Heaven's Hallelujah: Worship, Salvation, and the Marriage Supper

Can I tell you something with Jesus? As good as it is, it always gets better, and the best is still yet to come. He's saving the best for heaven. That's why he looks at his disciples at a Passover in Upper Room. He says, I have longed to celebrate this Passover with you. Because I tell you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine again until I drink it with you in my father's kingdom. He says, when we have the wedding ceremony and the cups, that's the next time I'll drink. [00:56:43] (35 seconds)  #SavingTheBestForHeaven

Do you know why they're in weird angles? Because when the nativity scene is set up the right way and you position all the characters the right way, everybody is looking at the baby in the manger. The center point of the nativity is Jesus. The center point of the worship in heaven is Jesus. And if we're gonna worship like heaven, then the center point of our life has to be Jesus. It's really not the songs we sing. I mean, those are great. They talk about Jesus. We're reminded of Jesus. We celebrate Jesus, but worship is more than a song. [01:03:06] (46 seconds)  #JesusAtTheCenter

It's not a service. It's not an hour on Sunday. It's not trapped in just a song or the way it makes us feel. It's where we take every aspect of our life and we turn it and point it to Jesus and say that's our focus. That's the one who saved us. That's the one who's coming for us. That's the one worthy of worship, and we focus on him. If all of heaven focuses on Jesus, why wouldn't we? [01:05:18] (39 seconds)  #WorshipIsALifestyle

Have you ever thought about what you got saved from? Most of the time, we present salvation as what you're saved to. We talk about the joy of knowing the Lord. We talk about a brand new life. We we talk about when we all get to heaven. But you and I were saved from something. The great Old Testament picture is Passover. The children of Israel are slaves in Egypt. The lamb is slain. The blood is shed, death passes over, and they leave slavery for freedom. [00:44:50] (34 seconds)  #SavedFromSlavery

Do you ever think about what you were saved from? What you were brought out of? What you were rescued? What what would your life be if there had been no Jesus? Where would you be left? Where would you be trapped? What would continually happen in your life? The the stuff that is the slavery of sin that you could never break or get out of. Heaven stops and says, thank you that you saved us. [00:45:28] (29 seconds)  #RememberYourRescue

In our world, we have a lot of great and small. The rich and the poor, the haves and the have nots, the popular and the unpopular, the athletes, the nerds. We we grew up in this world where we kept wanting to climb some social ladder and be better, be more. But heaven says all of that doesn't matter anymore. The big and the small, they they don't matter anymore. Here's what matters. You've been rescued by the blood of the lamb. That what matters is we are there. [00:48:14] (36 seconds)  #RescuedByTheLamb

And so there's the celebration of justice, but we need to be careful with this. Too many times, our justice is based on us. Do you ever have somebody do you wrong? Treat you wrongly, say something they shouldn't, do something they shouldn't, And what you waited for was the day when they finally got theirs. And you just said, I wanna be around there and see it. I just wanna watch it. I just wanna go, well, finally, they got theirs. [00:46:33] (32 seconds)  #JudgmentReflectsGod

Because it's about us getting some sort of vengeance or retribution or us being satisfied in some way. That's not what this is about. That's not this judgment. This judgment is about the character and the nature of God and who he is. It is about his glory. It is about his power. It is about his authority. It is about the fact that if God does not judge sin, then he is not a just God. He is not a holy God. And this is about him being who we know him to be. [00:47:04] (32 seconds)  #WorshipInEveryMoment