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Live, it's Monday night. Welcome to Rob and Vicky's home as we have a Bible study tonight in Revelation chapter five and so let's pray. Father we thank you for this night that we can gather in a home and nice and warm and open our Bibles to Revelation five and we pray that you bless as we worship you as we study your word as we fellowship as we pray and Lord we do lift up Joe and Linda in the hospital pray thee for your healing touch upon jo's body your perfect will to be done lord and do miracles of healing we pray for sally also that you would heal sally that you'd remove all the cancer cells and help her body her immune system get strong and overcome it be with mike and Shannon as they've wrestled with health issues also. And also be with Shannon who has an affection and with her teeth being pulled and all, help her to get back on track with the antibiotics and all and be ready to have more of her teeth pulled out Lord. So bless her Lord in Jesus name, Amen. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Revelation chapter five. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the sweet time that we can worship you in fellowship. Thank you for the tuna casserole and all the other food. Good comfort food Lord, down home good food. And we just thank you for that. We thank you for all the work that goes into preparing and being here. Thank you for the time of prayer and fellowship and encouragement. And Lord we pray that as your word goes forth that it wouldn't come back void that it would be a blessing unto others and Lord we pray the edify and build us up and strengthen us tonight and equip the saints for the work of the ministry Lord in Jesus name, amen. Alright, we're in chapter five. The church is still in heaven and around the throne of God. Now again, by way of remembrance, Rob says I repeat myself. I gotta do this because I'm gonna test you. I have to keep asking you these questions and saying these things until you have it memorized. So Peter said, I'm gonna tell you these things though you know them, right? I'm gonna remind you of these things. So tell me what is the outline for the Book of Revelation? Revelation. One verse. One nineteen. Debbie's going to read it. Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which shall be hereafter. Okay write the things which are what's that? Or write the things which you have seen. What's that? Christ. Jesus. Christ. Chapter one one. John saw a vision of Jesus. Right? Write the things which you have seen. Write the things which are present tense. And where was that? Church age. And where did it start? Where did it end? Two and three. Okay and then when write the things which shall be hereafter. Meditata after these things. After the church age, where is the church? Heaven. In heaven. So, Meditata after these things. So, chapter four and five, we see the church in heaven. When we start chapter six next week, no more mention of church until chapter 19. So, the tribulation period is going to be from six to 18, some say 19, War of Armageddon, return of Christ, and the church is returning with him. Jude tells us he returns with 10,000, thousands of his saints, right? And so, 19, Jesus is returning not for the rapture but in his second coming and so, and his bride has made herself ready, the church, and she cleaned white garments. No, we've been washing the blood of the lamb and then, what is chapter 20? The millennium. The millennium. And and that's a Latin word, right? And what's that mean? Thousand. Thousand And so Jesus is going to rule and reign for a thousand years. Some would call that the golden age, right? Some would call it call it age of Aquarius. What what else? The counterfeit devil, what's he try to call it? Golden age. Golden age. Utopia, right? And so it's it's very interesting as we continue to look at 2026 as we continue to study through this Bible. We're going to see everything that the Bible says the devil counterfeits. He's got a counterfeit for everything. And people are so clueless that don't know the Lord. Cause they don't see it's just so simple. It's just so simple. And I can see it. Somebody says a new world order. Well, that's a counterfeit millennium, right? If Hitler says a third reich, oh, that's a counterfeit millennium, right? These different leaders throughout history that envision these things, they're getting it from the devil and that inspiration and all. So, the devil's a counterfeit. He sees himself as god the father, his antichrist in place of Jesus Christ as his god the son and then his false prophet is god the holy spirit and like we talked about yesterday, the seal that we have of being sealed by the holy spirit, the engagement ring, the counterfeit is Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18. The seal, the mark on the right hand of the forehead that he demands, the devil demands everybody to receive, not just the seal but the worship also, a marker as a worship. So in chapter five here the real question is who's worthy to open the scroll and to loose the seal? Who is worthy to rule the earth? There's only one person worthy, that's Jesus. So why do you have so many people today boasting of how they're going to rule and what they're going to do and how people aren't going to die anymore, you won't need money anymore, you'll be poor but you'll be happy, you know. These guys again are counterfeits, they're tools of the wicked one who envisions the the devil envisions being worshiped as god. He envisions you know, having having the whole world worshiping him and he tried to get Jesus to bow down and worship him and Jesus didn't refute the fact that because Adam and Eve forfeited dominion over the earth when they sinned, Satan, they disobeyed God but they obeyed Satan, and by obeying Satan, by obeying the devil, he became the prince of the power of the air, little g god of this world. So it requires, as we said, the last Adam to come to live a perfect life and to redeem those who are and even creation needs to be redeemed. Creation groans and travails in Romans eight waiting for that redemption, for the curse to be reversed. And so the curse upon the earth, the little G God of this world, a fallen angel named Lucifer with one third of the stars we saw in Revelation 12 that fell with Lucifer in Isaiah 14. In Ezekiel 28 a description there, and so this scroll represents what? Seals. The title deed to the earth. This is the title deed. Satan took the title deed from Adam. And now the son of man Jesus, is the only one that can get it back. There's nobody else can get it back, only Jesus. And so John is there in heaven and he begins to weep because nobody has the answer. Who can, you know, open the scroll and loose the seal and and John John is is heartbroken. So, and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a scroll written within and on the back sealed. There's a nice word we studied yesterday. Sealed with seven seals. So seal the the number of perfection. This the title deed and it's at the throne of God and holding in his right hand. Now a scroll, your King James might say book, but it's better translated scroll because it is a scroll, they'd have parchment leaves that you could get along the rivers like the Nile River and they would take these leaves and dry them out and then try and form it so it'd make a big roll. So this one's rolled probably about 20 feet front and the back and and this is the title deed to the earth. Written within and on the back sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel possibly Gabriel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seal? So that's what I'd say to all the boasters today. All of them that are, oh gosh, there's no end of the boasting, you know, no end. And you