Divine Worship: A Glimpse into Heavenly Majesty
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"After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, 'Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.' At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne." [00:00:28]
"And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!' And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever." [00:02:10]
"And they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy are You to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain, and by Your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and You have made them a kingdom of priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.'" [00:04:31]
"Which is the more real, Revelation 2 and 3 or Revelation 4 and 5? And they are both real. They both exist at the same time. Down below there is concern and worry and fretfulness, argument and discord and strife and up above there is beauty and glory and peace and concord and worship and praise and song." [00:11:20]
"But then He gives us a picture, a picture of what worship looks like and what it looks like in heaven, with sinless beings, with twenty-four elders, and four living creatures, and angels, thousands and thousands and myriads and myriads, and in one translation it is ten thousand times ten thousand, which is a hundred million angels, and they are all engaged in this solemn act of worship." [00:12:46]
"Their unrelenting focus and gaze is upon the majesty, and glory, and sovereignty, and almightiness of God. It is not themselves or their feelings or their well-being that they are concerned about. These are creatures that are totally obsessed with something. You meet people and they are totally obsessed with something; a hunting channel that I tried to watch for an hour and people were obsessed and they were whispering and they were talking about equipment and arrows and temperatures and conditions and grass and rustles and noises that they could hear, and they were all in." [00:16:54]
"What these people down below need is a vision of the reality, the reality that is beyond the veil in a parallel universe to this one. That's how I like to think of heaven. It's just a breath away. And there, there is someone who is sitting on a throne. He's in control. He has His finger on the button. He rules in majesty. He has got the whole wide world in His hands." [00:22:37]
"What does all this do? What does the holiness of God, what is the attribution of the holiness of God do? It brings reverence. It brings awe. It is the missing jewel in much of contemporary worship. Much of contemporary worship sings the American national anthem, 'Oh, say can you see, what's in it for me?' What you need is a sense of transcendence. What you need is to be taken out of this world." [00:30:29]
"You notice too that it is Christ-centered worship in chapter 5 and verse 6. Now, let me pick it up at verse 5. 'And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David has conquered, so that He can open the scroll and its seven seals." Who is it that's sitting on the throne? It's a lion. It's Aslan. No, it's a lamb. Actually it's both. He is both the sacrificial Lamb, the sacrificed victim, but He is also the Lion of the tribe of Judah.'" [00:32:38]
"And so, John tells you that the Person with His finger on the button, the Person who orders events from beginning to end, the God of Romans 8:28 is Jesus Christ because there is no un-Christlikeness in God. When children ask that question and sometimes it can be a very difficult question to answer, 'What is God like?' And I think the best answer that you can give is, 'God is like Jesus.'" [00:33:48]
"There is something else in this vision. There's doxology. There's the almightiness of God. There's the holiness of God. There's the vision of Christ, and there's doxology. And you see it in several places, but you see it in verse 11 of chapter 4, and you see there, 'Worthy are you, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.'" [00:38:52]
"I think that one of the ways to answer the question about worship and what it should look like is to take this picture in Revelation 4 and 5 and say this is a template. This is how worship should be; full of God, full of Christ, exalting His attributes, confirming His power and control, reminding us that here we have no continuing city, but we seek one which is to come whose builder and maker is God that we get, as it were, every Sunday morning, every Sunday evening a little glimpse, a little taste, a little hors-d'œuvre of glory of heaven." [00:40:24]
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"And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!' And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever." [00:02:10]
"And they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy are You to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain, and by Your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and You have made them a kingdom of priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.'" [00:04:31]
"Which is the more real, Revelation 2 and 3 or Revelation 4 and 5? And they are both real. They both exist at the same time. Down below there is concern and worry and fretfulness, argument and discord and strife and up above there is beauty and glory and peace and concord and worship and praise and song." [00:11:20]
"But then He gives us a picture, a picture of what worship looks like and what it looks like in heaven, with sinless beings, with twenty-four elders, and four living creatures, and angels, thousands and thousands and myriads and myriads, and in one translation it is ten thousand times ten thousand, which is a hundred million angels, and they are all engaged in this solemn act of worship." [00:12:46]
"Their unrelenting focus and gaze is upon the majesty, and glory, and sovereignty, and almightiness of God. It is not themselves or their feelings or their well-being that they are concerned about. These are creatures that are totally obsessed with something. You meet people and they are totally obsessed with something; a hunting channel that I tried to watch for an hour and people were obsessed and they were whispering and they were talking about equipment and arrows and temperatures and conditions and grass and rustles and noises that they could hear, and they were all in." [00:16:54]
"What these people down below need is a vision of the reality, the reality that is beyond the veil in a parallel universe to this one. That's how I like to think of heaven. It's just a breath away. And there, there is someone who is sitting on a throne. He's in control. He has His finger on the button. He rules in majesty. He has got the whole wide world in His hands." [00:22:37]
"What does all this do? What does the holiness of God, what is the attribution of the holiness of God do? It brings reverence. It brings awe. It is the missing jewel in much of contemporary worship. Much of contemporary worship sings the American national anthem, 'Oh, say can you see, what's in it for me?' What you need is a sense of transcendence. What you need is to be taken out of this world." [00:30:29]
"You notice too that it is Christ-centered worship in chapter 5 and verse 6. Now, let me pick it up at verse 5. 'And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David has conquered, so that He can open the scroll and its seven seals." Who is it that's sitting on the throne? It's a lion. It's Aslan. No, it's a lamb. Actually it's both. He is both the sacrificial Lamb, the sacrificed victim, but He is also the Lion of the tribe of Judah.'" [00:32:38]
"And so, John tells you that the Person with His finger on the button, the Person who orders events from beginning to end, the God of Romans 8:28 is Jesus Christ because there is no un-Christlikeness in God. When children ask that question and sometimes it can be a very difficult question to answer, 'What is God like?' And I think the best answer that you can give is, 'God is like Jesus.'" [00:33:48]
"There is something else in this vision. There's doxology. There's the almightiness of God. There's the holiness of God. There's the vision of Christ, and there's doxology. And you see it in several places, but you see it in verse 11 of chapter 4, and you see there, 'Worthy are you, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.'" [00:38:52]
"I think that one of the ways to answer the question about worship and what it should look like is to take this picture in Revelation 4 and 5 and say this is a template. This is how worship should be; full of God, full of Christ, exalting His attributes, confirming His power and control, reminding us that here we have no continuing city, but we seek one which is to come whose builder and maker is God that we get, as it were, every Sunday morning, every Sunday evening a little glimpse, a little taste, a little hors-d'œuvre of glory of heaven." [00:40:24]
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