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The Incomparable Christ 0:00 Shall we give the Lord a clap offering church? Hallelujah. It is a joy and a privilege to bring God's word to you. Today, we are continuing our series in the book of Revelation. We're0:12 gonna focus on chapter 1 verses 4 to verses 8. I am titling this sermon, The Incomparable Christ. I want us to read the text together. So0:24 Revelation chapter 1 verses 4 to verses 8. Let's read it together. John to the 7 churches that are in Grace to0:36 you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the 7 spirits who are before His throne, and0:48 from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by0:59 his blood and made us a kingdom priest to his God and father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is1:11 coming with the clouds and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so,1:23 amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Hallelujah. Shall we look to the Lord1:35 in prayer? Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this day. Give us listening ears, Mighty God, to hear what the Spirit has to say to the churches. And Lord, open our eyes to see1:46 Jesus in all His beauty and glory that we will not only behold Him but we will be transformed into His likeness. And because of who He is and where He is1:58 today, we can have confidence in our hearts to live the life that you have called us to live. So today we ask for Your Grace. Holy Spirit be our teacher. In Jesus' precious name and the people of God2:09 said, Amen and Amen. Today we are studying from Revelation chapter 1 and verses 4 to 8. The title is The Incomparable2:21 Christ. You know my family has a nickname for me. Especially my wife calls me a celebrity magnet. Anytime, more often this happens,2:33 whenever I'm traveling internationally, I run into either a Hollywood actor or a Bollywood actress or some music director or some cricketer and it2:45 happens 1 too many times. Sometimes I see people crowding around them crazy trying to get their autograph and even a selfie with them. And I have to admit2:57 at some times I have also shamelessly stood and asked for a photograph for the sake of my family. Only those who are closest to me know these things. But what3:08 fascinates me in this is there are so many people who are crazy about celebrities. They go aga aga about them. That means they go crazy. They keep following3:20 their Twitter feed or their Instagram posts. They go to the public places where they appear and stand in the queues and get their photographs because they're so crazy about them. Now, you and I,3:32 we understand this that people want to follow certain celebrities because they celebrate them for the performance they did in a movie or maybe the game they played,3:44 the golf they played or the tennis they played. In other words, they are attracted to their talent, their performance and they follow them. Now, I want to ask you this fundamental question this3:56 morning. What makes Jesus worth following? Because you can see these celebrities visibly, you can track them, you can see what they do every single day,4:08 but you have an invisible Christ at the moment. What makes Jesus worth following? That's the fundamental question I want to address this morning. And you know what4:20 makes Jesus worth following? It's because Jesus meets our utmost human needs. And this morning I'm going to touch on 34:31 needs that He meets to the saint, to the sinner, and to the seeker. The needs that Jesus meets. Let's look 1 by 1. The first4:43 1 is, To the seeker, Jesus is the faithful witness unto truth. The Bible says in verse 4 and verse 5,4:55 the first part, this is how John writes. John to the 7 churches that are in Asia. Now you and I have already established in the overview last week that John is5:07 writing this as a letter of all the visions that he has been graciously given by God. What he has seen, he is writing it down for us. Now he wrote5:19 these letters to the 7 churches and they are in Asia Minor, what today you would call it Turkey. Now, the Bible says he writes just like any other letter, there is a greeting and the greeting5:31 comes like, Grace to you and peace. And then he goes on to give the greeting from the Trinity. You find the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son mentioned5:42 here. Now usually in a Bible record, usually Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That's the order in which things are written. But here, especially in this order, John swaps it5:54 around and he says Father, then he speaks about the Spirit, and then he speaks about the Son because he wants to highlight who the Son is. So let's look at it 1 by 1.6:06 The Bible says, this is the greeting. In verse 4 he says, From Him, who is the Him? He is the Father, God the Father, who is and who was and who is to come.6:17 