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SERIES: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WEEK 33

TITLE: SALVATION!

TEXT: REVELATION 7:9-12

INTRODUCTION: (1) THE BIBLE IS A BOOK ALL ABOUT SALVATION.

* TO SAY IT ANOTHER WAY, ONE OF THE GREAT THEMES OF THE BIBLE IS THE SALVATION OF SINNERS FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.

** BECAUSE OF THAT, THE WORDS TO SAVE, SAVED, SAVING AND SALVATION ARE KEY WORDS IN SCRIPTURE.

*** IN FACT THE WORDS WHICH RELATE TO SALVATION IN THE GREEK N.T. ARE (AND YOU CAN SEE THEM ON THE SCREEN) SOZO (TO SAVE), SOTER (MEANING SAVIOR) AND SOTERIA (MEANING SALVATION).

(2) AND THESE GREEK WORDS ARE REFLECTED IN THE THEOLOGICAL TERM “SOTERIOLOGY” WHICH IS THE STUDY OF THE SUBJECT OF SALVATION.

* NOW THERE ARE 4 BASIC MEANINGS FOR THESE WORDS IN THE GREEK.

** FIRST, THEY MEAN TO SAVE SOMEONE BY THE DYNAMIC ACT OF SNATCHING SOMEONE FROM DANGER.

*** SECOND, IT INVOLVED KEEPING SOMEONE IN SAFETY AS THE ENVOYS OF A NATION ARE KEPT FROM DANGER.

**** THIRD, IT MEANT TO BENEFIT SOMEONE OR KEEP THEM IN GOOD HEALTH.

(3) AND FOURTH, THE PRESERVATION OF INNER BEING WAS ALSO DESCRIBED BY THIS WORD.

* NOW ALL IN ALL, THE WORD IS RELATED TO PRESERVATION, DELIVERANCE, SAFETY, TO SAVE, TO KEEP SAFE, TO RESCUE FROM DESTRUCTION OR DANGER.

** AND SPECIFICALLY AS WE TALK ABOUT THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SINNERS BEING RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION BY A SAVIOR.

*** WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DELIVERANCE FROM SIN BY THE SAVIOR. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DELIVERANCE FROM THE REALITY AND POWER OF SIN.

**** SALVATION PROCEEDS FROM THE SOVEREIGN LOVE AND GRACE OF GOD FOR SINNERS, IS BASED UPON THE ATONEMENT OR DEATH OF CHRIST AND IS REALIZED IN REPENTANT GOD-GIVEN FAITH IN CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR.

(4) EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS SINNED AGAINST A HOLY RIGHTEOUS PURE GOD, AND OUR SIN, ANY SIN IS A HEINOUS REBELLIOUS ACT AGAINST HIM, AN ACT OF COSMIC TREASON AS R. C. SPROUL SAID.

* NOW OUR SIN OFFENDS GOD, SEPARATES US FROM GOD AND PUTS US IN A POSITION WHERE WE NEED FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS THROUGH THE ONLY SAVIOR JESUS.

** SO WE ALL NEED RESCUED, SAVED AND DELIVERED.

*** AND THE GOOD NEWS IS, THERE IS A SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND IF WE TURN FROM OUR SIN IN REPENTANCE AND TURN TO HIM FOR SALVATION, HE WILL RESCUE US FROM GOD’S WRATH AND ETERNAL JUDGMENT. WE CAN BE FORGIVEN THROUGH FAITH ALONE, BY GRACE ALONE, BECAUSE OF CHRIST ALONE.

**** NOW THE TRUTH OF SALVATION IS THE JOY AND PEACE AND DELIGHT OF THOSE WHO ARE SAVED, AND THE ONLY HOPE FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL IN THEIR SINS.

(5) BECAUSE OF THAT, I WANT TO TAKE YOU ON A QUICK JOURNEY THROUGH THE N.T. BY USING THE 3 N.T. WORDS IN THE GREEK THAT I STARTED WITH TODAY.

* AND FIRST OF ALL THE WORD SOZO MEANING TO SAVE.

** READ AND DEVELOP MATTHEW 1:21, ROMANS 5:9, ROMANS 10:9&13, I CORINTHIANS 1:18, I CORINTHIANS 9:22, I CORINTHIANS 15:2, EPHESIANS 2:5, EPHESIANS 2:8,

I TIMOTHY 1:15 AND HEBREWS 7:25.