know, you're you're never going to die, they're saying. We killed god. God's dead. We just haven't buried his body. You know, Noah Yuval Harari is one of the biggest boasters. And Elon Musk and and a lot of these technocrat guys, they're boasting what they envision up ahead. And Voltaire one time boasted also, and then he died as a little wussy and, like every man, the equalizer. And the attending nurse said she never wanted to attend the death of an atheist again because it's so horrible the way that he was shrieking as he went into eternity. So they boast, they boast, they boast, but they can't deliver. So there's nobody, there's no Adolf Hitler, there's no Alexander the Great, there's no Nebuchadnezzar, there's no past leader, there's nobody that's died and risen again except Jesus, he's the only one. There's nobody able because he was crucified, buried, raised himself from the dead, proving that he's god because he's deity. He's the last Adam and he's the only one fit to rule the world and as king of kings and lord of lords, nobody else. So Satan being the usurper, he's not gonna be able to he's gonna spend eternity in hell, the antichrist and the false prophet, eternity in hell. And And he says and no man in heaven nor in earth neither under the earth was able to open the scroll and to lose and to even look on it so there's a silence there so we see the word scroll in verse verse one. We see the word scroll in verse two. We see it in verse three. We see scroll in verse four, verse five, verse seven, verse eight. We see verse nine. So this scroll is a big part of the topic here, the title deed to the earth, seen as in heaven, and so who is worthy? So a little bit of a silence there and then we come up to verse four. Worthy is the lamb. Now this word lamb, we're going to look at the word lamb also is used here, not just lion but lamb. And this word lamb here is a little lamb. A little lamb. So funny how these technocrats think they're so strong, so powerful. All their money, their technology, all their everything and God says, know what? I'm gonna use the foolish thing to confound the wise. I'm gonna liken my son to a little lamb and this little lamb is going to destroy them, all of them. So we're going to see that Jesus has right to this planet for three reasons. We lost it, we forfeited it. There's three reasons Jesus has right to this planet. Number one, he created it. Number two, he redeemed it with his blood, bought it back. We lost it, he bought it back. Number three, the only thing that unbelievers understand, they don't care about creation. They make up evolutionary theories. They don't care about the cross, his blood being shed, and God's love. The only thing they understand is power, conquest. It's his by right of conquest. When he comes back, the blood's gonna be as high as the horse's bridle. And then every knee is going to bow. All the angels, all the demons, all the unbelievers, everyone's going to bow and say Jesus Christ is Lord. The demons and the devil and the antichrist are not atheists. They believe in Jesus. They know who he is. They know their destiny. Remember Gadara? We know who you are Jesus. Have you come to torment us before our time? But the devil, he keeps doubling down. He keeps doubling down trying to convince that one third of demons that, hey we got to kill Israel. We got to wipe them all out. Hey we got to chase after Israel then stop Jesus from returning. And that's the that's the the hilarious aspect of Psalm two. Oh how the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing and god holds him in derision. He laughs and the lord says, my little finger stronger than you guys, you know? I'm going send my son as a lamb. A little lamb, right? Now, he's lying but I'm going to send him as a lamb, you know? Just just a toy with your heads, you know? And so it's a sword of his mouth. And so the the world has their Goliaths. There's Goliaths that come out there, and they're just they're decked out and everybody's afraid. And I remember when COVID happened and the objective was to get everyone afraid. Oh, get them afraid and Joseph Goebel said if you get them to fear then you can get them to do whatever you want. You gotta get them paranoid and afraid and Jesus, how many times you just have to say fear not, fear not, fear not, you know, I think over 80 times, fear not little flock for it's your father good pleasure to give you the kingdom and we're so immersed, so afraid and we're told to don't even fear him who can kill your body Jesus said, because that's the ultimate threat is I'll kill you if you don't. We will kill you if you don't take this mark, right? And so when Covid happened we tried to remind people of this isn't the big C, this isn't cancer, and cancer is easy for the Lord to cure if he wants to, right? There's nothing too hard for him. Is it a cold? Is it COVID? But all of a sudden COVID is bigger than cancer. It's bigger than anything else out there, and it's all of a sudden the whole world's shut down, the whole world stops, Klaus Schwab and the guys are gearing up for a cyber attack. A cyber attack's gonna be bigger than COVID, and they're gonna they're gonna shut everything down. Blackouts, prolonged blackouts. And he says that's gonna do more devastation than COVID did, you know, just by shutting the power off of everybody and shutting the Internet off and and bringing forth their reset thereafter. How many people think about that how many people are going to die when the power goes off, you know, and when the internet where people can't communicate and all. But anyway, that's their technology. And so John says, and I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the scroll neither look on it. So you can't open it, can't read it, can't even look on it and Jesus is described as a lamb in John one twenty nine and verse 36, the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world. Also in acts eight thirty two as a lamb and several times in the Old Testament also as a lamb. So, nobody's able and John is just beside himself. He's going to be weeping here pretty soon and one of the elders say it unto me, weep not. So, you got 24 elders, representatives of the church. One of the elders say it unto me, weep not, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals. So who are they referring to? You got to go to Genesis 49, right? We got to go to Genesis 49. Who wants to read Genesis 40 nine:eight through 12? Who are we talking about here? Apparently one of the elders, a Bible student. So who's king of kings and lord of lords? Who's promised to be king of kings and lord of lords? What tribe does he come from? And what lineage? David. The Davidic covenant, right? Second Samuel verse seven, but first we need to see till Shiloh come. Genesis 40 nine:eight-twelve. Who wants to read that? Okay, Debbie's there, she's ready. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. Thy hands shall be in the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's wealth. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down. He couched as a lion and as an old lion who shall rouse him up. The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his fall unto the vine and his asses' colt. Unto the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of the of grapes. His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth shall be white with milk. So praise the Lord, the Messiah, the Christ, the the anointed one, the one that the Jews were waiting for. Unfortunately, they didn't see that he'd be Messiah would be cut off in Daniel nine twenty five through 27, but this is this is letting everyone know what tribe he'd come from, the kingly tribe, and it says here in our text, the root of David. So the root and the offspring of David, the source of David, and and out of David's loins. So the lineage that goes through the legal line as we do at Christmas in Matthew's gospel. The legal father is Joseph, stepfather Joseph but his his right to the throne through the legal line of of Joseph. Not through Solomon but through Nathan because of Cornelius curse, so God caused it to go through a different son of Solomon, but then also through Mary's lineage in Luke chapter three, in that her lineage goes all the way back to Adam and she too is in the kingly line, her father Heli. And so he has right to the throne along those lines. He prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seals. The prevailing of the conquering is not only the lineage, right to it, but being crucified, buried, raising himself from the dead, being the last Adam, he has right. All the legal right that would be binding by the devil, the devil would hold God accountable if you can say that loosely, but challenging God's holiness. The title deed Leviticus 14 gives the details of what's required to be able to open that scroll and to loose the seals. And I beheld and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, so the cherubim angels, and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb, a lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And so in the midst John John is there in heaven he's been there in chapter four and five and he doesn't see Jesus doesn't see him. Why is that? Why were two or more gathered in my name Jesus said I'll be there right in the midst. Why can't John recognize him? He's beat up, right? He's disfigured. So now we turn back to Isaiah chapter 50 and we remind ourselves that when the two were on the road to Emmaus and they're walking with Jesus after the resurrection they didn't recognize him. You remember? And when he came into the room eight days later after Thomas didn't see him, the 11 Thomas being present, the 10 saw him, then Thomas eight days later Thomas, they don't recognize him until they see the scars on his hands, but from his face it doesn't it doesn't look like they're able to recognize him. So in Isaiah chapter 50, this disfigurement says I gave my back to the spiders and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. So remember when he was being tossed around from Pilate to Herod and back to Pilate? Remember the soldiers did how they mocked him and they put a Judean crown of thorns upon his head and they pulled his beard out and they beat him with staves, beat him with sticks, and then they put a bag over his head, a blindfold, and then they began to punch him and hit him, different methods, different ways of hitting him, and you can't feign with the punches, you can't roll with the punches, you know, so you're just a blunt object and he's getting beaten and beaten and beaten and beaten there and pulling a beard out is gonna pull skin with it and chunks of skin. And the cat of nine tails on this back is not going to just lacerate the top of the skin but going to go down deep because they have pieces of pottery and bone and the cat of nine tails would have a stick and then different pieces of leather strands with pieces of bone and hard things that would hit in the back and then grab hold and pull it so it's pulling chunks causing to bleed and he's getting hit in the face in that same way, it's not just the back. And so he's going through a time of disfigurement. I gave my back to the spiders, their deep furrows that they brought and my cheeks of them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting. When he's not hanging on the cross, people are coming by and they're spitting on him and the shame of it all. Now turn to Isaiah 52 verse 13. Behold my servant shall deal prudently and he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high and so the Lord is nailed to a cross that's thrust in the ground and he's standing or he's nailed to it above the ground as people would walk by. As many were astounded at his visage, his face, people are astounded at his face when they see his face. And those of you that work in law enforcement or firemen or first responders or in hospitals, you've seen people in car accidents, people that have been burned, people that have been disfigured. And as many were astounded at the his visage, his face was so marred more than any man in his form more than the sons of men. So there's the shock factor. People are shocked to see his face. It's so disfigured. You can imagine his nose being broken, cheekbones broken, disfigurement. So shall he sprinkle many nations, so the blood of sprinkling in the temple, his blood's gonna sprinkle many nations. The king shall shut their mouths at him for they for that which they had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider and so as the gospel goes forth and Christ crucified they hadn't heard this kind of a thing and his blood that's being shed. Who has believed our report? Isaiah 50 three:one. Few, very few. And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him like a tender plant and like a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness so he's not going to have this natural beauty that people are drawn to him. That's the view of the devil, the devil was beautiful in that way and he doesn't have a halo over his head, he's not shining like a light bulb unless he's in his glory on the Mount Of Transfiguration, but in his humanity he blends in. He just blends in with everybody else and like a tender plant and like a root out of the dry ground he has no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there's no beauty that we should desire him no outward beauty. He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not why can't John see him Why can't the two on the road to Emmaus see him? Why did the disciples have a hard time recognizing him? Why when Mary in the garden, Mary Magdalene, it wasn't until he opened his voice that she recognized his voice. She thought it was the gardener And when he first came to her, she could see him, but she didn't recognize him. And she said, tell me where you laid him. I'll come pick him up. You know? And it's that voice recognition. His voice, Mary, and then she says, Rabboni, and then she grabs hold of him. And sometimes we change quite a bit from grade school and high school, and then when we go to our school reunions, maybe it's been fifty years and people don't recognize us, right? And we run around lying to people saying, you look the same. You look the same. But in many cases the voice is the same and you recognize the voice and in a lot of us our voices change too. It all changes. So he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed the atonement the woman the reconciliation that we enjoy with God all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord laid out say there's nobody worthy there's nobody worthy who's worthy all we like a sheep have gone astray we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God there's nobody worthy we've turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all so father if you're willing remove this cup from me nevertheless not as I will but that will be done and so the only way was all of our iniquity to be laid upon him My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? In Psalm 22 and he was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He's brought as a lamb, here we go lamb, So differentiate between a slaughterhouse of way pigs, cows, chickens, and lambs are executed or slaughtered. Apparently the lambs, they aren't yelling and screaming. So he opened not his mouth. He has brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as sheep before shears are dumb. They don't talk. They don't say anything as they're cutting all the hair off of him. So he opened not his mouth. So in