Beholding the Lamb: Transformation Through Surrender

Who you think he is who you perceive him to be and that's the question tonight is whom do you perceive the Lord to be there's some things he writes in the scriptures that are meant to arrest us and to totally capture our hearts for absolute ever but your concept and my concept of God even if you've met him what you supply from the scriptures and what you put together what the Holy Spirit shows you that is the most important thing about you it affects everything you do and it means whether or not you and I will really worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. [00:02:55]

One of my worst fears is to get in some side pool with some people that have chasing their own ideas whether it be in a denomination or whether it be it could happen anywhere and we end up making God after our image and he becomes an idol but it's not him you worship of God but of your own design he says to people you worship not me but you worship another Jesus so it's important that we see tonight I think at the beginning who he really is and and and have a true concept and knowledge a great dread in every heart in this room should be that we would invent something for our own convenience or someone undealt with selfishness or pride or self-image problem that we use God to meet our own needs rather than really let him show us who he is. [00:03:31]

You see God gives us some truths in the scriptures that open up to us from his Spirit to us a new understanding of his character this is life eternal that we might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you've sent so many people are looking back sentimentally at Calvary and they should look back at this and be moved by what he did yes the Lamb of God suffered he you read about it and we and we see by the Word of God what he did and our hearts are melted so we do our best now to do our best living for him instead of instead of seeing beyond letting the scriptures open up see look that's just part of the story then when he was received up and he disappeared into that cloud what went on on the other side of that cloud was everything and this is the great message of the book of Acts it wasn't just walking on water or multiplying bread or sentimental things it was that Jesus Christ is Lord he's risen from the dead and he's not just a faceless God he has a character in heart and he wants you to worship Him he's on conquest seeking to save and seeking to find worshipers in spirit and truth. [00:09:09]

The Lamb of God is typify but see God takes it further because that would have been enough to to tell us that God made coats coverings for nakedness through sin but God takes it further because later in the book of Genesis you see the Lamb of God prophesied when after centuries go by and God speaks to Abraham after he had Isaac and after he had excuse me two sons same thing two sons and God says in genesis 22:2 agree hem at the end toward the end of his life he said take now your son your your only son the only one god recognized at that moment was the what was Isaac take your only son Isaac to a mountain that I will show you and there you offer him up for a burnt offering and you know if you know your Israeli geography you will know that Mount Moriah where he took him is right in the city of Jerusalem today and it's the place that we would call Jehovah Jireh which God will from in the Mount of the Lord it will be provided and since so there they went to Mount Moriah and in this chapter 22 it's the first time love has ever mentioned in the Bible as you know that it's the first time worship has ever mentioned in the Bible did you know that and first mentions show what God's trying to get across is the whole meaning of the word as I said take your son whom you love your only son and it's shown the giving of an only Son as a sacrifice and I and my son are going yonder to worship Abraham says to show that worship is not just me raising my hands and feeling goosebumps when I sing but it's real giving back to God that which is precious most precious to me that he's given to me and I give it back all that I am all that I ever hoped to be I give it all to thee that's what worship consists of. [00:19:56]

You see in the book of Exodus God expands it you see it's called progressive revelation of the scripture God gives us see Genesis is called the seed plot it grows and he a picture there as in Exodus this this is to Passover they've been in Egypt all these years and God says you believe in false God so he comes in every plague is an attacked on the false gods of Egypt and that day and they don't listen and so God says well I'm gonna get their attention so he says to to Abram he says to Moses take a lamb every household take a lamb your household won't be too small but if if your house tells too small join the houses together because this lamb that God provides is enough you take a lamb on the tenth day of this this month is the seventh month but it's going to be such a special time you're gonna begin your calendar all of this is going to be your new year that's when Passover text begins they're here everything all things become new you take this lamb into your house and for three days I want you to examine this lamb make sure it doesn't have any wounds blemish or spot you take this in nobody loves the Lambs more little kids here's your firstborn son six years old loves this lamb after three days after four days the fourteenth band evening here's what you do you take this lamb outside your front door the father puts his knees around the head of that lamb and takes a knife and pulls it across the throne of that lamb and the blood spurts and what they call as a basis it's a salt they're in the in the it's a eat it's a Gyptian Hebrew word it's a splash it on the top of that door and on the two sides and when you look at it from God's perspective it's the door that's a perfect cross blood at the top where the crown of thorns were but on the side and blood spilled and poured out at the foot and God said this night I'm coming through on this evening and when I see the blood when I see the blood I will