*** NOW THOSE ARE SOME USES OF SOZO MEANING TO SAVE.

**** NEXT WE MOVE ON TO THE WORD SOTER OR SAVIOR.

(6) READ AND DEVELOP LUKE 2:11, PHILIPPIANS 3:20, I TIMOTHY 4:10, TITUS 2:10, TITUS 2:13, TITUS 3:6 AND II PETER 3:18.

* NOW THOSE ARE SOME USES OF THE WORD SOTER OR SAVIOR.

** AND MOVING ON LASTLY I WANT TO LOOK AT THE WORD SOTERIA MEANING SALVATION.

*** AND HERE ARE SOME USES OF THIS WORD. READ AND DEVELOP ACTS 4:12, ROMANS 10:10, ROMANS 13:11, II CORINTHIANS 6:2, II CORINTHIANS 7:10, EPHESIANS 1:13, I THESSALONIANS 5:9, II TIMOTHY 3:15, HEBREWS 2:3, HEBREWS 9:28 AND I PETER 1:5.

**** NOW THESE ARE SOME USES OF THE GREEK WORD SOTERIA OR SALVATION.

(7) NOW PUTTING ALL THOSE VERSES TOGETHER WE GET A QUICK OVERVIEW, A 30,000 FOOT FLYOVER OF THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION.

* AND IF THERE IS AN AREA THAT WE NEED CLARITY OF COMMUNICATION TODAY, IT IS THAT AREA, THAT SUBJECT.

** WE MUST UNDERSTAND IT AND UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH TO COMMUNICATE CLEARLY TO THOSE WHO NEED IT, THOSE WHO NEED A SAVIOR, THOSE WHO NEED SALVATION, THOSE WHO NEED TO BE SAVED.

*** AND THE TRUTH IS SO RICH, IT SHOULD BRING US GREAT JOY AND MOTIVATION TO KEEP ON KEEPING ON AND SERVE OUR SAVIOR WHO PURCHASED OUR SALVATION AND SAVED US FROM OUR SIN.

**** NOW BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE IS A CLEAR CONNECTION OF THE SUBJECT TO OUR TEXT TODAY. (I’VE NOT FALLEN OFF THE DEEP END YET).

(8) SALVATION IS A THEME OF REVELATION 7:9-17.

* FOR REVELATION 7:9-17 DESCRIBES THE VAST MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE FROM ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WHO WILL BE SAVED DURING THE FUTURE TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION ON THE EARTH.

** AND THESE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE SAVED ARE SEEN BY JOHN IN A VISION IN HEAVEN PRAISING AND CRYING OUT TO GOD AND THE LAMB THE LORD JESUS.

*** “SALVATION TO OUR GOD, WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, AND TO THE LAMB.” (AND HERE THE GREEK WORD SOTERIA IS USED.)

**** AND IN THE MIDST OF GOD POURING OUT HIS WRATH ON THE EARTH IN REVELATION 6 AND CONTINUING IN REVELATION, BETWEEN THE 6TH AND SEVENTH SEALS WE HAVE A HOLY PAUSE, A PARENTHESIS, AN INTERLUDE.

(9) AND IN THE MIDST OF GOD’S WRATH HE MANIFESTS MERCY IN REVELATION, THE CALM BETWEEN THE STORMS.

* AND GOD SEALED 144,000 JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL WHICH APPEARS TO BE MISSIONARIES, EVANGELISTS IN VV. 1-8.

** AND STARTING IN V.9, WHAT FOLLOWS THIS SEALING, IS THE SALVATION OF A MULTITUDE OF GENTILES WHICH NO ONE COULD NUMBER.

*** SALVATION IS A THEME AND IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES.

**** BECAUSE OF THAT, I’VE TITLE THE MESSAGE TODAY, SALVATION! – EXCLAMATION POINT!

(10) AND UNDER THAT GREAT THEME AND RESPONSE TO IT, WE’LL LOOK AT 4 POINTS.

* NO. 1 THE AGGREGATION OF PEOPLE ASSEMBLED IN HEAVEN THAT HAVE BEEN SAVED OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION, V. 9; NO. 2 THE ACTION, THE CRY OF THESE SAVED INDIVIDUALS, V. 10; NO. 3 THE ANGELS AND THEIR RESPONSE, V. 11; AND NO. 4 THE ADORATION BY THE ANGELS IN A DOXOLOGY, V. 12.

