Beyond Worship: Life in God's Eternal Kingdom

1) "A kingdom that will be inaugurated someday in heaven. That's the picture of what we're seeing here in Revelation 5. But is going to be physically revealed and will be a literal kingdom here on earth as Jesus rules for a thousand years in his millennial reign. And ultimately, as Revelation 20 makes clear to us, that thousand year rule of Christ is going to escalate. Escalate. Into an eternal kingdom that will last forever and ever. And in that kingdom, there will be, we're told in Revelation 21 and 22, a new heaven and, this is very important, a new earth as well." [02:10] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "It includes things like society and culture, beauty, art, food, animals, seasons even, agricultural development, national identity, personal responsibility, and even authority and interpersonal relationship. All of those things are described as awaiting you in your eternal state. And so when we say, when we all get to heaven, yes, there is going to be some very specific kind of worship that will happen there. But there is also going to be a robust kind of life that is going to be offered up as worship there in that place." [03:21] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "But the best part of it is that all of that enjoyment of His new creation is going to happen without the presence of any sin or suffering or mourning or grief or death or devastation at all. And in that place, Christ indeed will rule and He will reign with justice and with equity. And on His shoulders, Isaiah 9, will rest a perpetual kind of government that brings peace and love. Look, that, what I just described, is but the beginning of what we look forward, in the kingdom of God that is coming." [05:00] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "The first one is what He has done. We see this here in verses 9 through 10. And they sang a new song, a song that recounts just what Jesus has done. He's done saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and open its seals. Why? Because you were slain. And by your blood you ransomed people. That's us for God. And you took us from every tribe and language and people and nation. And you've now made them a kingdom and priests to our God. And they, that's us, shall reign on the earth." [07:26] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "See, through the death of Christ, he purchased each and every one of us who have placed our faith in him by means of his own blood. And the word that's used here for ransom is a word that means to pay a price out there in the marketplace. It's a word that's often used to describe the purchase price for a slave. See in the ancient world, if you wanted to set a slave free, you would simply pay their price at the market to the one whom the debt was owed." [12:51] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "See, what Jesus did through this action was to take men and women, boys and girls, and pluck them one at a time off the pavement of judgment. He took them from every tribe, that's every family line. He took them from every language group, that's every group of people on the earth. He took them from every people, the text says, that's every race and ethnicity. And from every nation, that's every political organization. And now out of all of those diverse people, he has made for himself something new, something worthy of this new." [15:36] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "In heaven, there are innumerable angels, and they have one eternal purpose, and that is to praise God. And the reason why is because they can't get over what God through Christ has done with humanity. Those of us who have been made in the image of God see from their vantage point, the angels have been witnessing the intricacies of God's working from the first day of creation all the way down to the end of time." [19:46] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "See, our whole planet and every creature on it suffers because of our sin. The universe itself in need of a basic, fundamental renewal and regeneration because we, through our rebellion, have polluted it. Not with plastics, but with our perversity. Not with our fossil fuels, but with our fundamental foolishness. And so the result is that death, decay, devastation has now crept into every corner of our world." [26:38] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "When the kingdom of God comes, all will be made right. All will be made new. And so towards that day, creation yearns and groans and longs. A day when the lion will lay down with the lamb. Catastrophe and destruction will be no more. Death and decay, blight and disease, all removed and banished forever. we're seeing here through the expression of creation in Revelation 5 is the day when King Jesus is granted the kingdom." [27:49] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10) "When the kingdom of God comes, Christ is going to give you, we're told very explicitly, authority and responsibility to steward and rule over his restored creation, and over the nations that are gathered there in that millennial kingdom. Now, let me be very clear. This does not mean that you are God. It means that you will be restored by God to the very purpose for which he made you to begin with." [38:45] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)