Hallelujah. When he speaks about God, he uses the word that He is, who was and is to come. What does that mean? It means that God is a God who is6:29 always God. He is a God who is present in your past, He is present in your present, and He will also continue to exist in the future. See, whenever you and I think of God6:41 the Father, you have to think of the eternal eternality of God. In other words, that God is eternal. He is not bound by time like you and I.6:53 He is outside of time but he acts in time in our lives. So the eternality of God means that he is a timeless God. He is about time. He is beyond time.7:04 Hallelujah. That means God can see the past and the present and the future at the same time. Why? Because he is about the continuum of time. That's what he7:16 highlights for us. That we have a God who is sovereign, who is eternal. Hallelujah. The second thing he says is a greeting from the 7 spirits who are before his throne. Now he highlights there are7:28 7 fold spirits. In Revelation you will hear this again, 7 fold spirits. It doesn't mean that there are 7 Holy Spirits. It is 1 spirit but he talks7:40 about the 7 fold, the completeness. Whenever the bible speaks about 7 and in Revelation there will be a lot of 7, it speaks about completeness, isn't it? So here he is saying he is a complete, he is sufficient for7:52 us. The Holy Spirit is a spirit that is totally sufficient for every moment in your life. In other words, Holy Spirit is enough. This 7 is actually8:04 explained in the bible elsewhere in Isaiah chapter 11 and verses 1 and verses 2. Let's read it together. There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the8:16 spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him and the spirit of wisdom and understanding and spirit of counsel and might and the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Look at it. It has 7 things. The spirit of God,8:28 the spirit of wisdom, spirit of understanding, spirit of counsel, spirit of might, spirit of knowledge, and spirit of the fear of the Lord. In other words, when the Holy Spirit comes upon the Messiah, Lord8:40 Jesus, he comes in a complete form. That means you have access to the entire resources that is found in the Holy Spirit. And that is what you and I have. Hallelujah. So he8:52 says from God who is eternal, from Holy Spirit who is sufficient, who is enough. Hallelujah. And then he goes on to say, it is also from Christ Jesus.9:04 Now, when he talks about Christ Jesus, he gives Christ Jesus specifically 3 titles that I want you to focus on. And this is where I get this point to the seeker, Jesus is the9:15 faithful witness unto truth. Why? Because the first thing he highlights about Jesus is that Jesus is a faithful witness. He exalts Jesus and9:27 firstly he says he's a faithful witness. What does it mean? See in the Old Testament when God chose Israel, God declares that Israel was meant to be his witness on9:39 earth. You are my witnesses he says in Isaiah 43 and verse 10. See in the New Testament, the church, the redeemed people of the Lord who are gathered together and we are the body of Christ, we are supposed to9:51 be with his witnesses. Acts chapter 1 and verse 8 says, you shall be my witnesses. Isn't it? In other words, you and I are called to be a witness. But how many of you know Israel failed to be a10:02 perfect witness of God representing God to the nations? How many of you know that church also sometimes doesn't truly reflect the character and the nature10:14 of God to the world? Because we fail. We are human beings. That's why God had to send his only son who came down from heaven. Look at what the bible10:26 says in John chapter 3 and verses 11 to 13. Truly, truly I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness to what we have seen. See, whoever bears witness, they are10:38 bearing witness of what they have seen. So Jesus is bearing witness of what he has seen, but yet you do not receive our testimony. If I told you earthly things, in other words, Jesus is a witness10:50 even for the earthly things, you do not believe. How can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? How does Jesus know heavenly things? Because no 1 has ascended into heaven11:02 except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. Jesus came down from heaven. God sent Jesus down to this earth as a son of man. Son of God became son of man. Eternal11:13 God became an incarnate son. Eternal son became an incarnate son so that he can be a faithful witness of God on earth.11:26 Listen to me carefully. John chapter 18 and verse 37, Jesus himself said about the reason, the purpose for his coming into the world. Look at this. I have come into the world to11:37 bear witness to the truth. Why did Jesus come into the world? He came to bear witness to the truth. What is truth? Jesus says in John chapter 8 1411:49 and verse 6, I am the way, the