** AND WITHOUT ANY MORE INTRODUCTION WHICH IS A BIG PORTION OF THE MESSAGE TODAY, LOOK AT V. 9 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR FIRST POINT, THE AGGREGATION.

I. THE AGGREGATION, (READ V. 9)

A. NOW AS I COMMUNICATED TO YOU LAST WEEK, THE USE OF THE PHRASE “AFTER THESE THINGS” OR “AFTER THIS” INTRODUCES TO US ANOTHER VISION THAT JOHN THE BELOVED, THE HUMAN AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK, IS HAVING.

* AND IN V. 9 WE HAVE THE START OF JOHN’S 4TH VISION IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

** NOW AS THIS 4TH VISION STARTS JOHN LOOKS AND SEES A MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE BEYOND HUMAN COMPUTATION.

*** HE SEES A VAST MULTITUDE BEYOND COUNTING, INNUMERABLE, A GREAT MULTITUDE WHICH NO ONE COULD COUNT.

**** AND THIS HUGE THRONG OF PEOPLE IS DIVERSE, A GROUP OF GENTILES WITH 4 DESCRIPTIONS GIVEN ABOUT THEM.

1. NO. 1 “FROM EVERY NATION” MEANING FROM EVERY RACE, IN THE O.T., FOREIGN NATIONS, BEYOND THE JEWS IN REFERENCE TO GENTILES, DESCRIBING PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE EARTH.

* NO. 2 “ALL TRIBES” OR “KINDREDS” WHICH SHOWS THEIR DIFFERENT RACIAL BACKGROUND.

** NO. 3 THE WORD “PEOPLES” WHICH INDICATES THE DIFFERENT CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS.

*** AND NO. 4 THE WORD “TONGUES” WHICH SHOWS THE VARIETY OF LANGUAGES THEY SPOKE.

**** AND THIS FOUR-FOLD DESCRIPTION STRESSES UNIVERSALITY, MULTI-ETHNIC, MULTI-CULTURAL, AND MULTI-LINGUISTIC, PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE IN CONTRAST MOST LIKELY TO THE JEWS, GENTILES.

2. PEOPLE FROM EVERY CULTURE, DESCENT, RACE AND LANGUAGE. A MASS OF HUMANITY CROSSING ALL BARRIERS AND LINES OF DIVISION.

* NOW NOTICE, THIS HUGE GROUP FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IS SEEN BY JOHN STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE – GOD’S THRONE, AND BEFORE THE LAMB, THE LORD JESUS.

** THE THRONE OF GOD BECOMES THE CENTER OF ATTENTION AGAIN AS THIS HUGE GROUP IS STANDING AROUND IT, VICTORIOUS.

*** AND I SAY VICTORIOUS, FOR NOTICE THEIR ATTIRE AND WHAT THEY ARE HOLDING IN THEIR HANDS.

**** THIS HUGE GROUP IS CLOTHED IN WHITE ROBES.

3. AND THE WORD WHITE IS THE GREEK WORD LY00-KOS WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN.

* AND AS YOU CAN SEE THIS WORD LIT. MEANS LIGHT, BRILLIANT WHITE, DAZZLING WHITE, SHINING WHITE.

** AND WE ARE TOLD IN ANCIENT TIMES, SUCH CLOTHES WERE WORN FOR FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS.

*** AND THE ROBES HERE DEPICT A LONG, FULL-LENGTH ROBE WORN BY KINGS, PRIESTS AND PERSONS OF RANK, THE SAME ONES WORN BY THE MARTYRS UNDER THE 5TH SEAL IN REVELATION 6:9-11.

**** AND THESE WHITE ROBES MOST LIKELY SYMBOLIZE RIGHTEOUSNESS OBTAINED, IMPUTED THROUGH CHRIST AND ALSO VICTORY THROUGH CHRIST.

4. FOR NOTICE WHAT THEY HAVE IN THEIR HANDS, PALM BRANCHES.

* AND THE WAVING OF PALM BRANCHES IN EASTERN LANDS SYMBOLIZED VICTORY AND JOY, ILLUSTRATED AT THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF CHRIST IN JERUSALEM IN JOHN 12:13, HOLDING THEM IN THEIR HANDS AND SHOUTING OUT “HOSANNA! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, EVEN THE KING OF ISRAEL.”