protect you against all comers I will pass over it which means to set a guard over not just to go by and don't look means I will protect you against all comers so you see it shows for the family first it's Cain and Abel for the individual ok Abel then it's Abraham of a family then now it's a whole nation family in the book of Exodus here's the family that blood covers from the death stroke when it comes and it has to be but you see it's not enough just to take the land it's the same day that Jesus entered in Jerusalem is the tenth day of that same month when he entered in on four legs to the sheep gate in Jerusalem and for three days they examined him and never a man spake like this and the fourteenth day in the evening he died his Bloods pooling at the bottom of the cross and for those who have asked to see they can see this is the Lamb of God you see but it's not enough just to see the blood shed it has to be applied you have to come with us with a heart that's been as sympathetic towards what God's saying to you and take that bitter herbs repentance and apply it to the doorpost of your heart today this doesn't mean much to people but in the early centuries it meant I'm putting the blood over the doorway of life out of the heart come issues of life that's what it used to me doesn't mean that now but it used to be that blood over the heart the blood of the lamb the blood applied it has to be. [00:23:18]

You see the point about Isaiah making this is the Lamb of God is going to be a person he's typifies he's prophesied his blood will have to be applied this blood that this lamb he's got perfect and Isaiah says it's gonna be a man this man's gonna be the Messiah and on him is going to be laid all the iniquity of us all in case you wonder that it wasn't Jesus that that's what the Ethiopian was reading in Acts chapter 8 when he's riding on his chariot and he's reading this very passage and fella pairs of reasons do you understand what you're reading how can I accept somebody guide me and Philip joined himself and he began to preach to him it's all about Jesus in case you wondered it's all about Jesus so when you come to Isaac to John chapter 1 verse 29 behold the lamb of God this is the one that's been casting the shadow this is the one he will completely remove the barrel ways sins he's standing alone you but you don't recognize him as he is you've got your own ideas about when God comes what it'll be like but he comes as a lamb first of all as he reveals himself but then you go further and say in Peter when it says in first Peter chapter 1 that for as much as you know you weren't redeemed from your vain way of life you're you're sick by by from your sin by your empty way of life but you were redeemed with the blood of the lamb as of a lamb but Christ without as of a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world just for you but was revealed at these last times and to you who believe he'll be more than you ever thought that's what Peter's saying so you learn it's clarified you see Peter not only looks forward to the future that God takes him to glory and sets him down but he looks back and saying this is enough to cover everything a forward and a backward look he talks about this lamb will be raised from the dead so when you get to that chapter that's the other chapter that we're looking at in this in this night chapter 5 of Revelation you can turn there chapter 4 and 5 you see the Lamb of God magnified magnified by all the hosts of heaven and what a occupation is heaven involved in right now if you what are they singing what do they say they're singing recorded in the book of Revelation about the blood of the Lamb they're singing the song of Moses translated and brought into eternity about the Lamb that brought him out of Egypt but brought us out of this world's bondage they're glorifying the Lamb of God this is God's choice this is not just chance I am the Lamb of God he's saying Jesus is saying and by all the heavenly hosts he's magnified the center of worship in heaven but then you go further by all of history and all of all of time he goes into Revelation chapter 21 and 22 and you see he's absolutely glorified by the father the Lambs face is going to be the light and the new city of Jerusalem when it's made and there's where the bride of the Lamb the goal has been reached there's no where tears curse sin and there's a new Jerusalem and you see his authority and his power with the father on the throne forever and ever and we see his face is that prayed earlier you know if it really saw then we'd be on our chair swinging our coats about her hidden we would be fired up and they would fall on our face with the recollection of what it really means we would be absolutely blown away you see revelation also says this is the Lamb whose blood was shed fat before the foundation of the world he has a book and he has a will and it's known it's not an emergency rescue plan sin was anticipated and provided for before it ever happened God knew all about my weakness before he ever messed with me the first time before when I came to him it's not like well you better not mess up no he knew the worst about you what you don't even know about yourself he knows our pride he knows our fears he knows everything and he's not intimidated because you see in the book of Genesis you see the scope of the blood all for one person it's able God sheds his blood for one person in this picture that we set forth it's able for the individual but in Exodus it's blood for the family in Leviticus it's blood for the nation and then you see and Isaiah 52 when he says with his blood I mean his face was marred more than any man his body was marred and it says and he was sprinkle many nations with his blood you so you see it's not just one nation it's many nations and so it's not just many nations John one we just read said just for the whole world and then Peter says it's for all of history and revelation says it's for all the universe Colossians says he'll cleanse the heavens with his blood the effect of the fall and so you see in Revelation 21 and 2 it's for all eternity so what makes you so worried