truth and the life. No 1 comes to the Father except through me. In other words, Jesus is the truth and He came to bear witness unto truth. The Father sent12:01 Him to bear witness unto truth. And the Bible declares Jesus is a faithful witness. Hallelujah! I'm so blessed12:13 knowing that He came to show us what the Father is like. He came to show us how a person ought to live before God. He came to show us how you can live an yielded12:25 life, a life of surrender empowered by the Holy Spirit fulfilling the law of God and living a righteous life that pleases the Father. He was a faithful witness.12:37 And the Bible says, He was faithful witness to represent the Father. That's why Jesus could boldly say this in John chapter 12 and verse 45 He says, Whoever12:48 sees me has seen the 1 who sent me. Isn't it? That means can we boldly say like that our witness? That if you have seen me you have seen how God will act in this situation. Wow! That's how13:00 Jesus was and the bible calls him, he is a faithful witness. He bears witness to the truth. That's why you and I when we need to study about the life of Jesus, we read13:12 about the claims of Jesus, we have to come to that point to recognize he is bearing a faithful witness and the people who believe that this witness is true, they can be born again. Hallelujah.13:24 So if you are a seeker, can I humbly ask you this question? Will you hear and respond to His faithful witness? You and I, we need to come back to Him to say, Lord,13:36 I believe that you are a faithful witness. The word witness here is a unique word, matters. It's an English word where you get martyr. In other words, someone who is willing to13:48 die for the truth they believe. That means you are witnessing of what you have heard, what you have seen, what you have experienced but you are willing to die even to the point, to the point of death. You13:59 are willing to stand by what you believe. That's the witness and that is what Jesus did and the Bible says He died. When He died, the Bible says He did not remain dead. He is the firstborn of the dead, the Bible says. In14:11 other words, He was raised back to life. When he was raised back to life, the bible calls him he is the first born of the dead. What it means, Paul writes in another passage and he says he is the first fruits of those14:23 who have fallen asleep. In other words, God raised Jesus to be the first 1 to come out of dead to have the resurrected body. In other words, there are other people who were raised from the dead but they did not have the14:34 resurrected body. They died again. But Jesus who was raised from the dead dies no more. He lives forever in a glorified form and that is a prototype. In fact, this word first born is the14:46 word prototokos which from where you get the English word prototype. In other words, he is the prototype of what is to come. In other words, for you and me as believers in Christ, we will 1 day be raised back to life14:56 just like Jesus has been raised back to life. That's why the Bible says in John 11 25, I am the resurrection and life whoever believes in me though he die yet shall he live. Hallelujah. Praise God.15:09 And the Bible continues to say that after he was raised in Philippians chapter 2 and verse 9 and verse 10, the Bible says, Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is15:21 above every name At the name of Jesus every knee would bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth. That's why the bible says he is the ruler of the kings on earth. That's the third15:33 title that was given. So can I humbly ask you this question? Do you believe in the witness, the faithful witness that Jesus came to bear? And if you believe, He leads15:44 you into truth. Hallelujah! A story was told of a gas company that sent 2 of their technicians to a house. The15:56 housewife opened the door and they said, Ma'am, we are here to check the gas connection in your house. So they went in to check and because it was the last job for them on that day they16:08 decided to do something funny. They said, Okay, why don't we run back? Run back to the van and let's see who gets to the van first. So the 2 technicians started to run after they16:19 checked. The housewife was working in the kitchen, all of a sudden saw these 2 technicians run out of her house and run to the van and she ran after them. And they turned around and said,16:31 Hey, why are you running? Oh, I thought you checked my gas and I thought I better run. See, many times people are running but they are running after empty things.16:43 In this season of pandemic, don't run after empty things. Time is too short. Run after the truth and the ultimate truth is found in the Word of16:54 God and in the witness that Jesus bore. Hallelujah! So come back to him. The second thing that I find is, why is Jesus worth following? Jesus is worth following17:06 because he meets our utmost needs. The second is, to the sinner Jesus is the loving Redeemer unto salvation. Look at what the bible says. See when John thinks about17:18 Jesus, all of a sudden he bursts forth into a Christ centered doxology. In other words, he starts to sing a hymn and this is the hymn he is singing about Jesus. Look at verse 517:30 and the second part. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom of priests to his God and father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. In17:42 other words, he burst forth into a song. He was rejoicing. And there he talks about 3 things that Jesus has done for you and me. For a sinner,17:54 Jesus is a loving Redeemer unto salvation. Look at what he says. Jesus loves us. Let me give you the 3 things and I'll unpack. Jesus loves us, Jesus liberates us, and Jesus lifts18:06 us. Look at what he says. Jesus loves us. In other words, from the 1 who loves us, Romans chapter 8 and verse 38 and 39 says, this love that Jesus has for us, no18:18 1 can separate us from that love. Why? Nothing on earth, nothing in heaven, nothing in hell, nothing, no experiences of life can separate you from the love of God. God loves you that18:30 much. Hallelujah. Now, many times when we are going through a tough season or many times when we are going through certain experiences of life, we usually use those experiences as a18:41 gauge to say whether God loves me or He loves me not. You know there was a time when my son David and I, we were in Texas and18:53 David wanted to go to this site. He wanted to visit the Dude Perfect headquarters. Now many of you may not know who's Dude19:05 Perfect. Dude Perfect is a group of young men who play tricks with their ball. They throw basketball into the hoop from a moving vehicle, that sort of thing. In that season19:16 David was very fascinated by them and he wanted to go to the headquarters and hoping to meet and take a selfie with 1 of them. Now, cut the long story short, I had a19:28 free afternoon and I said to him, David, I will drive you there. So I drove him to that place and when we got there, to our surprise, it was a place where it was heavily secured. All the19:40 windows are shut and you can't see anything. The doors, there's no doorbell, nothing. It was a completely empty compound and with a high level of security with cameras and all that. I19:52 said to David, do you know that they He said, No, Daddy. I don't know whether they will come out. I don't know. I just came here just to take a photo. I said, Okay. And he wanted to wait there for a while.20:04 I said, Dave, I'll give you up to 10 minutes. You stand here. If anyone comes out, take a photo otherwise you're going back. I went back to my car and I sat there and in the car I said, Lord,20:16 I love my son. I drove him here because I want him to have this experience. But I'm not going to ask you to open that door and bring somebody out because that's so trivial but yet I know you're a good20:27 father. Amen. 5 minutes the door opens. The guy who is supposedly the leader of the group in all their videos, his name is Tyler, comes out and he's standing there20:39 at the door. He's not going anywhere. He's just standing at the door. And David ran and started to talk to him so I went and took a photo of them and then started to chat with this guy20:51 and he was standing there for a while, like 5 minutes, 6 minutes, he's still standing. So I asked him, he said, I'm waiting for the Uber driver to deliver my lunch and he got lost21:03 somewhere So I'm just waiting for him. Now, after a while when we were driving back, I turned to David and said, David, you are truly a beloved of God. God loves21:14 you. Now, and many times, this is what happens, isn't it? We equate something good happen to us means God loves us. And if something doesn't happen, we equate it as, does God21:26 really love me? Can I humbly say this church? Once and for all people of God, we need to establish the truth that God loves us and the love of God is not seen in the in the experiences of life. Love of God21:38 is seen in Jesus being sent to the earth. John chapter 3 verse 16 says, for God so loved us. He sent us Jesus. Hallelujah. Not only that, Jesus not only was sent by God because he loves us,21:50 Jesus was nailed to the cross and the nails did not hold Jesus on the cross. It was the love that bound him to that cross. The bible says in Romans chapter 5 and verse 8, read this together with me,22:02 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Hallelujah. That while we were still sinners, Christ died for us and that is the way God22:14 shows us his love. So once and for all, establish in our hearts that He loves us. And in His love, you know what He does? He22:26 liberates us. He sets us free. See, when a person in the early church when they are reading this letter, there are different words that are used for love. In