The Book Of Revelation Verse by Verse (Pt1): Chapter One - The Revelation of Jesus Christ

We want to welcome you to the

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of Revelation

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, that may be a little optimistic because we often do go concept by concept or else we will never get out of the

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at all, but we will be studying this. book verse by verse and I need you to understand something that your generation has a specific mastery over this book, this book has more relevance to you than to any other generation since we studied this book and as we go through this book verse by verse, one thing I want you to know from the beginning, so that you know that when we come to the end of each service, we will talk about the nation of Israel, we will talk a lot about the Jewish people and that is why at the end of each service we will receive an offering, a portion of which for every offering will go towards the preaching of the gospel in the nation of Israel and that is a blessing and if you are interested in going to Israel with us, all you have to do is visit meet today.com to sow a seed in God's work in Israel or to learn more about how you can go with us to the Holy Land because we have an upcoming trip just for you, everyone said amen, open your Bibles with me to the book of Revelation the book of Revelation

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number one who we are we are the generation of

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who we are this book divides believers into two categories: those who cannot seem to get into the book and those who cannot seem to get out of the book, it divides Christians into fearful and fanatical, but One thing is certain: the devil hates this book.

Someone says that the devil hates this book. Genesis exposes him, but

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condemns him and does not allow him to lie. you this is potentially the most important book in the entire Bible you would not stop reading a good book in the final

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you would not abandon a good movie in the last 30 minutes this book is the climax it is the crescendo it is the pinnacle of God's work, the manifestation of the fullness of everything that you have been working towards and it is the most important book in the Bible, is it any wonder that the devil has done everything he can to keep people out of this book? a hidden book people think it is a book full of mysteries do not be fooled by it the Bible says in first Corinthians chapter number 13 that our God is not the author of confusion this book is not a book of confusion I said this book is not It is a book of confusion in fact the enemy is the God of confusion to say that the book of Revelation is confusing is equivalent to saying that Satan is the author of it Satan is not the author of this book Jesus is the author of this book the saint ghost the father who is in heaven is the author of this book and he has written it just for you without this book there is no conclusion to the story there is no they lived happily ever after there is no end there is no Amen but in this book Can you imagine?

If the Bible ended with Judas? Some of you don't even know what Jude says, but it wouldn't be a good picture if it just ended with Jude. We need the whole story to be finished. God would never design anything with intention. to confuse you God would never design anything to scare you 1 Corinthians not 13 but 1433 says that he is not the author of confusion, we often approach this book with an assumption of difficulty that guarantees that I was at some point for a period of time very short. Trying a free month of a very difficult workout routine was like a boot camp style workout of a circuit training type and it was exhausting the kind that would make you want to lose your lunch and even what I'm talking about, how many of you are blessed because you don't know what I'm no man worth and we get to the end the final part of the circuit the end of the workout I'm exhausted and we get to the part where I have to put those weights I put them on my chest and I lift them up and I take them and I lift those weights once, but when I get to the second time I just can't do it, it's too heavy, I'm exhausted and every attempt to lift it exhausts me.

I'm not even getting more capable of lifting it every time I try I'm getting less capable right because I'm getting worn down with each attempt and the trainer that was there with me the personal trainer said and just wait let me take some of these weights off and I'm bent over I'm trying to catch my breath he says okay now try this this will be easy for you and I took those weights and I lifted them and then one two three four five times and I put it back on the rack and he said sure it was easy and I looked it added more weight it didn't take away weight it added more weight but I thought it was lighter the presumption of difficulty the assumption of complexity takes us to a place When we open this book we are already confused before we even start reading it, but the reality is that you can read it, you can understand it, in fact, this is the only book that promises a blessing to those who read it and a curse to those who read it. try to remove it or add it people say well, you know, I don't need to understand the book of Revelation because I'm not going to be here.