Pontius Pilate, when he stand up for Pontius Pilate, Pilate said, don't you have anything to say? Don't you know that I have power to crucify you? And Jesus held his peace. He Nothing to say. Pilate was so enamored with the majesty of Jesus because many, many, many a criminal has stood before Pilate and they shaken, they're scared, they're afraid, and Jesus had no fear. And when Pilate says don't you know that I have power to crucify you Jesus said you have no power except that which is given you from above and are you a king yes I'm a king to this end came I forth to bear witness of the truth and Pilate says what is truth? Very cynical and well the incarnate truth is standing right before you Pilate but he was Pilate was blown away at the majesty of Jesus and he brings him out after having been flogged and beaten and all. And he says, behold the man. He was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation? He's not married, doesn't have any kids. For he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken. He made his grave with the wicked. He got the two thieves, one on each side. And with the rich in his death, he got Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus providing the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. He's a wealthy Jew, a believer in Jesus and also Nick and they asked Joseph, you know, why would you give this poor carpenter, you know, your really cool tomb, know, this really valuable tomb, a tomb for your family to be buried in, for you to be buried in, and Joseph said well he only needs it for the weekend. He was taken from prison and from judgment who shall declare his generation for he is cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people as he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has put him to grief and thou shall make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed and he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands. So speaking of his submission, he's completely submitted unto the Father. I do always those things that please the Father. He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied by his knowledge shall many shall my righteous servant justify, justify if I've never sinned, many for he shall bear their iniquities. And so Titus three:six-seven, not by works of righteousness we had done but by his blood. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he has poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors, the two thieves and he bore the sin of many, he died for the sins of the whole world, but especially for those who believe that appropriated that free gift and made intercession for the transgressors. Remember he said, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. So now back to chapter five here he's in the midst where two or more are gathered there I am in the midst he said in Matthew eighteen twenty right? And there he is he's there and the four and twenty elders are there, chair of angels there, set the throne of God at the ancient of days God the father is there Jesus second person the trinity is there and and I behold and lo in the midst of the throne and out of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as though it had been slain means a little bit more as we read that if we were to go to John 19 and we're to go through the Gospels and read the account of the crucifixion of what he went through, it become more vivid. You can do that for your homework and I want to report back. Don't let AI write it, okay, because I can spot AI. So he stood the lamb as though it had been slain having seven horns. The horns speak of power so he's omnipotent, omnipotent. The eyes speak of what? Omniscience. You know on your dollar they got the all seeing eye? Counterfeit, counterfeit. You see they want to see everything right? Want the cameras and and just so you know don't do anything wrong out in the driveway Rob's got a camera out there now watching you and he's got a he's got on his phone too. Can see it work. So but big brother's got these cameras everywhere, right? I mean, portable ones. If there's a grocery store that has some trouble, they got portable cameras up there and they're tied into the police department, know, somebody's watching these things and make sure you put your shopping carts back, they're watching you. It'll lower your social credit score. Don't let them roll and hit my car either, we're watching you. Okay. So stood the lamb as though it had been slain. Having seven horns he's omnipotent. Having seven eyes he's omniscient which are the seven spirits. So we saw in in Isaiah eleven two the the seven spirits. The the spirit of the holy spirit the attributes of the holy spirit of god sent forth into all the earth so he's omnipresent too all the earth by his spirit again the devil's a counterfeiter he's going to try and counterfeit that omnipotence right Like he's all powerful, like the antichrist, the sovereignty of every leader, they give it over to the antichrist, you know? And he's gonna be this omnipotent ruler. Who can fight? They say, who can war with the antichrist? Who can war with this guy? You know? And when the time comes he just drops dead with the sword of the Lord's mouth and the brightness of his coming. Boo, dead. And not even able to throw a punch, he's just dead, just gone. And stood a lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns, seven eyes, seven spirits of God sent forth in all the earth. And he came and he took the scroll out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And so John, you know, sobbing. He wept much in verse four, sobbing, weeping because if there's nobody worthy to open this title deed then it means that the devil is going to be the liturgy god of this world indefinitely. If Adam and Eve would have been able to eat of the tree of life, then they would have remained in that sinful condition for all eternity. And God left him let him leave the garden not with fig leaves and not with eating the the tree of life but left him with a promise in Genesis three fifteen, the gospel, that the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, he's worthy, his heel's going to be bruised, he's going to be crucified, but he's going to crush the serpent's head. And they left the garden in coats of skins signifying future that Jesus would be the lamb of god who doesn't just cover but takes away the sins of the world, right? And so, he and he took the scroll out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. The ancient of days. And let's turn to Daniel chapter seven thirteen and fourteen. So he took the scroll out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. Daniel seven. Ready? You guys like Daniel. Right? Do you guys attend to churches? Studies the book of Daniel? Yeah. Wonder how rare that is. We love it. Alright, so we have the ancient of days up in verse nine, right? And I beheld till the throne were placed and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool and his throne was like the fiery flame and wheels is burning. And so we look at that as God the Father. Attributes of Jesus though as he said, have I been such a long time with you Philip, he that has seen me has seen the father, right? And so when we look at Isaiah nine:six, unto us a child is born, unto a son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name should be called wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace, right? And so he that has seen me has seen the father chip off the old block but one God and three persons, father, son, holy spirit. So I saw in the verse 13, I saw in the night visions and behold one like the son of man, that's his favorite title. He loves identifying with you and I. When we're baptized, we're identifying with him, his death, his burial, his resurrection, but