the Greek language you22:37 have phileo, which is the love between friends. And then there's toge which is a love between family members. There's a deeper bond of love. But then there is a eros love.22:49 Eros is a love for sexual partners or husband and wife when they are intimate. But there is a love that is unique to the New Testament which is agape. And this agape is23:01 the love of God, a sacrificial love where God was willing to die on our behalf so that He can save us. The Bible says He not only loved us, He liberated us.23:13 Look at what it says in the verse. It says He freed us from our sin. Isn't it? He freed us. Revelation chapter 1 and verse 5, the second23:25 part, He says, He freed us, hallelujah, from our sins by His blood. That word freed us could be translated in 2 ways. In the Greek, the English translation here uses the word23:36 freed. In some translations, it used the word washed because the the word is so, the word the letter the spelling is almost similar. The sound of the word is almost similar. It23:48 could be either interpreted as washed or freed. And so bible translators chose which 1 they would use. Some use washed and some use freed, but in the case of Jesus, what he has done for you and me both applies.24:00 He washed us. In other words, first John chapter 1 and verse 7, the bible says, the blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin. In the blood of Jesus cleanses us. He24:12 washed us. Hallelujah. At the same time, the bible also says in Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7 that in Christ, in him, we have redemption. Redemption means we24:24 have been bought back. We have been purchased. We were slaves to sin and Christ redeemed us. Christ paid the price and redeemed us, set us free from slavery. Hallelujah. Today, you and24:36 I are set free through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace. Hallelujah. That's why both these things apply. He washed us.24:48 He also redeemed us. You know, what it means is He freed you. He set you free. That means you no longer need to carry that guilt, that shame, that condemnation. You no longer need to be25:00 bound and be in bondage to Satan or bondage to sin or bondage to addictions. You can come out of it in the name of Jesus because he has set you free and25:12 whom the son sets free, he is free indeed. Hallelujah. The word of God declares he not only loved us, he liberated us. Not only liberated us, he lifted25:24 us. Look at what the Word says, He lifted us. In other words, He did not leave us in our sinful place. He redeemed us. He washed us but25:36 He did not leave us just there. He took us to the highest place where He established us in His righteousness and as a result, He has made us kingdom and priests25:48 to God His Father. Revelation chapter 1 and verse 6, the Bible says, He has made us kingdom priests to his God and father. To him be glory and dominion forever and25:59 ever. Amen. Hallelujah. What does it mean to be part of a kingdom? First Peter chapter 2 and verse 9 says that you are a royal priesthood, a holy nation. You are a chosen26:11 people. You are a chosen race. Hallelujah. People who are for God's possession. God owns you. He treasures you. You are among the treasured people on earth. Hallelujah.26:23 And the Bible says, you are now His people. God has made you kings and He has also made you priests. Priests means that you intercede for others. You represent God26:34 to others and you also represent man before God. You intercede for man before God. At the same time, you also offer spiritual sacrifices unto God. That's26:46 why your speech is a worship, your singing is a worship, your act of giving is a worship, your act of serving is a sacrifice. All these things are spiritual sacrifices that26:58 you and I are called to do because we are priests of the most high God. Hallelujah. The bible says in first Peter chapter 2 and verse 5, to offer spiritual27:09 sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Do you behave like a kingdom of priests? You are now part of the kingdom. That means you have27:21 Jesus as your eternal King and the Bible says You are now redeemed. Hallelujah! To the sinner, Jesus is the loving Redeemer unto27:33 salvation. And the Word of God says this, that as John saw Jesus, the faithful witness, as John saw Jesus the firstborn from the dead,27:45 as John saw Jesus the ruler of the kings on earth, John begin to birth forth into a song and the song was about Jesus. To him who loved us, to him who loves27:57 us, it's a present participle. To him who loves us, meaning he continually loves you. He always loves you. He loves you and he freed you. That's in the past tense. He freed us and He made28:09 us. Hallelujah. And then John goes on to sing like this, To Him, to this exalted Son, be glory and dominion forever and28:21 ever. Amen. You know many times a believer's