The Song of Tribulation Saints: Worship and Perseverance

If you were to pick out a song for your life, what would you pick out? If you had a song you wanted to say, this is what I would wanna say defines me. What would that song be? In chapter 15, we're gonna see the song. The song of tribulation saints. The song that they sing that that they say this defines us. And I want us to see why they choose that, what that means, and I want us to consider our lives. What should our song be? What is the song that really does capture who we are and what we are about? [00:32:33] (37 seconds)  #SongOfMyLife

But now they are here with these signs. And these signs proclaim, no, there is only one God. Still on his throne in heaven. Still ruling. Never challenged and never thrown off aside. And so these saints here, they're part of this this great and awesome sign. And John says, it's bigger than you can imagine and more impressive than I can describe. It is great and it is amazing. But he also calls it a final sign. Look at this. These are the last for with them the wrath of God is finished. [00:38:27] (35 seconds)  #FinalSignComplete

This Greek word for finished means to come to its end or its completion, But it also has an idea of perfection to it. A completed end that needs nothing else. You know, artists, they spend a lot of time working on their artistic expressions. Whether it's painting or or sculpting or or any of those things. And and they're very particular about the details. There's certain nuances and details they want in their artwork, and they labor over it painstakingly. Things that seem small and inconsequential to you and I are big deals to an artist. [00:39:01] (37 seconds)  #FinishedMeansPerfect

We're gonna see God's justice. God is a just God. God is a righteous God. He does not ignore sin. God is a patient God, a long suffering God, not willing that any should perish, but all come to repentance. But there does come a time where the end happens, and the final judgments are rendered, and all things will be made right. John says, we're there. This is it. These bowls, this is the end. It's about to unfold. [00:40:48] (32 seconds)  #GodIsJust

Well, the place clearly is heaven, but the way it's described is is terribly interesting. Look there. They're at the sea of glass mingled with fire. Now those elements shouldn't go together. I don't know if you know this, but if I take water and pour it on fire, it goes out. They don't mingle. They they don't connect. Fire can get underwater and heat it up to steam and evaporate it. They they they don't go together. So how do these two things go together? Well, it's symbolically what it represents. [00:42:09] (32 seconds)  #SeaOfGlassAndFire

We are a nervous people. We get worried. We think we have to control everything. We think we have to handle everything. We're busy. We're going here. We're going there because if we don't do it, nobody's gonna get it done. And I gotta handle it. And we get nervous. And what if they don't? And what if this happens? And what if that happens? And so we get ourselves all worked up and it's not long until we're just churning. And you feel those waves roll one after another after another. [00:43:11] (26 seconds)  #CalmTheChaos

A calm sea. A a sea like glass has no ripple. It's not churning. Do you ever come upon that water and it's so calm? It's like a mirror. It just reflects what's around it. In front of God, there is no turbulence. There's just peace because he's all powerful. Nothing threatens him. Nothing challenge him. There's there's no point in heaven where God said, let's have a meeting. I don't know what to do. It's never happened. [00:43:37] (35 seconds)  #SeaLikeGlass

There there's no point where something ran out of control and God wrung his hands and said, boy, I sure hope that this works out the way I planned it. It doesn't happen. You and I, we live in that world. But in front of God, he does not. We've gone through this book of Revelation. You can read a lot of things and you go, oh, that's bad. Oh, that's terrible. What about that? What about that? What about that? And God simply says, it is all in my control. [00:44:12] (30 seconds)  #GodIsInControl