he loves the title of son of man in the gospels. That's his favorite title to describe himself and it comes from here. One like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven. So when we look at the book of Revelation, he's coming with the clouds of heaven, right? And he came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him. In this dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away in his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. So who is worthy to rule the earth? Daniel seven thirteen and fourteen tells us that it's Jesus, the ancient of days, and over in verse 22, until the ancients of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. So who's worthy to open the scroll and loose the seal? Jesus and why is he doing that? Because you and I are gonna rule and ring with him. Oh and here we see we're included. Over here, it's kind of hard to see you and I a part of that but where you see Jesus identified as the one that's going to be the king of kings and lord of lords, he's the only one that's worthy to rule and reign and then John in the Revelation gives us a broader view of not just you and I but also the wife of Jehovah, the nation of Israel, as we saw in Daniel and Zechariah and the minor prophets and in the major prophets that Jeremiah 3one 31 the unconditional covenant that God has with the nation of Israel. No replacement theology but at this point it's the church that's Jewish and Gentile male, female, barbarian, Scythian, bonded free out of Avery, nation, tribe, tongue, and people, he's redeemed us. And so over here and he came and he took the scroll out of the hand of him that sat upon the throne. So the ancient of days, the father and the son comes up, am I, you know, I'm the lamb of God, who's worthy? The lamb of God, it's me. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures, so no angel could do this, there's no man that could do this, only the son of God. And when he had taken the scroll the four living creatures and four and twenty elders, so the representatives of the church fell down before the lamb having every one of them harps and golden bowls full of incense and incense is a picture of the prayers of the saints that are coming up to heaven which are the prayers of the saints and they sang a new song so you got the chair of angels you got the church there and they're coming to worship king Jesus. And they sang a new song saying thou art worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred tongue, people, and nation and has made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth. You see that? Now there's some very important things here. Number one, he has right to the throne because by right of creation he's creator. So in the beginning was the word, the word was with god, the word was god, the same was in the beginning with god. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory as the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth, the deity of Jesus Christ. He's the creator. You follow that through to Colossians one, Hebrews one, Revelation one, and you see his deity and his description as the creator. He even created Lucifer, created the angels, created everything, part of creation. In the plural, in the beginning God, in the plural, the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit are part of creation. And so that's number one, so right by right of creation, secondly by right of redemption. And so you guys remember the story of the little gingerbread man? Do you remember that? So there's a little girl and she was making Christmas cookies with her mom and her grandma, and she made this gingerbread man. And just before she was able to, get him out of the oven and all, he popped out of the oven and started running. And she's chasing after the little gingerbread man and the gingerbread man's saying, Run, run as fast as you can, You'll never catch me because I'm the gingerbread man. And so she's just chasing after him, chasing after him. And then she's going down the street there in Poulsbo and she walks by Sly's Bakery and this gingerbread man is in the window and she goes in and lets the proprietor know, Hey, Mr. Sly, Mrs. Sly, that's my gingerbread man. I made him. And they said, Well, we're sorry, you're gonna have to buy him. And so she had to pay 10¢, and she grabbed that gingerbread man, she held him close, and she said, You're twice mine. I made you, and now I bought you. You see, God made you and I and we rebelled, we ran away. And know you not that you're not your own, you've been bought with a price, therefore glorify God, you know this temple that we have with the Holy Spirit living, dwelling within. And so and the third is by right of conquest. He's going to subdue all the kingdoms of the world. When we get into chapter six next week, we're gonna see the purpose of the tribulation as a threefold purpose. Number one purpose of the tribulation period is to bring an end of wickedness, to bring an end of evil. All the pretenders that you vote for, everyone promises and none can deliver. Who is worthy? None. To open the scroll of Lucille, they're all counterfeit pretenders. And one day God's going to God's going to stop the wickedness. The pedophiles. All the wickedness. It's to end wickedness. And secondly to judge, to punish the world. He's going to pour out his wrath upon a Christ rejecting rebellious world. And the third purpose of the tribulation period, remember, we switch gears and we say it's the time of Jacob's trouble. The third purpose, everybody seems to be worried about Israel right now and whether you're anti semitic, a zionist or whatever whatever whatever and people are looking for moral reasons to love Israel and be kind to Israel and bless those who bless her curse those who curse her and we're never told to love Israel because they're moral. We're told to love Israel because our Messiah Jesus is Jewish and that the future kingdom is Jewish. He's gonna rule and reign. So we're in the times of the Gentiles presently and in this times of the Gentiles, Gentile nations are dominant over the nation of Israel. And but one thing about the nation of Israel is they've been regathered in unbelief, blindness in part. The if there's a revival going on in Iran and the whole world is listening to the propaganda of Iran's gonna strike us, Israel, so we need to hit them first. Spiritually speaking, there's more going on in Iran than there is in Israel. Israel is in rebellion to God. Building a temple is in rebellion to God. He's not asking them to rebuild the temple. The Bible describes the building of that temple in their rebellion against God and their blindness against God. They're going to rebuild the temple and they're going to be deceived and signing a treaty with someone other than the Christ. They're going to do it in place of Jesus Christ. So you see the rebellion, the rebellion, the rebellion, the rebellion. So the third part of the tribulation period is it's the time of Jacob's trouble. It's a time where God refines, purifies a one third remnant of stubborn, stubborn, stubborn, stubborn people that finally recognize they crucified their messiah. It's the one they pierced. They begin to mourn and they cry out blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord and it's the fire of the tribulation that purifies that one third remnant, two thirds die. So that's the purpose of the tribulation period three I mean isn't it aren't you glad that when Jesus returns there's no more wickedness? That he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness and you and I are gonna rule and reign with him? Know? And the the counterfeit devil and all them they they imagine projecting or developing a technology of an ability to stop crime before it starts. Right? Well, in