about your sin do you think he can't handle it he can handle it and so you see he came you see he wants us to see it behold the lamb of God at his birth he's born where lambs are born in a stable he was a passover lamb he was born if you go to the place just outside Bethlehem you'll see that that place where they say birth lambs there was a priestly place where they birthed lambs and that's why the Shepherd's knew where to look within the precinct of Jerusalem he was the Lamb born to die and they came him boy at his birth in the stable shepherds worshiped him first of all and at his baptism he's introduced as the Lamb of God behold the lamb at Beth abra of all places of all the place at his triumphant entry he comes in on the very day that all the lambs come in for that final Passover and he comes in on four legs four legs and they cried out Hosanna which means save us save us you'll see it in the book of Revelation Hosanna blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord save us O God and before his accusers he's there as a sheep led to the slaughter you see him satisfying that Scripture and he's you see there were twelve hundred and legal sacrifices every year for over 1,900 years plus the hundreds of thousands that Solomon and everybody individuals offered and all of those oceans of blood all of those oceans blood are not worth one drop of his blood one drop in corruptible blood precious blood holy blood precious blood of Jesus the Lamb of God but you see all of those things in the Old Testament all pointed to him this is why when the disciples saw it about the Spirit of God they were turned into soldiers they were still fallible they still had things they had going on but I'm telling you what and nothing else mattered but to honor and glorify the Lamb of God they didn't preach about walking on water they didn't preach about multiplied bread they preached about the resurrected Lord Jesus on the throne whom they knew and who was Lord the word Savior is only in the New Testament 24 times eight of those times it's talking about the father being Savior all but one of them is talking about his relationship to a group of people he's our Savior only once is it in the singular and that's Mary and she says my spirit rejoices in God my Savior who can say that except a sinner who saved by grace the word Lord is used over 600 times and every time we're told to come to him or worship it it is as Lord as you have never received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him many will say to me in that day Lord Lord but they won't enter heaven because you see they didn't do the will of the Father which is that in all things he would be Lord and have preeminence so for the final part of what we're doing tonight I want to take you at last finally all the oceans of crimson come to the book of Revelation now in the book of Revelation and you get a breath here somebody says do you breathe that I said what I forget to you had breath I'm sorry up there stop it get a little breath here you see in the book of Revelation there are three big key words you go through you count them get your concordance out do it study the Word of God search the scriptures and see if I'm telling you the truth tonight you see it's the book about worship 28 times in the book of Revelation the word worship is in fact at the end it says blessed are those who keep the sayings of this book worship God the last chapter it's what he's after real worship for who he is and in His purposes to be part of them like Abraham was and being part of that whole big picture so it's the book about worship because it's 24 times more than all the rest of you Testament put together it's in Revelation put right there but the second big word and bigger than worship is the word lamb it's the word well in the rest of the New Testament there's a word called our Neos panocha Emnes excuse me it's the word for lamb and it's the one image in John behold the honest of God it's a tender lamb and it's one that's used primarily for sacrifice but you see John who wrote John's Gospel also in the book of Revelation has a unique word for the Lamb of God it is guess what it is our me us now that then me much do you except that's in the diminutive which means it's the smallest most gentle weakest lamb of all tender helpless this is the our newest of god this is the honest the one who the great day of the wrath of the lamb has come Arni us you see the righteousness of God backing this lamb you see but see that's the second word the third word is the word throne and it's used 46 times throne so you see put those together and it's worship the lamb on the throne the other word that she is more than the rest of the New Testament put together is wrath because that's the alternative and that's what John sees you see him in that first chapter he's paid the price man we heard talked yesterday about him been dropped in a pot of oil and it hadn't killed him and the Romans feared him more dead than alive so they put him on Patmos and while he was on Patmos he was praying like any good believer would do in the Lord's Danny hears this noise behind him and he turns around and he sees the high priest of the throne sixty years after the resurrection Jesus is there and he sees him with his face shining like the noonday Sun hair white like the biggest Coons cloud like clouds and and he spoke with the sound of many waters and John who put his ear on Jesus's chest at the Last Supper and said I'm the disciple whom Jesus loved when he saw Jesus you know what he did he ran up and slapped him on the back with his living Bible and said good to see you my bro is that what he did of course not you know I'm just messing with you he fell to his feet everything drained out of him as a dead man fear not I am he that liveth I was dead but now I'm alive forevermore and he then gives him a word about what's really on his heart for today the seven churches which he holds in his right hand you look at the word at the right hand of God and you see the word sit down sit down in glory see it from Psalm 110 going all the way through how he sat down expecting until his enemies