The problem with that is that Jesus said you must keep the sayings in this book. Are you going to keep the sayings in the book if you don't know what it says? Excuse me because I make a lot of sense. How many of you were reading the book of Revelation for your quiet time this week? Just most people without some kind of push, avoid it completely, but the Bible says here, read, keep the sayings of this book and you will be blessed. How many of you could be blessed a little more? So let's start the book of Revelation chapter 1 and verse 1 and just read.

I'm not going to stop this is hard this is hard for me we're just going to get right to it and then we'll come back and break it down as best we can verse by verse or concept by concept Revelation chapter 1 and verse 1 the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave to show to his servants the things that must soon happen and he sent and declared it by his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ and everything. things he saw blessed is he who reads and those who hear oh I tell you right now it is happening in it we are obeying this passage of scripture it is happening right now everyone says blessed blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep the things that are written in it because the time is near John to the seven churches that are in Asia grace be to you peace from him who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before his throne and Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness and the firstborn of the dead and the Prince of the kings of the earth, who loved us, who washed us from our sins with his own blood and made us kings and priests to God and his father be to him glory and dominion forever and ever and the church said: behold, he is coming with the clouds and every eye will see him and also those who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him.

Thus, amen, I am. Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end says Jehovah who is and who was and who is to come the Almighty I John, who am also your brother and companion in the tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that It is called Patmos by the word of God and by the testimony of Jesus Christ and I was in the spirit on the day of the Lord and I heard behind me a great voice like a trumpet saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last and write whatever you see in a book and send it to the seven churches that are in Asia to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea and I turned to see the voice that spoke with me and turning I saw seven golden lampstands and in the middle Of the seven lampstands, one like the Son of Man, clothed with a cloak down to the feet and girded around the chest with a golden sash, his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire. fire on his feet like fine bronze as if it were burning in a furnace and his voice like the noise of many waters and he had in his right hand seven stars and two sharp stars came out of his mouth. sharp sword and his face was like the sun shining ahthe in his strength and when I saw him I fell at his feet as if dead and he put his right hand on me saying do not be afraid for I am the first and the last I am the that lives. and I was dead and behold I am Alive forever and ever amen and I have the keys to hell and death write the things you have seen and the things that are and the things that will be in the future the mystery of the Seven Stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven candlesticks that you saw are the seven churches let us pray father we thank you because your word is a lamp to our feet that is a light for our path illuminate this for us night illuminate our path so that we do not stumble in the darkness of this day but find our way around the snares and traps of the enemy your word says that all Scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable as we approach the study of this book We thank you today because this book is inspired and it is profitable for us to receive all its benefits and walk in it for the Advancement of your kingdom in the name of Jesus everyone said amen and amen the Bible is the most unique history book in all literature and goes back further than any book and much further forward than any other book the book of revelation is a unique book.

I believe it is the greatest work of literature known to man at first glance. It may seem complicated, but it was written for ordinary people, everyone says, like you, it was not written for theological professionals, not for doctrinal Aryans who are studying for their theological thesis, it was written for ordinary people, for the people of the seven churches, that is. now, in what is called Western Turkey, they were not highly educated, they did not have what we would call a fifth grade education, they were just normal people, yet it was written for ordinary people a long time ago in a very, very far away, just like us.

It's good to look at their culture to try to put ourselves in their shoes and understand who they are talking to and what they are going through, but we shouldn't complicate it too much. This book was written for a practical purpose, it was not written to satisfy your curiosity. about future events if that's the way you read it then don't read it it was written very simply to prepare you for what's coming everyone says preparation just mention the future so you can be prepared for it when you understand that then you will understand the meaning of everything in this book doesn't matter what it is if someone asked you tomorrow even though we're not there yet if they asked you well what the seven heads and the ten horns mean you could say I can tell you exactly what they mean, get ready, what does the little horn mean ?