the millennium, God's gonna be able to do that. Jesus knows all things and you and I are rule and reign with him and if someone says I'm gonna rob that seven eleven store over there. No you're not. No. He's gonna rule and reign with the rod of righteousness. People are gonna sin. The Gentiles that repopulate the planet are gonna sin but it's gonna be nipped in the bud, it's gonna be stopped, it's gonna be there's no trend of, hey, have a wave of crime in this, you know, but at the very end to show people's hearts the devil's released and the people rebel and they're wiped out by fire right away. But the heart of man for many of them didn't change. They didn't but the nation of Israel is all saved and we as the church we're in our new glorified bodies rule and reign with them. But I can see where the children could be playing outside. Nobody's gonna steal children. Nobody's gonna traffic children. Not even the curse is gonna remain. A snake, you know, the child can in Isaiah 11 can be playing in the yard near the mouth of a hole where a snake comes out, but the parents don't need to worry because there aren't any poisonous snakes anymore, right? And the wolf and the lion, the lamb and little child leading them, so the curse is reversed. And that's gonna stop, the wickedness is gonna stop. And so a remaking of the earth, so to speak, or a resurgent and eventually a new heaven and a new earth, but for the millennium it looks like he's gonna restore the earth that's been so badly beaten down during the tribulation period. And if he did it in six days the first time, then that seventy five day interval period between the second coming and the start of the millennium, that's plenty of time to cleanse the temple, get rid of the abomination of desolation. I don't know why some people think that Jesus would even use that temple. I I would I would raise it. It's like just the whole thing's defiled. Don't clean it up and have this idea that Jesus go in there and sit down. You know, just get rid of the whole thing. Build a new millennial temple, Ezekiel's Temple, you know, which is gonna happen because we see the architectural plans for Ezekiel's Temple as we study through there. So, anyway, I don't know why people think that he's gonna let the devil know these guys build him a temple, you know, it doesn't make any sense, especially with the Tikhis Epiphanes going into the second temple period and Zerubbabel's temple and taken pig's blood in there and defile it and all, crazy. So when he had taken the scroll the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb. So in chapter four we saw the four and twenty elders fall down and worship him because thou art worthy for thou hast created all things. You see that verse? Thou art worthy o Lord to receive glory honor and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created. So they're worshiping the lamb, they're worshiping Jesus because he's the creator. Now they're worshiping him and not because just he's a creator but he's a redeemer. He has the right of redemption, he has the title deed to the earth, he can redeem us because of his blood. Yeah. So the four and twenty elves fall down before the lamb having every one of them harps, there's gonna be some good worship music here, and golden bulls and you know when I have my new glorified body I'm gonna be able to sing. God's gonna let me sing and I mean I make a joyful noise now but there won't be any limitations then. Having every one of them harps and golden bowls full of incense and so your prayers are precious. God's collecting your prayers. Our prayers are precious in God's sight. They're coming up as incense, a fragrance, a sweet smelling savor before the Lord and especially when we say not my will but thy will be done Lord. Give us this day our daily bread you know as we as we humble ourselves and nevertheless not my will but thy will be done. So we're praying our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever. Amen. That fits here doesn't it? It fits and those prayers come up as incense before the Lord is well pleasing unto him. And Jesus implores us to pray to ask, seek, knock, keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. You have not because you ask not because you ask a mist desiring to consume these things upon your own lust, you know. And so they sang a new song and I've got a book coming out what this song is. I know what this song is. No. I don't know. Prayers of the Saints. And so they sing a new song and so part of the singing is thou art worthy, that's the name of the song. Thou art worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for thou wast slain. So we're worshiping you because you're the creator. We're also worshiping you because you're our redeemer. You were slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood, not with corruptible things like silver and gold, Peter said, but with the precious blood of Jesus as a lamb slain. By thy blood out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation, and has made us so everybody, he's not prejudiced, he's the savior of the whole world and the Jews have the wrong attitude. They have the wrong attitude that Gentiles were made by God simply for fuel for the fires of hell. So a self righteous pious Jew would wake up each morning and he would thank God that he was a Jew, he'd thank him that he wasn't a Gentile, he'd thank him that he wasn't a woman. A woman or a Gentile. So very prideful and I loved how Jesus was so kind to women and so kind to Gentiles, the Syrophoenician woman with the child that was sick and Jairus, how incredibly kind he was, and the people of Samaria, the Samaritans who were once hated and he purposely, you know, visited with in John four the woman at Jacob's well and then in his teaching on who is my brother he purposely used the Samaritan as the hero in his teaching. I hated Samaritan. And there was a Levite and a priest that went left hand, right hand, I'm on the left, I'm a Democrat, I'm on the right, I'm a Republican, and neither one of them stopped and did anything, and it was a lowly Samaritan that came and picked the guy up, poured oil into his wounds, bandaged him, put him on his own means of transportation, brought him back to the inn, paid for the guy at the inn and everything. It was the Samaritan who was the hero of the story. So God's not prejudice. Every single one of us, he's no respecter of persons. He loves each and every one of us the same and there's no ethnic group of people that are destined to hell, know. And this prejudice that people have, Jesus said that in the last days in which we're living the love of many is going to grow cold and nation would rise against nation which is ethnic group. So we have to be aware when the propaganda is coming that we're supposed to hate. That's not of the Lord. We're not to hate. We're to love and there's no group of people that we're supposed to hate. We can hate the sin, but we were seeking to save that which is lost. So again, I'm really stoked that in Iran it's the fastest growing church in the world. The synagogues are empty. And in Texas, it was supposed to be really conservative, and in Dearborn, Michigan and Minnesota people are worried about the Muslims what they're gonna do in their ideology right? Right George? Patterson And New sounds to me like we in the church got some gospel sharing to do, Right? So I can see it happening in Europe because the churches are dead. Right? So this false belief system of Islam is gonna fill that void, that vacuum, because the church is not there anymore. It's a post Christian era. But we in America can you imagine coming into a place that has a stronghold of Christians and trying to fill up a mosque? That's absurd. The Muslims themselves like in Iran would choose