be made his footstool but how will it be made by you and me his body we put all right we recognize what happened in Genesis 3 and we put our feet on the neck of the devil like Joshua did those kings famine and we we dare to stand with him so we see the Lord Jesus in this for in the second and third chapter giving a word to the seven churches and you see him seven times he says let him who has an ear to hear hear what the Spirit of God is saying to the churches and he's saying that today - did you know that let the church that has an ear to hear to listen to hear to heed take heed to thyself take heed what you hear take heed how you hear he said that at the Gospels but let the one who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit of God is saying to the churches and I hope you're hearing what he's saying to the churches you know so God says come up here I'm going to show you what will be Hereafter but before he takes him into those awesome chapter 6 through the end of the book until you get to the final consummation with when Babylon is judged you see thus seven seals in the seven bowls and the seven thunders don't even know about them but you see God giving a revelation of the final consummation of the things on the earth and can you hear can you hear Gabriel licking his lips right now it's like it's getting ready that start really come into me okay to being any day I just feel like these things are at the doors lift up your head your Redemption draws nigh before the undoing revelation of chapter 6 through the end God takes him up in chapter 4 and 5 of Revelation by the way it's not the Book of Revelations I'm gonna look in the Book of Revelations if they said that you know they had read it it's the revelation singular and you know what the revelations off it's what we're gonna look at right now it's what you see in the first chapter it's who he is and he shows who he is it's not what he's gonna do only it's who he is because you see that's what he shows him before he gives him the plan for redemption of the earth he catches him up and there's two things I mean Andrew and I are sitting today and again fellow writes me he knows that I'm covering this tonight he wrote me this about behold that word behold and he says it must make God extremely grieved in his heart that his church has been shown so many times God's faithfulness in his love and power and yet when the next trial comes along we doubt him he wants us to behold and he says in Isaiah 49 behold I've extruded the palms of my hand can a mother forget her sucking child as soon as she can't look around Kenna kind of Brad forget her wedding ornaments and her things that means she was married it's like the things that mean the most yes she can but can I forget you O Israel affects you on the palms which means right here of my hands and I cannot give you up he says in Hosea I cannot give you and so God is greed we don't hear him you see but he says I want you to behold and so you see here he catches up John and in chapter 4 there's one thing he beholds and it staggers him it's just a chorus and in chapter 5 there's another behold things that when I think of that word at Calvary it says when the Lord Jesus was on the cross as they stood beholding him the crowd is beholding him that what a word to look at gaze and meditate upon say law in the spiritual sense so you see in chapter 4 are you there you need to read this with me if you've got your Bible turn to chapter 4 I don't know what time I even started here I guess I got another a little bit time if you need to leave you can go if you need to excuse yourself doesn't bother me do you want to take a nap lay down help you safely I'm serious it does not bother me it does not bother me you see in that Revelation chapter 4 we didn't read that today but we came close to it it says these chapters had a tone for the whole book it's like God says before you start beholding the things coming to pass on the earth and losing your heart for fear from looking I want to show you what's really going on in the throne room of God I want to show you what's going on in heaven in the beginning God grant Havis and the earth that's his order heaven first or second that's what he's priority is this is the heaven so you see the town and then to be holding so here's what he beholds chapter 4 verse 1 after this after the hearing the word about listening to what the spirits saying after this I looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice was that which I heard were of a trumpet talking with me which said come up here and I'm gonna show you things which must be Hereafter and so immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne that's that big 46 times behold a throne and so it says and one set on the throne and he that sat upon the throne was to look upon like a Jasper that's glowing and in a sardine stone that's deep red and there was a rainbow on a circle around the throne and in the sight like unto an emerald who can imagine this that circular 360-degree always covenant throughout eternity and around the throne there were four and 20 seats and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed and fine raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold and so you see this amazing picture and then so verse seven the Angels the the cherubim and Seraphim are worshiping him and the four different faces of the cherubim and the living creatures full of eyes mysterious like Ezekiel sees and verse nine and when those living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne who lives for ever and ever the four and twenty elders they fall down before him count the number of times they fall before him they fall down on their faces the seven oh and I want to know why we're so quiet they worship Him who lives forever and ever and they cast their crowns down before the throne and they sing or say thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honor and power for you have created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created so here you see in Chapter four the sovereign rule of God he's created all things the earth is the Lord's it's all