I'll tell you what it means, you better get ready Jesus is coming, everyone says, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready I once said these three They are still Faith, Hope and Love, and the weakest of them is hope because the church focuses a lot on love, it focuses a lot on faith, but we often lack hope, hope, not a desire for whatever to happen. what do you want. Biblical hope is what you know is going to happen.

This type of hope anchors you in difficult times. I want you to understand this. What we know is going to happen anchors us when the unexpected happens. What we know is going to happen stabilizes us when the unexpected happens. It happens that's why this book begins and ends with a warning that Jesus is coming oh how we need him oh how we need him in our culture today even in our political system have you noticed that every election, even here in America, is increasingly more and more messianic? this is the one that's going to fix all of this this is the one that's going to make the oceans stop rising and temperatures drop oh no this is the one that's going to drain the swamp and corrupt it let me help all of you on each side of the aisle None of them are the one, but there is one who is going to fix everything and he will come soon and very soon someone will say Amen in hallelujah as the darkness intensifies, the church will need this blessed hope more than anything else. in the world so let's walk together through this revelation Revelation chapter number 1 chapter number 1 and verse number 1 this is what the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him says you never saw it before this is not the revelation of Jesus from John this is Jesus revelation that was given to him by the father this is a vision of a personal conversation between God the Father and God the Son that was later transmitted to John keep your place here in Revelation chapter 1 and turn with me to John chapter 16 very quickly chapter of John 16 we now have an extensive teaching on the first chapters of the book of Revelation now on our YouTube channel.

I've made them free for the moment, they won't be forever, so if you go to our meet today YouTube channel, search for Allen on YouTube or if you search for meet Christchurch on YouTube you'll see our meet today channel and click on lists of play and there you will see a playlist titled the book of Revelation that I just created and when you go there to the book of Revelation You will have a series of seven messages, almost six hours of teaching, an introduction to the book and then the seven churches of Revelation, because next weekPossibly, depending on how this goes tonight, we'll pick up at the end of that in Chapter four, but I'll see how things go because the teachings of Jesus are very important there and those first three chapters are God's most important message to the world. church today in your Bible and you need to know it, so do it.

I'm sure you'll take advantage of it John chapter 16 are you there okay? I am NOT who we are, you better believe it John chapter 16 and verse number 13 if you dare to say yes, however, when he speaks of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth or revelation when He, the spirit of revelation, has come, he will guide you to all revelation, for he will not speak by himself, but everything he will hear, he will speak and will show you things to come, he will glorify me because he will receive what is mine and will show you. everything the father has is mine, that's why I said he will take of mine and show you what promise fulfilled here in Revelation 1 and verse 1 Jesus makes this amazing promise everything the father has belongs to him I and I will send you the Holy Spirit and he will reveal it to you revelation is the currency of the kingdom possession comes by revelation you cannot have something until it is revealed to you everything you need to want or desire from it has already been provided in Christ Jesus the question is whether it has been revealed to you or not at the moment the covering is removed that is what revelation means removing a covering or some people call this apocalypse will discuss the terminology of the end times and a coming service apocalypse simply means uncovering and revealing for remove the cover, isn't it interesting?

The only book called discover, reveal, reveal is the one we believe is mysterious, hidden and cannot be understood. It sounds like something the devil would make you admit you are a liar. This book belongs to you and Jesus said everything the Father told me I no longer call you servants John 15 verse 15 because the servant does not know what the Lord is doing but I have called you friends because everything I have heard from my Father I am doing to you knowing how important it is in our lives to be able to listen to the Holy Spirit to show us don't go that way, don't do that, don't say that or here is Jesus, you are the answer to everything.

The prayer you will ever pray is a revelation from Jesus that is so vitally important that you don't need to pay your bill, you need a revelation from Jesus and that revelation will flood over you and pour over you like a waterfall and wash away your dead and pay . your bill we have to realign our focus Revelation chapter 1 and verse 1 the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave to show to his servants listen to me you have the God-given right to understand this book this book was written for you Why who are we ? This book was written for you.