life, they are depressed, are going through circumstances, they are crying. Can I humbly say, when you are going through28:32 challenging times don't lose focus on the 1 who is exalted? Look at him because when you look at the beauty and the glory of Jesus, the majesty of Jesus, the moment28:44 you see that, you cannot but sing. You cannot but rejoice. I'm going to ask you this question, are you crying or are you singing in this season of your28:56 life? You know a man was coming back from work and plunged the car that he was driving plunged into the Parramatta River. And the29:07 paramedics came and tried to save as much as they can and they brought him out and 1 of them apologized to him and said, Sir, we are so sorry. We can only save you.29:20 We couldn't save the car, the car is lost. The man immediately cried, Oh my Mercedes! And the paramedic apologized again and said, Sir, we couldn't salvage29:32 anything from your car. All the contents are gone. He said, Oh, my laptop. Sir, when we were rescuing you, 1 of your arms got29:43 stuck so we lost your arm. Oh, my Rolex. We cry over things that don't matter. I want you to listen29:55 to me carefully. Look above, the Bible says, for whatever you're going through in this temporal season in your life is nothing compared to the weight of the eternal30:07 glory that you have in Christ. That is why can I humbly say this? To the saint, Jesus is the returning king unto glory.30:18 Look at what how the bible finishes this. The bible says, what makes Jesus worth following it? He he is the 1 who is the returning king. Look at him. Behold, he is coming with the clouds and every30:30 eye will see him and even those who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so, amen. Behold, he is coming. That's why you and I, we are called to30:42 look. See, the book of Revelation is all about look and listen. Look. Don't miss it. Don't get distracted. Don't get caught up in those earthly things. Look, he's coming30:54 and he's coming on the clouds. The bible says in acts chapter 1 and verse 9 and verse 11. Verse 11 says, Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will come31:06 in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. The last time the disciple saw Jesus was when he was taken up into glory. And as he was ascended into heaven, look at verse31:18 9, it says, a cloud took him out of their sight. Hallelujah. A cloud took him out of their sight. Now, the bible says, a cloud will bring him back. Behold, he is coming31:30 with the clouds. I want you to think about this. Matthew chapter 24 and verse 30. The bible says, they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven31:42 with power and great glory. Hallelujah. When he comes back, he's not coming back as the savior. He's coming back as the judge. He's coming back with great31:53 glory that has been given to him. He's been highly exalted. He's been given the name above every other name and at his name, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. And when he32:05 comes, he comes with great power and great glory. Hallelujah. That's why in Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 28, the bible says, Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will32:17 appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Hallelujah. Read that last line, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him. Are you32:29 waiting for Him? If you're eagerly waiting for Him, He's coming to save you to the uttermost. In other words, He wants, He will come and He will complete that work of salvation32:41 in our lives. Hallelujah. Oh, the glory of God. Now you and I, as people of God, we need to take courage. You know, the bible says those who are eagerly waiting.32:53 Does that mean that we pack our bags and go to a highlands or go to 1 of the countryside and and and just live there, just wait for the coming of the Lord and No. No. No. As people of God, you and I have33:05 to get busy with the will of God. What does he do? What how do we wait eagerly? We wait like this. John chapter 9 and verse 4, the bible says, we must33:17 work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no 1 can work. In other words, just like Jesus said about himself, I must work the works of him who sent me. You and I are33:29 supposed to do the work of God. Are you engaged in the work of God? That is how you eagerly wait. Don't be found as a servant who is is slothful,33:40 who missed the point and he was lazy and did not exercise stewardship, did not exercise servanthood, did not do the master's will. Don't be like that servant because when he comes, it33:52 is too late already. Hallelujah. The bible says, go back to that verse in Revelation chapter 1 and verse 7, he says, Behold, he is coming34:04 with the clouds. Every eye will see him. You know the reason why they are making the whole world come under internet? The whole