for his glory awesome holiness all creation worships and the atmosphere around the throne of God is worshipped for his sovereign Majesty and holiness and who he is and so when they see him on their throne they fall off therefore when they see him on his throne they fall off their throne that's what will happen to be in you too you know when you see him on the throne really see him like I say it won't just be whoa is me you'll fall down and you'll say and he'll ask you a question you want to get involved in my purposes you're gonna have to be cleaned you're gonna have to be right you're gonna have to be oneness with me that's gonna he was joined to the lord is one spirit isaiah says be clean you who bare the vessels of the lord holiness becometh thy house for ever and ever O Lord let all that are gathered around you bring gifts and come in holiness bad people will be willing sacrifices in the day of thy power so you see the awesome holiness and inherently in this with a rainbow around the throne this is a covenant-keeping god that's on this throne from the first in Genesis 9 the rainbow all the way to the end the rainbow the Covenant of God don't let anybody else steal it and so awesome holiness a rainbow of grace and mercy and love and so we learn inherently what sin is what is sin for a created B except being away from that throne it's just being away from the throne it's not all the things we call different degrees and that it is independence from God acting like we have a right to ourselves and God you don't have a right to me you don't have a right to have my body and so tears without bowing at the throne might just be selfishness disappointed it might just become mockery if we allow it to continue in our own heart you see but so you see here you see the holiness and the majesty of God and he has a right to reign over all his creation and there's a ruckus in heaven that's awesome so big that John can't even capture it but then you see another behold in chapter 5 this is before God shows him the end of the earth as we know it the judgments verse 1 and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside as well and it was sealed with seven seals now if you know about the go L scroll the kids man Redeemer in the Old Testament you know the take two Scrolls one would be with the priest and one would be with the kids mantra neighbor it was written on the front and back and maybe seven seals concentric one and then another on top then another and be unrolled and you do the next one in the next room so you had you had to work your way in and they had to match written on the inside and on the outside this is God's scroll that you see over the nations that when he judges them to bring in everlasting righteousness this is the kinsman redeemer scroll for the whole earth if you know the Old Testament which we don't today we've not studied about that to go l the kids my redeemer and the tabernacle the priesthood and the offerings so in our New Testament is a shell to us but once you begin to see these things your heart begins to burn him so you see here they in in chapter 5 you see suddenly he sees this throne and he sees this strong angel verse 2 proclaiming with a loud voice a challenge to the universe who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof who's the one that can bring in everlasting righteousness and an everlasting Kingdom who's worthy to bring the judgments on the earth and to finalize God's redemptive plan and no man in heaven nor on earth or under the earth was able to open the book even look couldn't even look at that's how holy and amazing this book is and I wept much John says because of the way he loved righteousness he wanted to see God's eternal reign come in like we won't revival because no man was found worthy to open the book and read it neither to look upon it so one of the elders comes and says to me weep not behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David has prevailed to overcome to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof so you see we have these ideas the Lion of Judah the root of David I'm sure he turns around expecting to see yes mighty God you know gonna yeah but when he turns and he looks and he and I beheld there's that behold and lo in the midst of the throne in the four living creatures in the midst of the elders stood a Narnia's the tenderest gentlest most helpless lamb as it had been slayed this lamb had marks of death a sacrificial lamb but this lamb had seven horns that's all power that's omnipotence and seven eyes that's omniscience seeing all things and that seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth and he came and he took the book he took him he took him he came and he said I'll take that that's mine he's the next of kin he's the son of man son of God and Son of Man we sang it tonight the Lamb of God and so he says he took the book out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne and when he had taken the book the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb then they go again having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the saints in Fredericton and Lincoln you're included in that he saves them every drop every tear he keeps in his bottle it says in Psalm 56 verse 8 and he knows everything we ever mentioned everything we ever think every thought all at once of all the people of all of history it's all before him it's not confused or tired he's God and we did take him the book the four and twenty elders fall down and you see them falling on their faces and they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for you were slain and there's different translation some say you've redeemed them but it's taught angels saying this but it says whatever he's talking about you you have redeemed us to God us or them by your blood out of every kindred tongue and people and nation and you have made us or them to our God kings and priests authority and intercession kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth that's an eternal present and I beheld the voice of many angels round about the throne our brother read this so well today so beautifully