** AND VICTORY AND JOY IS ALSO ILLUSTRATED IN THE O.T. IN LEVITICUS 23:40 IN REFERENCE TO THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

*** WHERE IT SAYS: “NOW ON THE FIRST DAY YOU SHALL TAKE FOR YOURSELVES THE FOLIAGE OF BEAUTIFUL TREES, PALM BRANCHES AND BOUGHS OF LEAFY TREES AND WILLOWS OF THE BROOK, AND YOU SHALL REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.”

**** SO JOY AND VICTORY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PALM BRANCHES, AND SPECIFICALLY THE PALM BRANCHES IN THE HANDS OF THESE REDEEMED BELIEVERS ARE A FITTING CELEBRATION OF THEIR VICTORY IN CHRIST, THEIR VICTORY OF SALVATION.

5. SO THIS AGGREGATION OF ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING THEIR SALVATION BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, AND THIS TRUTH IS REINFORCED BY THEIR ACTION IN V. 10, OUR 2’D POINT TODAY, THE ACTION. LOOK AT V. 10 PLEASE.

II. THE ACTION, (READ V. 10)

A. NOW THE ACTION OF THESE PEOPLE SAVED DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION ACCORDING TO V. 14 WHICH ARE PROBABLY MARTYRS, IS CRYING OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE TO GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB.

* AND THE VERB CRY, CRIED, OR CRYING OUT, DEPENDING ON WHICH TRANSLATION YOU HAVE IS IN THE PRESENT TENSE AND THE ACTIVE VOICE MEANING, THEY KEEP ON CRYING OUT, IT IS REPEATED, CONTINUED IN THAT SENSE, THEY DON’T STOP.

** AND THEY DO THIS WITH A LOUD VOICE, IT WOULD BE VERY LOUD AS THIS GREAT MULTITUDE IN UNISON ARE SCREAMING OUT.

*** IT’S ELECTRIC IN HEAVEN, THE ROAR OF THE MULTITUDE IS INCREDIBLE, FOR THEY ARE CELEBRATING A VICTORY, THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION.

**** FOR WHAT ARE THEY SHOUTING OUT IN PRAISE? “SALVATION TO OUR GOD, AND TO THE LAMB.”

1. AND BELOVED, SALVATION, SOTERIA IS THE THEME OF THEIR RESPONSE OF WORSHIP.

* AND THIS SALVATION IS NOT THEIR OWN ACHIEVEMENT BUT THAT OF GOD AND THE LAMB.

** SO THERE IS A HEAVENLY CELEBRATION OVER SO GREAT A SALVATION THAT GOD AND THE LAMB HAVE WROUGHT.

*** THE VICTORY OF THEIR DELIVERANCE, THEIR REDEMPTION BY POWER LEADS THEM TO CRY OUT WITH VICTORY AND WORSHIP.

**** I MEAN CAN YOU IMAGINE THE EXPLOSION OF WORSHIP TO HAVE ARRIVED IN HEAVEN FROM THE VICTORY OF GOD’S SO GREAT SALVATION AND THEIR DELIVERANCE ALSO FROM THE GREAT TRIBULATION?

2. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE BURSTING FORTH, THE SPONTANEOUS ACTION OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP, CRYING OUT, “SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD AND THE LAMB, AND THAT CONTINUING AS A SONIC BOOM IN HEAVEN?

* WOW! THIS IS A BIG TIME ACTION BY VICTORIOUS, GRATEFUL SAVED GENTILES WHO KNOW THEY ARE WORTHY OF HELL BUT ARE IN HEAVEN DELIVERED FROM THEIR SINS AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION.

** NOW THIS ACTION MOVES THE ANGELS TO RESPOND IN WORSHIP, THEY GET INVOLVED IN WORSHIP AS THEY WATCH THE ACTION OF THESE REDEEMED ONES.

*** LOOK AT V. 11 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR THIRD POINT TODAY, THE ANGELS.

III. THE ANGELS, (READ V. 11)

A. NOW ALL THE ANGELS AT THIS POINT OF TIME IN JOHN’S VISION IN HEAVEN ARE STANDING AROUND THE THRONE AND AROUND THE ELDERS AND THE 4 LIVING CREATURES.

* NOW THE 24 ELDERS CAN BE VIEWED AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RAPTURED CHURCH WHICH I COMMUNICATED IN REVELATION 4.

** AND THE 4 LIVING CREATURES CAN BE VIEWED AS CHERUBIM OR SERAPHIM OR AS A SPECIAL EXALTED CLASS OR ORDER OF ANGELIC BEINGS.