the church, right? If we're doing our job, if we're doing because Jesus, you know, he's the lily of the valley. You know, he's far more desirable than Allah, a moon god, and Muhammad is prophet. I mean, We're afraid of that? I don't think so. But in a secular world, I could see their concern, right? Breakdown of society, it doesn't need to be secular. So here's an important few words here. Notice us. This is another proof text that the church has been raptured, that the church is in heaven. Us. So let's go over that again. And when he had taken the scroll and the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb having every one of them harps and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints and they sang a new song that thou art worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for thou was slain and has redeemed us. These guys are singing at the church there and they know they've been redeemed. They're in heaven. Now some of your Bibles might say them rather than us. Read them or they instead of us. So let me give you a little bit of apologetic on this in case somebody tries to tell you that your King James Bible is wrong. Okay, here goes. We've got 95 known manuscripts on the book of Revelation. 95 manuscripts. 24 of them have Revelation five. 23 out of the 24 read us. Jerome's Latin Vulgate reads us. Only one version reads they or them. So your NASB Bible and many of the Bibles that are translated today would would translate this as they or them. And the reason is is a lie. It's it's a falsehood. The only one that reads they or them is out of the Codex Vaticanicus that reads them. So here's what happened. You have the early church authors, right, the bible written in the common tongue two thousand years ago. You've got 27 books in the New Testament. 23 of the 24 that we read today have us. So you have the Bible written in Greek, Koine Greek, and the Koine Greek is used by the early church. And then the early church in 03/13 comes through a time of the beginning of the dark ages. And in the beginning of these dark ages, the pope with the government began to suppress the distribution of the Bible, the reading of the Bible. And so you had people still having the Bible and pieces of the Bible that they translate and pass because you don't have printing press, you gotta write it, your codex gets old, your paper gets old. So codex is what's on animal skins and the papyrus is that roll that you roll out on the leaves and all. That gets old after time and how do you distribute that so everybody has a Bible? So now you're given pieces of it. That's why he said there's twenty, ninety five known manuscripts on Revelation but only 24 with Revelation five. So if you're in China right now, you might have this Bible here. We're gonna divide it up. Hey, you get Revelation five, you get Revelation four. There's only one Bible. So that's what's called the received text or the majority text, the Byzantine text. The Byzantine era is the era of the Dark Ages and the majority, the Textus Receptus, the received text that the church had, true Christians had, was what we call the majority text or the Textus Receptus, the Byzantine text. And that's the one that was in distribution. So we have over 5,000 of those manuscripts presently original from that time period. And we have two challengers to those 5,000. It's called the Alexandrian Text that came out of Alexandria, Egypt. In the Alexandrian Text, there's two versions, Codex Vaticanus, member Vatican, and Codex Sinaiticus. These are manuscripts that the Catholics had and they made a lot of changes. These are manuscripts that were pristine and not used. They weren't in circulation. So a group of people named the Waldenses in the Alps, they would 20,000 of them are wiped out by Pope Innocent because they had Bibles, because they were able to read the Bible in the common tongue. And Erasmus came along to translate the Greek text and to get Bibles in the hands of, you know, for the common people. So Tyndale comes along and he's gonna get Bibles printed on and then he's executed. So there's a big push against people, the common people having the word of God in their native tongue. Certainly they would bring Jerome in and he would have the Latin Vulgate for the upper echelon of the Catholics that are fighting against the common people, you know, not having the word of God. So common people don't speak Latin, only the upper educated. So the Greek speaking people would take the Bible that come, what we would call the majority text that Erasmus was a part of, and it's the received text in that people receive this text. And in all those texts, it's us. But the Codex Vaticanus and Sinaiticus toward the end of the 1800s, there were two guys, two scholars named West Cotton Hort along with another guy named Tischendorf. And they thought that they needed to take the King James and to get rid of the antiquated speaking, the sixteen eleven King James, to get rid of the these and thous and all that kind of stuff. Elizabethian English that people don't understand, right? And they made changes. They were gonna just revise the Bible. So when they revised the Bible, they made 33,000 changes. And much of the changes had to do with the deity of Christ and with because it's coming from a Catholic standpoint, Codex Vaticanus Sinaiticus, they use those manuscripts and they trick people into thinking these are more accurate because they're older. The only reason they're in that condition and they claim that they were hidden and now we found them is because nobody used them. They weren't in circulation. So there's but there's many, many bibles that have been printed since then, And so you got two streams, families of manuscripts. You got one stream, that's the majority text for the Old Testament, and then the received text for the New, these 66 books. The other side of it, you could have the Septuagint, which is a Greek version of the Old Testament where he has 70 scholars and Alexandria in Egypt produced the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible. And then you lay the New Testament in there it would be the Codex Alexandrias and Codex Vaticanus, that two different streams. And so there you go, that's a little bit little bit of a Bible. You need to be aware of this kind of stuff because with AI here you're going to see Bibles being changed and changed and changed changed and changed. You're going to want one in your hand you're going to want to get to know this Bible and you want to do some study on the origin of the Bible and learn the different ways that the devil's tried to change the Bible. Mark, you know, edit the Bible, edit things out, And I like the King James or New King James because in its family of manuscripts, it comes out of the majority text. And we know that in translating some of the stuff in King James, the translators might have that are recording things might have got a few things wrong, but we know where those are and we can correct them, and we can look at the majority texts to correct it. So for instance, in here, if the King James has a book rather than scroll, we can take this Bible, this Schofield Bible, and we can revise it and put their scroll and then next to it a little letter that tells us it's book, but didn't have books, they had scrolls. You see what I mean? So unfortunate that the translators of the King James put book there. The emphasis here is that we're us, we're there in heaven just before the seals are going to be open. Now we get into chapter six, there's gonna be people that say that the church is gonna be in the tribulation period until like verse 17 because for the great day of his wrath is coming, who shall be able to stand? Well, they don't think that they think that we're in there for the four horses