I cried when you read it and the living elder and the living creatures and the elders and the number of them was ten myriads are married times myriads and thousands of thousands not just you can't count this it's vast the saints and they were saying in unison with a loud voice worthy is the lamb that was saying listen to us to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing that's the heartbeat around the throne of God worthy is the lamb to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and all in the sea I heard saying blessing and honor and power beyond to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and the four living creatures said amen and the four twenty elders fall down there go again worshiping God him who lives on the throne for ever and ever so in these two chapters show you the throne room it's a vision of the throne room of God is to say when Isaiah had maybe a different thing God let him see but in the overarching from first to finish is there's a lamb on the throne so you see in chapter 4 get this contrast chapter 4 says behold a throne chapter 5 says behold a lamb chapter 4 we see the Dominion of the throne he's over all creation he's sovereign God but you see and then in chapter 5 you see the disposition of the one who's on the throne you see the character of the one who has all authority and all power and you see the power in chapter 4 but the person in chapter 5 you can just bring the phone to me and I'll answer it if you need to you see God's holiness in chapter 4 but you see his love in chapter 5 you see chapter 4 is full of praise but the chapter 4 they're praising praising God his creator but the praise in chapter 5 eclipses and transcends chapter 4 you know why because in chapter 4 all he had to do to create was to speak his word and it stood fast but in chapter 5 is redeemer he had to shed his blood and therefore it eclipses all in the praising praising Redeemer mighty God singing about his blood and they're still doing this you see at this moment here's what I want you to get tonight at this moment right now God has chosen to represent himself in this vivid I believe it's literal actual picture I don't understand how it intimately works but I know this he said this is how I want you to see me and understand my thoughts in power and character and that is that the lamb once slain now does rain and he sits on a covenant-keeping throne surrounded by rainbow where there's been blood sprinkled on it it's covenant blood he bears covenant marks of Calvary and he this same blood it's sprinkled on the throne is sprinkled on you now if you're seeing somebody beside you start to nod off just nudging and saying do you hear that trumpet have you wake him up don't let him go to sleep because we're getting to the crux right here we're getting to the very end you see who is on the throne makes all the difference as to what that throne requires of you when you finally come back and stop sinning and come to that throne and deal with the lordship of who he is you see it's just like when a government changes don't worry I'm not gonna get into that but but but it's just like when a government changes presidents or prime ministers or kings they have the same laws but the new king determines how the law will be set forth and brought forth and they can change a lot of things so you see who's on the throne makes all the difference in has said at this moment in history there's a lamb on the throne and it is the lamb who's to be your Lord and my lord it makes all the difference so let me ask you are you fellowshipping with the lamb and don't answer me answer yourself are you fellowshipping with the lamb do you seek to please him have you part taken of his divine nature Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us let us therefore keep the feast not with malice and wickedness but with sincerity and truth to come and eat his flesh and drink his blood he's our Passover lamb and to come and and let his nature possess by these exceeding great and precious promises we become partakers of the very nature supernaturally he who's joined to the lord is one spirit and the Spirit of God in your spirit becomes the fountain for the rivers that have to fill and flood your brain and give you a new mind and give you a new emotion set on things above where he sits on the right hand of God and a new will not mine but is now and by the way Lord my body is yours to do with use me or Bruce me whatever you want but I'm Yours I'm Yours because you're worthy of all of it Lord can two walk together except they be agreed Amos 3:3 can they know they can't how can God bear an unequal yoke when it comes to something which involves the life and death of soul as you see active for him is not the same thing as occupied with him are you occupied with him is he your meat and drink is he your love and life you see the world is not walking with the lamb the churches as a religious institution are not walking with the lamb in fact religion hates the lamb because it's exactly the opposite of what so much of its trying to do today it's not the same the world is not walking with the lamb and to those who've been made to see in here humility is the Majesty Grace is what God is after right his might and the low way is the highway so are you walking with the lamb listen if you like the Pharisees imagine like there's a mighty tiger on the throne raw so if your fellowshipping with God as a tiger who's your Lord then if you make me mad he's the administrator of the men he's the sovereign Architect of the universe by the administrator so that means that all you cares about making rules you see how you impose upon we impose upon God our views of him there's a this some macho man up there is gonna bruise so it's okay for me to give my whole life and strength 100% of everything I do to with lifted weights and becoming strong see none of that matters because you see there's not a macho of the throne he's not a much I mean it's not a CEO of the throne is not a serpent on the throne when you make your majesty bite you back there's a lamb on the throne and we're called into the Fellowship of God's dear son y'all follow me I don't know if you do but this see that this will be revival for you for me when I really let the Holy Spirit make this real to me but there's a lamb on the throne and I cannot be fellowshiping with Jesus unless I'm taking sin that he took seriously cost of everything seriously if I'm not walking with the lamb I'm not walking with God this is the picture he has chosen so does the reign of the lamb take place inside of you God has to throne rooms. 