You have the right to understand it when you opened it. You must open it with the confidence that this book belongs to me. I have the right to understand this book and I will get it all. I can come out of him, hallelujah, to show his servants the things that must happen soon, say that he is coming soon, he sent and manifested it by his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all the things that he saw blessed is he who reads blessed means empowered to prosper empowered to prosper empowered to overcome as he who reads and he who hears the words of this prophecy and keeps the things that are written in it because the time is near John to the seven churches that are in Asia grace and peace be upon you from him who was and from him who is to come and from the seven spirits of God who are before his throne and from Jesus Christ here and the first verses of the Apocalypse that we read that the Trinity is revealed to us in all its glory Father Son and Holy Spirit mentions the seven spirits of God it is reiterated again in the book of Revelation we will discuss it in later services or in those messages that you can find on our YouTube Channel the seven spirits of God is the seven manifestations of the Holy Spirit the seven aspects of the personality of the Holy Spirit and you can study that with us as we go through this study, but this is what it says I want you to get it says it was written by John John do you understand the apostle John the man who was closer to Jesus than any other human being on the face of the earth John knew him better than anyone John supported him he was the oldest remaining disciple being with him on the cross is of vital importance to John for the ministry of Jesus that in his last moments Jesus looks at John and says: here is your mother and Jesus entrusted the care of Mary to the apostle John John, who went and took charge of the shepherd.

In Ephesus John, as you will study in those messages that we have on YouTube, was a political prisoner on the island of Patmos, 20 miles off the coast of Ephesus, there, among murderers and thieves, he found himself in a small cave and the Bible says that he was in the spirit on the Day of the Lord but this is very important before we continue this book was written by a man who was suffering politically because of the revelation of Jesus Christ and it was written for people who were suffering politically and socially because of his testimony of Jesus Christ What does that mean?

It means that the truth of this book is really only open to those who suffer for the love of Christ. Calamity clarifies comfort confuses How often have you found yourself in your life where you were so comfortable that you confused your priorities but then something? Bad things happen now, don't get me wrong, God does not send diseases or calamities into your life, but we bring them on ourselves, can't we and the enemy help us too? And when he does, which happens suddenly, we go back. the church suddenly we were writing down things we knew we shouldn't have suddenly got our priorities right calamity clarifies comfort confuses the american church may have trouble understanding this but there are persecuted believers all over the world who appreciate the book of Revelation and use it as an anchor for their troubled souls in difficult times intellectuals theologians struggle with its revelation but those who live it find blessing in its pages those who are willing to bravely resist persecution those who are willing to say what God says to those who God says to say it and they care less what they think about it can find comfort and revelation in these pages chapter 1 and verse 9 I John who am also your brother and companion in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in the patience of Jesus Christ what does that mean patience of Jesus means waiting on Jesus I am your companion we are all waiting for him he was on the island of Patmos for the word of God mark chapter 4 says affliction and persecution arises because of the words and for the testimony of Jesus Christ Leonard Ravenhill once said that if Jesus preached what today's preachers preach, he would never have been crucified said John said I like um suffer for my testimony hmm I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day three possibilities as to what the Lord's Day can mean three possibilities that I will give you from the least likely to the most likely or the least accepted to the most accepted number one when Domitian became emperor and assumed power he demanded that once a year everyone offer an offering of incense.