*** AND WHOMEVER THEY ARE, THE 24 ELDERS AND THE 4 LIVING CREATURES ARE AROUND THE THRONE NO DOUBT CONTINUALLY WORSHIPING OUR GREAT GOD.

*** BUT THE EMPHASIS AND FOCUS AND SPOTLIGHT IS ON THE ANGELS HERE IN V. 11, THEY ARE THE “THEY” IN V. 11, SPECIFICALLY THE ANGELS. THIS WORSHIP IS PURELY ANGELIC.

1. AND WHAT THEY DO IS FALL ON THEIR FACES BEFORE THE THRONE AND WORSHIPPED GOD. WHAT AN APPROPRIATE POSTURE BEFORE THE LORD GOD.

* THEY PROSTATE THEMSELVES IN HUMBLE ADORATION BEFORE THE UNEQUALED GLORY AND MAJESTY OF GOD.

** AND THEIR WORSHIP IS A RESPONSE TO WHAT THEY SEE AND HEAR FROM THE MULTITUDE. AND THEY HEAR THEM SHOUT, THE CRYING OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, WITH A SUBJECT THEY CANNOT IDENTIFY WITH, SALVATION, FOR THEY HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED AS ANGELS, THEY ARE HOLY IN THEIR CREATION BY GOD.

*** BUT THEY SEE AND HEAR THE HEARTS OF REDEEMED PEOPLE AND THEY GET A GLIMPSE OF GOD AS SAVIOR AND A GOD OF GRACE AND MERCY AND THEY RESPOND TO THE TRUTH OF SALVATION AND TO THE REDEEMED IN THEIR WORSHIP.

**** AND THEY ARE MOVED TO BOW DOWN IN WORSHIP FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS WORTHY, WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND PRAISE, AND THE ACCLAMATION OF ADORATION.

2. AND NOTICE THEIR ACCLAMATION OF ADORATION IN V. 12, OUR LAST POINT TODAY, THE ADORATION. LOOK AT V. 12 PLEASE.

IV. THE ADORATION, (READ V. 12)

A. NOW THESE ANGELS VERBALIZE THEIR ADORATION AND IN THEIR ACCLAMATION OF ADORATION THEY BEGIN AND END WITH THE WORD AMEN.

* THEY RESPOND TO BEGIN WITH AN AMEN AND ENDS WITH AN AFFIRMATION OF AMEN, THE WORD AMEN MEANING TRULY, TRUTH, OF A TRUTH, SO BE IT, VERILY, A FAITHFUL STATEMENT, SO LET IT BE.

** AND THE FIRST AMEN IS THEIR HOLY CONFIRMATION OF THE TRIBUTE OF THE SAVED MULTITUDE TO THE ALMIGHTY BECAUSE OF THEIR VICTORY.

*** AND THE FINAL AMEN VALIDATES OR CONFIRMS THE TRUTHFULNESS OF WHAT THEY’VE JUST SAID, THEIR TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR DOXOLOGY, THEIR CHARACTERIZATIONS OF GOD.

**** NOW IN BETWEEN THE AMENS, SEVEN NOTES OF PRAISE ARE SOUNDED, A MOUNTING CRESCENDO OF PRAISE.

1. AND NOTE HERE THAT THESE SEVEN NOTES OF PRAISE REPEAT THE SEVEN NOTES OF PRAISE IN REVELATION 5:12 BY THE MULTITUDES IN HEAVEN WITH ONE EXCEPTION, IT REPLACES THE WORD RICHES WITH THANKSGIVING AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE CHART ON THE SCREEN, PUT TOGETHER BY KENDALL EASLEY IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION.

* NOW AGAIN ONLY ONE WORD OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PASSAGES, THE WORD RICHES IS USED IN 5:12 BUT IS REPLACED BY THANKSGIVING IN REVELATION 7:12.

** AND BEFORE I QUICKLY RUN THROUGH THIS LIST, UNDERSTAND IN THE GREEK THAT EACH NOTE OF PRAISE IS PRECEDED BY THE DEFINITE ARTICLE “THE”, THUS EMPHASIZING THAT GOD IS DESERVING OF ALL THE BLESSING AND GLORY THAT EXISTS.

*** SO IT WOULD READ, THE BLESSING, THE GLORY, THE WISDOM, THE THANKSGIVING, THE HONOR, THE POWER AND THE MIGHT, SUGGESTING THAT QUALITY OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE IS IMPLIED BY THE DEFINITE ARTICLES.