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For me all these things my hands have made their mind but - this man will I look even to him this is God's house you are the temple of God you are the worship center he wants you to be a walking worship service and and he wants to live inside your temple in your spirit making his abode my father and I will come and make our abode with him and manifest ourselves to them if you abide in me and my words abide in you you can ask what you will because we're going to be in harmony and the Holy Spirit will guide you into all the truth and he'll take what's mine and show it to you it's not just a successful life it's a supernatural life from above life who has the son living here reigning here has life and he who doesn't will never see life all is his church and so you see him saying to us listen I want to reign in you in this - throne rooms look if you want to know what - allowing your throne room in here in your life go to the book of Revelation and look and see what kind of music are they listening to what kind of attitude do they have when they see him well then let that become your atmosphere your attitude your action your added what do they doing there on their face before him we put mats down here - 9 case and I want to get on their face but you see this is my heart in harmony are these two throne rooms in harmony the King of England used to leave in London from the throne when you win and he got in the South in Cornwall area and he'd take with him another tent it had a royal insignia on it and a throne of ivory that he would sit on but when he went down to Cornwall he would sit on the throne and he would sit there and when he was in residence there it had the same authority because he's on the throne there as it did in London and when God comes to you and to me he sets up his throne established as his kingdom in your heart it has the same authority it has the same race and power and I must learn to live in them and walk in there and let the lamb reign because you see the covering of the tent doesn't mean much the Pharisees miss him so so questions to finish all the New Testament confirms we are the Lambs wife we are a spotless sacrifices well behold I send you forth as lambs are sheep among wolves the same way as I was sent by the way so send I you our names are written in what book the Lamb's Book of Life when you go over here to Fredericton wherever they birth babies and they have a registration how many cows they lose their job if they put a cow in there where people are registered is born how many non lambs do you think are found in the Lamb's Book of Life we've been bought with the price redeemed by the blood of the Lamb we come to the throne of grace we discover that the same blood that was sprinkled at Calvary for me on the floor he took into heaven and he figured it they and the blood they're sprinkles me he he's laying on the altar he's reigns on the throne it's a lamb in both cases we we my sheep hear my voice he's the Good Shepherd we are the Sheep of his pasture and fear not little flock I'm with you all the way as I was sent so send I you lambs wife so I'm just saying tonight that our spotless head speak to us and call us into a real relationship you see I mean I know we can get up here and we can talk about the Lamb of God and I mean we could talk about revival we need to play more when to do all this minister that really. [00:37:26]

God on the throne so tonight I want to ask you are you in fellowship with the lamb or do you have some other ideas like of your own and god you're making him serve you you know he loves you he's gonna still love you in an inch but how much we miss because we don't know him as he is the Lamb of God how it should melt our hearts tonight that we can go to our faces and join in literally with our little tiny incense I was thinking as we were praying over here I love tiny incense merged in with all that glorious incense where the lamb is the light of the City of God it will come in all of that will come together all be consummated in him I'll take that book and one by one he opens those seals and establishes that he is their kinsman redeemer of all of men who trust in him so there's a lamb on the throne don't let anybody tell you that you have to become some other way let him change you into his image not his earthly image people say we're being conformed to the image of Christ which image is that you're talking about the first man is of the earth earthly and those that are the earth hear in the words of the earth but the second man is the lord from heaven and he's making up a body and it's made of pieces of dirt you and me dust and he's forging us together by his breath and making us into a body and we have triumphed in him and the sooner we could tried to identify on our terms with that and start realizing he included me then we can start walking together with authority and humility and power you don't have to make yourself flow you just have to acknowledge where you really are before him we are nothing he is everything you don't have to you don't have to deprecate yourself and try to walk around with your shoulders bent like this for me no no no just get on your face and realize nothing in my hands I bring simply to that cross I cling and the fact that he is a lab on the throne tonight his life vivifies and makes effectual all that he did on the earth I must say something now that may shock some of you but do you know that if the blood he shed at Calvary was never meant just to stay on earth he had plans for that precious blood of the Lamb any more than the high priest would he shed blood in the outer Court