Revelation 21:1-8, Born to Reign - Revision history

Wakefien: /* Memory Verse: Matthew 1:23 he virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). */

2023-12-02T23:09:30Z

‎Memory Verse: Matthew 1:23 he virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

Wakefien: /* The promise of King Jesus is a promise to redeem. */

2023-11-30T17:16:28Z

‎The promise of King Jesus is a promise to redeem.

Wakefien: /* MTR: This Christmas share the promise of King Jesus. */

2023-11-29T15:03:43Z

‎MTR: This Christmas share the promise of King Jesus.

Wakefien: /* Those who have a personal relationship with Jesus are destined for the reunion together (21:3-4). */

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‎Those who have a personal relationship with Jesus are destined for the reunion together (21:3-4).

Wakefien: /* Body */

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‎Body

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‎Body

Wakefien: /* The promise of King Jesus is a promise of eternal life. */

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‎The promise of King Jesus is a promise of eternal life.

Wakefien: /* The promise of King Jesus is a promise of eternal life. */

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‎The promise of King Jesus is a promise of eternal life.

Wakefien: /* God will right all that is wrong. */

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‎God will right all that is wrong.

Wakefien: /* Setting the Stage: */

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‎Setting the Stage:

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-===Memory Verse: Matthew 1:23 he virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).===
+===Memory Verse: Matthew 1:23 The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).===
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-We must recognize and celebrate the redemption of Christ that was purchased not with God and silver but "with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." 1 Peter 1:18-19.
+We must recognize and celebrate the redemption of Christ that was purchased not with gold and silver but "with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." 1 Peter 1:18-19.
 ===The promise of King Jesus is a promise of eternal life.===

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 ===MTR: This Christmas remind yourself that the present is temporary and all will be made new.===
-==Those who have a personal relationship with Jesus are destined for the reunion together (21:3-4).==
+==Those who have a personal relationship with Jesus are destined for the ultimate reunion together (21:3-4).==
 ===Image: your choices reflect your priorities.===
 The choices that you make reflect your priorities. This really is true. I want to eat healthy but I will admit if I am at a restaurant I don't usually consider the salad. My choice betrays that eating something tasty is a higher priority than eating something healthy.

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-Let me read to you from Revelation 21:1-7 and as I read try to picture the scene.
+Let me read to you from Revelation 21:1-8 and as I read try to picture the scene.
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 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
-He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Re 21:1–7.</ref>
+He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Re 21:1–8.</ref>
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 ===The promise of King Jesus is a promise of eternal life.===
-In verse 6 Jesus states "I am Alpha and Omega." The greek letter alpha is the first in the alphabet and the letter omega is the last. The phrase is fully explained for us next, beginning and end. The reminder is a reminder of eternality. I will be honest, eternity is the part of theology I struggle with the most. I understand, at least well enough for my own understanding, the existence of God, salvation, grace, etc. don't pretend to have free-choice and predestination figured out but I have ideas on it. I have worked through many of the textual difficulties in the Bible and understand those. I even feel like I understand God's wrath. What I just cannot make sense of is eternity. How in the world am I not going to get bored? If you asked me what about theology takes the most faith for me, my answer is that it takes an incredible amount of faith for me to accept that I am not going to get bored in eternity. Why? Because I realize that God has promised something I cannot fathom.
+In verse 6 Jesus states "I am Alpha and Omega." The greek letter alpha is the first in the alphabet and the letter omega is the last. The phrase is fully explained for us next, beginning and end. The reminder is a reminder of eternality. I will be honest, eternity is the part of theology I struggle with the most. I understand, at least well enough for my own understanding, the existence of God, salvation, grace, etc. I don't pretend to have free-choice and predestination figured out but I have ideas on it. I have worked through many of the textual difficulties in the Bible and understand those. I even feel like I understand God's wrath. What I just cannot make sense of is eternity. How in the world am I not going to get bored? If you asked me what about theology takes the most faith for me, my answer is that it takes an incredible amount of faith for me to accept that I am not going to get bored in eternity. Why? Because I realize that God has promised something I cannot fathom.
 The promise that King Jesus has made to you is that if you have accepted that Jesus died on the cross for your sin and his payment is sufficient. If you have placed your faith in Christ's death on the cross, then you have been promised eternal life. The one who is himself the beginning and the end has made his promise to you and that promise it eternal life lived with him!

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 As I was thinking through this verse a few weeks ago I had a thought. How much of my time is spent dealing with the consequences of the curse. My foot hurts today, why because I broke it a nearly two months ago. I am debating about how much exercise to do. I don't want to really do it today but I know that I should because my body is only getting older. I really need to take care of the weeds growing up outside sometime soon. The list goes on and I can't help but wonder, how much free time am I going to have when the effects of the curse are gone!
-When I first stated "God will right all that is wrong" I was thinking big, you know murder, theft, etc. But the big things are actually insignificant, it is a,l the little wrongs that I will notice most. And all those little wrongs that get in the way of a relationship. Wow! I cannot wait to see what life is like without wrong in the world.
+When I first stated "God will right all that is wrong" I was thinking big, you know murder, theft, etc. But the big things are actually insignificant, it is all the little wrongs that I will notice most. And all those little wrongs that get in the way of a relationship. Wow! I cannot wait to see what life is like without wrong in the world.
 ===MTR: This Christmas celebrate together in anticipation of truly being together.===

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 ==Setting the Stage:==
-The revelation given to John and recorded in the book of Revelation is notoriously hard to interpret. However, not everything about the book is difficult. In fact, there are some aspects of Revelation that are really fairly simple to interpret. Today, we are going to take some low hanging fruit. Please turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 21. We are going to look at verses 1-4.
+The revelation given to John and recorded in the book of Revelation is notoriously hard to interpret. However, not everything about the book is difficult. In fact, there are some aspects of Revelation that are really fairly simple to interpret. Today, we are going to take some low hanging fruit. Please turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 21. We are going to look at verses 1-8.
 Revelation chapter 20 concluded with judgement. judgement passed on Satan, and judgement on those who were spiritually dead. In both cases, the destiny is simple. The lake of fire. Satan and those who are spiritually dead are cast into the lake of fire where they are tormented for ever.