world Internet34:16 is everywhere now. And that's the dream of many people. To put Internet all over the world so everyone with a gadget will be able to connect and be able to receive instant information. The Bible says34:28 when he comes, he doesn't need any technology church, when he appears they will all know he has come. Hallelujah. I want you to listen to me carefully. Even those who pierced Him, even34:40 the ones who rejected Him. You know there was only 1 guy who pierced Jesus. But the Bible says even those who pierced Him, in some ways you and I pierced Him. In some ways, our sin is the 1 that caused him to34:52 be pierced. So we will look at him, the 1 who is pierced. Not only that, all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Everyone will start to weep. They are wailing. Why?35:04 Because time has run out. There is no more repentance. If you haven't been saved by that time when he comes again in his glory, there is no more repentance. Whatever your35:16 state you are in, you'll be in that state forever. Let that sink in. If you're unsaved, you will be unsaved forever. If you are35:27 saved and you have been waiting for him and you've been doing his will, you'll be saved forever. That is why there will be a lot of people who will be wailing that day.35:39 But I want to encourage you church, are you trusting in the Lord in this season? Are you getting ready for Him? There's a promise for you as He begins to finish this section.35:51 He says in verse 8, I am the Alpha and Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. See Jesus is saying here, I'm the Alpha and Omega. In other36:03 words, He is the beginning and the end. What He created in Genesis, He is going to consummate in Revelation and everything is going to bring to consummation in Christ Jesus.36:15 What He began, He is going to complete it. In other words, He is the sovereign Lord. He says, I have authority to begin it. I have authority to finish it. That's the God you and I worship. Hallelujah.36:27 And the bible says, he's not only the God who has the authority, he's the God who is always. The bible says, who was, who is, who was, and who is to come. In other words, he is the God who is always36:39 If he is always, he is always loving, he is always kind, he is always generous, he is always for you. Hallelujah. That you will come to repentance in Christ Jesus. And the bible says he36:51 is the almighty. In other words, he has the ability to do. It's the Hebrew word El Shaddai. He is the El Shaddai, a mighty God, powerful God who is able to do all things. Can I37:03 humbly say this? Come back to Him. If you are a seeker, Jesus is the faithful witness unto truth. If you are a sinner, Jesus is the loving37:15 Redeemer unto salvation. If you are a saint, Jesus is the returning King unto Glory. Hallelujah! Let me give you some questions to examine this37:26 morning. Are you searching for the truth? If you are searching for the truth, I want you to take the next step. There are Alpha groups that you can join where you can explore the claims of Christ. You can understand why37:38 Christ came, why He gave us the Bible, why do we read it, why do we attend a church, why do we do all these things. I want to read through the faithful witness so that you can understand the37:50 truth. Hallelujah. Are you washed and freed by his blood? I want you to examine yourself this morning. Am I free or am I still bound by sin? Am I still38:02 bound by addictions? Am I truly free? Because whom the Son sets free is free indeed. And I want you to listen to me, unless you're washed by the blood of the lamb, you cannot enter38:14 into the kingdom of God. It'll be too late. Are you ready for his coming? If you're a saint I want to ask you this question. Are you ready for His coming? And when He comes you know what He38:26 wants to find? He wants to find that you and I are doing His will. That's why don't procrastinate. Don't be a person who says, I don't want to lead a life group. Oh, don't want to break, lead the small38:38 group. I don't want to be accountable. I don't want to do this. No, no. This is the time for you to step up and do what God is calling you to do. You know what God is asking you to do. If he's asking you to reach your38:49 neighbor, do it. If he's asking you to talk to that coworker, do it. If he's asking you to forgive that relative, forgive. If he's asking you to reconcile within your marriage, reconcile. If he's asking you to lead a39:00 small group, lead. If He is asking you to share the gospel with your children, do it. Today is the day. Do not delay it because39:12 eternity, the eternal eternity of people's lives are at stake. Story was told, this is covered by CNN, a man by the name of VijayShow more In this video 0:00 The Incomparable ChristComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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