUR SINS THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. AND THE WORD USED HERE TRANSLATED RELEASED IN THE NAS IS LOU-O WHICH LIT. MEANS TO BATHE, TO WASH, TO CLEANSE US.

** AND HERE IS THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL, SINNERS ARE FORGIVEN BY GOD, SET FREE FROM SIN, DEATH AND HELL BY THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS.

*** BELOVED, GOD MADE HIM OUR SUBSTITUTE, KILLING HIM FOR OUR SINS, SO THAT THE PENALTY WAS FULLY PAID FOR US.

**** GOD’S JUSTICE WAS SATISFIED AND GOD WAS ABLE THEN TO GRANT RIGHTEOUSNESS TO REPENTANT SINNERS FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED.

2. BUT GET THIS, CHRIST’S LOVE FOR US AS BELIEVERS ALSO CAUSED HIM TO MAKE US A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS TO HIS GOD AND FATHER, LOOK AT V. 6A PLEASE.

B. READ V. 6A. NOW WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WELL, AS REDEEMED ONE, BLOOD BOUGHT ONES GOING BACK TO V. 5, BELIEVERS CONSTITUTE A KINGDOM AND ARE PRIESTS BEFORE GOD.

* BELIEVERS FORM BOTH A PRIESTHOOD AND A KINGDOM. WE ARE UNDER GOD’S RULE AND WE HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO HIM AS HIS PRIESTS.

** WE DON’T NEED A HUMAN INTERMEDIARY, WE HAVE CONTINUAL ACCESS TO GOD BECAUSE WE ARE HIS SUBJECTS, WE ARE UNDER HIS RULE AND AUTHORITY, SUBJECTS OF HIS KINGDOM.

*** CHRISTIAN, WE ARE A KINGDOM – THE SPHERE OF GOD’S RULE WHICH BELIEVERS ENTER AT SALVATION.

**** COLOSSIANS 1:13 SAYS – “FOR HE RESCUED US FROM THE DOMAIN OF DARKNESS, AND TRANSFERRED US TO THE KINGDOM OF HIS BELOVED SON.”

1. NOW SINCE BELIEVERS ARE NOW TRANSFERRED TO THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST, WE ARE TO SEEK THAT KINGDOM FIRST, READ MATTHEW 6:33 (TALK ABOUT THE MATTHEW 6:33 FILTER).

* NOW AS WE SEEK GOD’S KINGDOM FIRST, WE NEED TO BE REMINDED AS HIS PRIESTS WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENTER GOD’S PRESENCE ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE. IN FACT, WE CONTINUALLY LIVE IN HIS PRESENCE AND THAT TRUTH SHOULD CHANGE OUR LIVES.

** WHAT GRACE! AND GRACE SHOULD LEAD TO GLORY, GLORIFYING OUR GREAT GOD BECAUSE OF HIS GRACE AND HIS GRACIOUSNESS TOWARD US.

*** AND GLORY, THE GLORY IS OUR LAST POINT TODAY, LOOK BACK AT V. 6 PLEASE.

IV. THE GLORY, (READ V. 6)

A. NOW JOHN CONCLUDES HIS DOXOLOGY HERE WITH THE ONLY PROPER RESPONSE IN LIGHT OF THE MAGNITUDE OF GRACE CHRIST HAS GIVEN BELIEVERS.

* AND PRAISE AND WORSHIP SHOULD ALWAYS BE OUR RESPONSE WHEN WE ARE CONFRONTED AND UNDERSTAND TRUTH.

** TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, THE APPLICATION OF TRUTH HERE, THE RESPONSE TO THE TRUTHS WE HAVE STUDIED TODAY SHOULD LEAD TO WORSHIP, GLORIFYING GOD.

*** DOCTRINE LEADS TO DOXOLOGY. AND CHRIST IS WORTHY OF ALL GLORY, HONOR AND PRAISE FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE IN LOVING US, FORGIVING US, AND MAKING US A KINGDOM AND PRIESTS TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.

**** AND THE WORD DOMINION MEANS FORCE, STRENGTH, POWER AND MIGHT.

1. AND IN ESSENCE GLORY AND POWER BELONG TO CHRIST, THEY ARE HIS RIGHT IN WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE.

* AND FOR ALL ETERNITY, GLORY AND POWER BELONG TO CHRIST AND FOR ALL ETERNITY WE WILL WORSHIP HIM FOR HE IS WORTHY.

** AND ALL GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD SAY “AMEN” TO THAT AS JOHN CLOSES THIS VERSE WITH THE WORD “AMEN” WHICH MEANS SO BE IT, TRUTH, MAY IT BE FULFILLED.

*** AND I HOPE THAT YOU CAN SAY AMEN TO THAT TODAY. AMEN!

AND AS I WRAP UP THINGS TODAY: (1) REVELATION 4:11 JUMPS OUT AT ME, (READ IT).

* AND THE WORD WORTHY IS A WORD I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT. IT LIT. MEANS HAVING WEIGHT, BEFITTING, CORRESPONDING TO.

** AND CHRIST IS WORTHY OF GLORY AS OUR CREATOR, AS OUR REDEEMER, AS OUR SAVIOR AND AS OUR GOD.

*** AND OUR GOD WHO IS THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT IS WORTHY OF ALL GLORY, FOR LOVING US, RELEASING US FROM OUR SINS, MAKING US A KINGDOM AND PRIESTS.

**** AND SINCE HE IS WORTHY OF GLORY, SHOULDN’T OUR GREATEST DESIRE AS HIS CREATURES BE TO ASCRIBE GLORY TO HIM?

(2) I MEAN OUR PASSION SURELY SHOULD BE TO ASCRIBE GLORY TO HIM AS HE HAS PRESCRIBED FOR US, MANDATED FOR US AND INSTRUCTED US HOW TO DO THAT IN HIS WORD.

* AND I WANT TO QUICKLY GIVE YOU SOME WAYS TO SCRIPTURALLY GLORIFY GOD IN APPLICATION WITHOUT DEVELOPING EACH OF THESE BECAUSE OF TIME.

** NO. 1 CONFESS SIN IMMEDIATELY, FOR IN JOSHUA 7:19 ACHAN IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW GOD IS GLORIFIED IN CONFESSION OF SIN AS WE AGREE WITH GOD ABOUT OUR DISOBEDIENCE, I JOHN 1:9.

*** NO. 2 ABUNDANCE OF SPIRITUAL FRUIT IN OUR LIVES GLORIFIES GOD, JOHN 15:8.

**** NO. 3 VERBAL PRAISE – PSALM 50:23 IN THE KJV SAYS: “WHOSO OFFERETH PRAISE GLORIFIETH ME.” SO BROTHERS AND SISTERS PRAISE THE LORD WITH YOUR LIPS AND LIFE.

(3) NO. 4 CONFIDENT PRAYER IN JESUS’ NAME IN WHAT JESUS WOULD WANT GLORIFIES GOD, READ JOHN 14:13-15 AND I JOHN 5:14.

* AND NO. 5 AND LAST OF ALL FOR TODAY, AND THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST, A CLEAR WITNESS LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE OTHERS GLORIFIES GOD, BEING A FAITHFUL WITNESS LIKE CHRIST, READ MATTHEW 5:14-16 (BE A VOICE FOR GOD).

** IN CLOSING, OUR PASSION, OUR ULTIMATE PRIORITY SHOULD BE TO GLORIFY GOD, I CORINTHIANS 10:31 SAYS: (READ IT AND PRAY).