Revelation: Unveiling Jesus and Living with Urgency

1) "Sometimes what happens is we tend to focus so much on escaping death and escaping hell that we not focus on the beauty that is Jesus and the kingdom of God. And so what we are going to attempt to do is look at revelation, but from the perspective of we're looking at what does it say about Jesus? What does it say about the kingdom of God? And how does that relate to us here? For some of us who, online, they may not be in Trinidad and Tobago, you might be, you know, joining us from other locations. But for those of us who hear, you know, sometimes in the caribbean context, they read these things, and you're like, well, what I had to do with me. And so as we read the scripture, as we discuss the concepts, I want us to always keep in the back of the mind, okay, goddess, what does that have to do with me as a believer?" [58:11] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "And so if Jesus is trying to share a revelation or to reveal something to us, to show it to us. We owe it to ourselves to actually pay attention to what it is. It's saying, amen. All right, so, um, I'm trying to figure out how to go with this. When I was thinking about how to communicate everything today, I had this brilliant idea to do a book report. Now, I did literature in school, so I kind of started falling in love with the idea some people winking at me with. But I love the idea of doing book reports. And since we're looking at the book of Revelation, I thought, okay, let's figure out who's the title? What are the themes? What's the genre? So I'm going to talk a little bit from that perspective today." [01:00:42] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "The main character throughout the book of revelation is Jesus, the lamb of God. And one of the reasons why his name is referenced so much throughout the entire book of revelation is because what Jesus did on the cross was so significant that it shaped everything in history in the past and what is to come. And so we see Jesus because most people were expecting Jesus to come as conquering lion of the tribe of Judah, right? You're expecting to hear the roar. You're expecting to see the angels because he is the lord of hosts. But in revelation, we see Jesus as the lambda, the lamb that was slain. And so it's a paradox because Jesus being the lamb was powerful." [01:18:59] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "And so it is our responsibility as believers to introduce them to the one who has the keys. Because we could talk from now till never. We can't control where people end up. But Jesus is the key holder. He is the key to life. He is the door. And so our responsibility is not to tell people they're going to hell. They already know that. Our responsibility is to tell people about Jesus. The door. You introduce them to the door. You show them the door. And so even as we think about the book of revelation, I want us to shift our attention, because a lot of times we focus on, okay, so there's war happening in Israel and Iran, and there's things happening right now in 2024 that are pivotal." [01:21:19] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "And so our response is, amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. Are we at this stage now? This is one of those things that I struggle with for a while in my christian walk. How do I say, come, Lord Jesus? When I like it here? I like. I like Christmas. I like surreal, I like parang. I like vacation time. I like to go to the beach. So. But if I say, come, Lord Jesus, what if Jesus meet me while I eat in a bacon shark? I don't know about you all. These are the things that really genuinely run through my mind. And so for a long time, people were saying, come, Lord Jesus. I remember Felicia Marion had a song, come, Lord Jesus. And at first I like it, and then I was like, nah, Jesus, hold on. I have some things I need to do now." [01:25:38] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "And so our heart position, knowing full well that God has good plans for you, he ain't gonna throw you aside and just be miserable. God is a loving, kind God. So in our heart position, we should be able to say, yes, Lord. Come Jesus, come Jesus. Because our world needs Jesus, our country needs Jesus. And so we see Jesus in the book of revelation. One of the main things is that we see the struggle between the church that is here in the earth and the fight between all the kingdoms that come and. But at the end of it, we see the church, even though it is persecuted, the believers triumph and they overcome. And the promise at the end of this is that there will be a new heaven and a new earth and that the bride of Christ is reunited with Jesus and we get to enjoy a marriage supper." [01:26:49] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "And so while I'm wrapping up here, while we have to understand all that happens in the book of revelation and what it means pertaining to us in 2024, I say in 2025 because I've already been thinking about 2025 things, and there are a lot of things happening globally that we need to position ourselves for and take practical steps to be the church. What that means for Freeport, Wesleyan, let me be clear. Some of these things like our pantry and the building that we're doing, we have to be prepared to reach out to our community when we did the safety training and the health stuff. That is because I really believe that God is positioning us so that when times of tribulation come that we as believers can be positioned to represent Jesus on the earth." [01:31:09] (56 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)