was leaving that blood right there in the outer court he took that blood into the holy place in the holiest of all into the mystery realm where man never saw just like Jesus it says in Hebrews by his own blood he came in and he sprinkled his own blood we went through the heavens onto the mercy seat of God and there that blood there was made the atoning power and his set down he appeared there he appeals there in prayer and he sat down and today he lives he's a advocate on high and he said into you if you're a believer his advocate within the third person the executive of the Godhead and these two are like this and perpetual covenant and if he won't let him he'll do more than you ever ask her thought because he's a covenant-keeping god has thrown tell us an endless story about it I'm a covenant-keeping god to see what you and I need to do tonight is to believe God that you might know the hope of his calling in Ephesians 1 that means high priest he ever lives to pray for you let me tell you the father always hears his prayers he sent inside of you the riches of his inheritance the Holy Spirit living inside of you he couldn't do that until he took the throne to a Peter says in acts 2 Twitter says in X in John 7 he couldn't I give the Holy Spirit that way until there was a glorified man who happened to be the son of man on the throne then he can send the greatness of his inheritance in his Saints that's you inside now and third the exceeding greatness of his power which works in us who believe according to the working of his power to those who believe you see we always have to be convinced by by things that shouldn't have to convince us this should be enough for us and once it starts being enough God will blow you away if tonight we could repent of our unbelief and our slowness to believe all the prophets have spoken and dared to say just as I am without one plea but thou my Lamb of God has died for me I love that song o Lamb of God I come I come the Spirit of the bride that's you and the Spirit the Bride of Christ they come come come three times and so our main business why didn't he drown you at baptism if you believe in immersion why didn't why do I mean I do what what why didn't he drown you at baptism I mean to be with Christ and be far better to die is gain just hold him under there he goes straight to heaven he left you here for a glorious purpose that only you in his amazing grace can do it may not be to be president or successful in the earth of sins it may be to reach one little orphan you can do and he left you here to realize that and as you seek his face in the scriptures looking into this like a mirror you find yourself being changed by the spirit and of the same thing you see in the Bible who he is His image and you say my lord look in the mirror and you look in your own eyes and you see there's something in there that I've never seen before it's not a what it's a who and you'll begin to weep with what makes him weep and you'll begin to have a rasp but some of the things that have him haven't read be angry and sin not you can take it too far let me pray with you father tonight I pray they'll be true in word decision that people will forsake some any form of idolatry that we have about who's reigning on the throne of the universe and that we will take your picture and that you give to us over and over and over to convince us that there's a lamb on the throne this moment right now you are the high priest of Heaven and your character is best represented from first to last by the lamb who gives himself for his people laid upon you the iniquity of us all writes our name in your book you ever live to make intercession for your flock you're the great shepherd the good shepherd gracious Shepherd and I pray that our hearts will begin to burn tonight as we consider this dare to let you be God anybody here need to repent of maybe putting something else on the throne in your heart instead of the Lamb of God are you willing tonight to say Lord Lord I want to consciously with all my heart be taught from your scripture who you are and I want to get in land with it I surrender all I'm not just making commitments to do things I'm surrendering Who I am I want you to start doing things I want you to start being yourself I want you to feel at home in my heart by faith I want the high priest to have agreement with the Spirit of God in my heart praying with groanings that cannot be uttered and he sees in he hears and we've asked it in his name and he does it and he gets all the glory teach us how to pray and live and move like that thank you for the patience of these dear ones sitting here tonight it's been a long night I know it has but I pray you'll burn these words into the spiritual retina of every heart that everything we look at we'll hear your voice and you'll be saying to us there's a lamp on the throne it will spend time there that we'll get acquainted with the atmosphere of heaven thy will be done on earth now in earth as it is in heaven let the atmosphere of your throne room become the atmosphere and attitude and action of my heart may I may I hear your voice and may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart become acceptable in your sight o my lord my Redeemer Lamb of God and so as we come to the end I just want to open this altar as we come to the end and perhaps a few of you might like to come and just have a moment here we'll wait for a few moments and maybe sister you could play something softly and maybe there's some business you need to transact coming by faith not just to the front here and getting on your knees or face or whatever you want to do make a chair into an altar but deal with your King deal with the lamb on the throne and where your life doesn't match that let him change you let him transform you he'll do it that's why I brought you here tonight he loves you but he never wanted to be your Victor he wants to be his victory in you his victory is always total it's never partial it's always now and not later and it's always his not mine it's it's glorious it's complete victory in Jesus name. 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