**** THUS, ATTRIBUTED TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE IS THE NO. 1 THE BLESSING, LITERALLY PRAISE, TO BE LAUDED, AN INVOCATION OF BLESSING.

2. NO. 2 THE GLORY MEANING THE HONOR DESERVED BY WHAT GOD HAS DONE. GOD IS VIEWED AS ONE WORTHY OF A HIGH OPINION, OF GLORY THAT BELONGS TO HIM.

* NO. 3 THE WISDOM MAKING REFERENCE TO THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD EXHIBITED IN THE PLAN OF SALVATION HERE IN REVELATION 7.

** NO. 4 THE THANKSGIVING, THE GRATITUDE THAT GOD IS WORTHY OF IN ALL THAT HE HAS DONE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONTEXT FOR SAVING PEOPLE.

*** NO. 5 THE HONOR, THE VALUE OR ESTEEM OF GOD IN RECOGNITION OF HIS PROVISION OF SALVATION. HONOR OR ESTEEM BELONGS TO HIM.

**** NO. 6 THE POWER, PRAISING GOD FOR HIS STRENGTH, HIS OMNIPOTENCE, HIS ABILITY TO SAVE LOST PEOPLE, LIKE THESE OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION.

3. AND NO. 7 MIGHT OR STRENGTH DEPENDING ON WHICH TRANSLATION YOU HAVE, WHICH REFERS TO A QUALITY ONE POSSESSES, THE ABILITY TO EXERT FORCE OR MIGHT.

* AND BELOVED HEAVEN RINGS WITH THESE SEVEN NOTES OF PRAISE THAT ARE INHERENT IN GOD IN WHO HE IS, THEY BELONG TO HIM, AND IT IS APPROPRIATE AND RIGHT TO EXALT HIM FOR THESE ATTRIBUTES AND CHARACTERISTICS FOR HOW LONG?

** “BE TO OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER.” AMEN!

*** THIS SEVENFOLD DOXOLOGY OF PRAISE IS NOT TEMPORARY OR MOMENTARY, BUT WILL CONTINUE ETERNALLY.

**** FOR WHAT IS DESCRIBED HERE IS ADORATION THAT WILL NEVER CEASE THROUGH ALL OF ENDLESS ETERNITY.

IN WRAP UP: (1) BOTTOM LINE, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY GOD IS WORTHY OF THIS KIND OF PRAISE FOREVER AND EVER IS, “SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD!”

* AND I CONCLUDE WHERE I STARTED TODAY: THE BIBLE IS A BOOK ALL ABOUT SALVATION!

** FROM THE FALL TO THE TRIBULATION, OUR GOD IS A GOD WHO SAVES HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS, HE IS SAVIOR GOD!

*** AND CHRISTIAN, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROCLAIM THAT AND DECLARE THAT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS A CHURCH AND BY OUR OPPORTUNITY AND OPEN DOORS THAT GOD SETS BEFORE US.

**** PSALM 96:3 SAYS: (READ IT).

2. AND AS FOLLOWERS WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE COMMUNICATE THE CLARITY OF THE GOSPEL, THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S SALVATION, GOD IS ALWAYS HONORED AND GLORIFIED, EVEN WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT SAVED.

* FOR HE IS LIFTED UP AS SAVIOR GOD WHO WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. GOD WILL EFFECTUALLY SAVE HIS OWN.

** BUT IT IS OUR JOB, OUR PRIVILEGE, OUR COMMAND, AND OUR JOY TO LIFT UP GOD AS A SAVIOR GOD WHO SAVES, WHO IS A GOD OF SALVATION.

*** AND OUR MANDATE AS A CHURCH IS TO LOCALLY, REGIONALLY AND GLOBALLY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE, TO BE WITNESSES, TO MAKE DISCIPLES, READ MATTHEW 28:19, MARK 16:15, ACTS 1:8.

**** AND BELOVED MAY WE BE PASSIONATE OVER SO GREAT A SALVATION, TO BE WITNESSES OF IT AND TO IT.

3. AND TO DO THAT WE PROCLAIM, WE DECLARE JESUS! FOR WHAT DOES THE WORD JESUS MEAN?

* JESHUA, SAVIOR! JEHOVAH SHALL SAVE!

** I CLOSE WITH MATTHEW 1:21 AND LUKE 2:11 (READ THEM).

*** BROTHERS AND SISTERS, MAY WE BE FAITHFUL IN PROCLAIMING SALVATION THROUGH JESUS.