until verse 17 because it's the wrath of man that's happening. Elon Musk is causing the famine. Bill Gates is causing the wars and all that. It's not the wrath of the lamb. Well, then we say to him, we just read chapter five. Nobody's worthy to open the scrolls and loose the seals except one man. So it's the wrath of the lamb all the way through Burrow. You see? Rosenberg, a guy in the eighties, tried to come up with that. It's called a pre wrath rapture. Alright. Going too many fields. Verse 11, and I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living the living creatures, so the cherubs, and the elders, and the number of them was 10,000 times 10 thousands and thousands of thousands. So how many is that Bernie? It's incalculable. Right? Yeah. Of you a lot. Yeah. And mucho. Mucho. Same with a loud voice. Worthy is the lamb. So everybody up there singing this song worthy is the lamb, right? And we're joint heirs with him, we're joint heirs with him everything that he received that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessings so seven sevenfold description of his worthiness. Let's look at those seven again, same with a loud voice worthy as a lamb that was slain to receive power omnipotent unlimited power riches we just studied being plutocrats right the riches that are ours in Christ Jesus he's the creator he's the redeemer it all belongs to him and you and I are joint heirs with him makes us plutocrats the riches that are ours in Christ Jesus wisdom, boy we need wisdom today, strength, honor, glory and blessing and and every creature that is in heaven, so we tend to look at heaven as alright, it's the holy angels up in heaven, right? Creature angels all the angels holy angels and on the earth a lot of creatures on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying. So all of creation blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb. This little tiny lamb, that's all God needs, a little lamb, Mary had her little lamb, the throne and unto the lamb forever and ever. You'd think that God would develop a Goliath. Right? I'm gonna put the biggest baddest steroid dude that's gonna come and wipe all you out guys out my champion and he just laughs and he sends his son as a lamb. I heard one pastor say, if it if it was a planet of dogs and you were god, how would you incarnate your son? What kind of dog would you send your son back as? Chihuahua? Can that Chihuahua have a good day with a Rottweiler or a Pitbull? Does he have a chance? So you're gonna send him back as a lion or a lamb? He's a lion in the sense that he's the kingly kingly tribe, the lion king, but god's like, you know what? He's a little lamb and my love is demonstrated and I sent him as a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth under the lamb forever and ever and the four living creatures said amen and the four and twenty elders fell down and worshiped him that lives forever and ever worthy is the lamb. So we see in chapter four the church the four and twenty elders taking their crowns off, worthy is lamb for thou has created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created We see again the four and twenty elders with the angels and all of them and so turn to Philippians two now. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of his servant and was made in the likeness of men. So he's the second person of the Trinity and he's coming back as Hebrews one would say not as an angel but as a man, the son of man. He tabernacled in a human body and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death and not just any kind of death, a specific humiliation, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven, things in the earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And so all the angels above, all the demons below, all the people throughout all of history, all the leaders, every creature, everything's going to bow before him. Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. So you can see the picture in Revelation 20 of the great white throne judgment and all the wicked dead resurrected from hell standing up before God and every knee bowing every tongue confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord. And then he sentenced them to the Lake Of Fire where they'll spend all eternity. And the devil and the false prophet and the antichrist are in the Lake of fire there with them, and you and I are gonna rule and reign forever as kings and priests, and he's gonna continue to show his kindness unto us in the ages to come beyond the millennium into the eternal state, the new heaven, the new earth, the new Jerusalem coming down, and you and I for all eternity are gonna be singing worthy is the lamb. Right? Alright, let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you for the time that we could spend in your word and that we could get a glimpse of heaven and just you pull the curtain back just a bit and we see that we're there, representatives of us, the church been raptured in heaven, metta touta after these things, the church is in heaven and Lord we're not in the tribulation period six to eighteen, we're not there. There's tribulation saints, there's huge battle going on, there's a 144,000, 12,000 from each tribe that you've sealed and marked and they're going to be evangelists, there's going to be innumerable multitude of tribulation saints that refuse to worship the devil and there's going to be Jews Lord, two thirds of them wiped out, one third preserved, purified, brought to faith, you're writing your word into their heart and they recognize you and they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. I thank you Lord that you've saved me already. I thank you Lord that I get to enjoy this salvation even now and I get to look to the future Lord knowing that the best is yet to come. That, Lord, you're coming for us, your bride. And we're watching. We see these things. And you said, Lord, when you see these things begin to come to pass, to lift up your head because your redemption's drawing nigh. You're gonna come for us Lord, this purchased possession. You purchased us with your blood and you're only one worthy to rule and reign. So Lord we submit ourselves to you afresh tonight. We want you to rule and reign in our hearts. We want you to live through us, as we surrender unto you, as we surrender all that you're our savior and Lord, and we yield to you, that we do always those things that please the father. So blessed, Lord, we pray. Give us that soft, humble heart, that obedient heart, that desire to please you, to live lives pleasing unto you. In Jesus' name, we pray. And, Lord, we lift up Joe, that you would heal him, that you would do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think according to your power Lord. We we don't know if we really believe to what degree Lord do we believe in healing. We know you can heal, but Lord, we don't know if you will. Where do we get that confidence, that measure of faith, that gift of faith that you speak to our heart and you say to us, I'm gonna heal him. So Lord, we don't know. We haven't heard that sort of a word. So Lord, we just pray not our will but your will be done. Whatever your will is, Lord, takes great faith to pray that, to trust you with your decision, Lord, and with Sally the same way that you'd heal Sally, that you continue to heal Mike and Shannon, that you heal Shannon with her mouth, help her her jaw and everything to get ready for the new dentures eventually, and take away all the infirmity, all the infection and the pain, the fever. And bless, Lord, pour out your holy spirit, build us up as your bride, as your church, and let let, let our lives bear much fruit for your kingdom and glory. In Jesus' name, pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