He demanded that everyone call him Lord Caesar Lord and God and worship him and since he wanted to be declared Lord that a time of the year would be called the Lord's Day the day on which he must be declared Lord and some would say that it was that day that John had this revelation that Jesus is Lord. It is certainly possible. Another possibility is that the Day of the Lord is a reference to the day of the Lord, as mentioned throughout biblical prophecy, which is the day of his triumph, the day of his glorious second coming, when he conquers all. . from the enemies and he establishes his kingdom, that is the day of the Lord or the Day of the Lord, but more likely than any of the others it is simply the Day of the Lord, that is, the day on which the early church would worship and celebrate, We often get it wrong and we get things mixed up and we think we worship on the Sabbath, we don't actually worship on the Sabbath, the Sabbath is the Saturday night from Friday to Saturday night, we worship on the Lord's Day because that is the day of his resurrection, a celebration of his resurrection when we no longer have a day that is holy, every day is holy, hallelujah, and so on the Lord's Day, although there was no church in sight, in fact on the island On Patmos there was a temple to the goddess Diana and everyone was even ordered to worship there and there was a power struggle according to some extra-biblical sources where John faced the worshipers of Diana and God manifested his great power and saw many converts on the island In fact, it is said that when John left the island of Patmos many cried and cried.

The prisoners who were on that island because they would miss him, what a powerful testimony he had even there, because in that cave he was in the spirit on the Lord's Day. Let's continue reading, starting with verse number 12. Hallelujah. You are enjoying this and I turned to see the voice. We are here. about to see Jesus as we had never seen him before, I turned to see the voice that spoke to me and when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands and in the middle of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man dressed in a mantle to the feet and girded around him. on his chest with a golden sash, his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow, his eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like fine bronze, as if burned in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters, and he had in his right hand seven stars and from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword and his face was like the sun the earth and his strength shone and when I saw him I fell at his feet as if dead and he laid his hand on me saying don't be afraid, I am the first and I am the last now this is fascinating here we have the only physical description of Jesus recorded in the entire Bible and it is appropriate that the apostle John is the one who writes it because as we said before no one knew him better than John the The Bible says that it was John who put his head on Jesus' chest.

It sounds strange to you, but they ate around a very crowded table. There were no chairs and they all leaned in one direction. They all leaned on each other. Your feet, in fact, I would be here. your chest and my feet would be there on the person that's why they washed your feet your feet on someone's face when you're eating but he was the one that Jesus would have right next to him Jesus said I'm going to have a man right next to me to listen all I have to say to know what I'm going through.

I know Juan and how many of you know that if you were Juan you would never forget that face. John had seen him wipe the blindness from Bartimaeus' eyes. Juan had seen him cry in the middle of the night and pray until the sweat became so profuse. drops of blood John saw him transfigured John was with him on the cross John was there and saw him in his resurrection splendor but he was not prepared for what he was about to see he was about to see it in a way that he had never seen before all this it can alter your theology he was the same but very different you are the same person you were when you were in kindergarten but you are very different we have problems with this you know why the Bible says that Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever and the Jesus of the gospels is the Jesus to me he is not the same that is not who he is entirely the Bible says that Jesus while he was on this earth grew in wisdom and favor and stature and now here in the book of Revelation he is an adult the rock Dwayne Johnson Arnold sees Anaka they are the same as they were when they were 5 years old but if you met them when they were 5 years old and then you met them on the street today it would be very different I find how many of you would know that it is true they are the same but they are different Juan He knew him better than anyone else and yet when he sees him now he is terrified he falls to the dust like a dead man this Jesus is very different from the In the Gospels we all agree that Jesus is our example.

The question is which Jesus is an example of Howard. Is he what some would perceive as the vengeful God of the Old Testament? Is he the loving one who forgives everyone? The Jesus of the Gospels. Is it the Jesus? of the epistles that demands excommunication is that the violent Jesus of the book of revelation where the Prophet said looking into the future even in the Old Testament seeing who this is with dyed garments from Basra and they asked him why are your garments red and he said: I have been trampling on my enemies and it is the blood of my enemies that Jesus WWJD What would Jesus do?

The book of Revelation is the only book in the Bible that gives us a true picture of who he really is to give us a description of him in the Gospels to give us a physical description of him, it would be irrelevant if you had seen him at the time, if This is a description of who he is eternally. What if I told you that the signs of a violent Savior are all over the New Testament? We have just had the image of him so whitened, so diluted, that the propaganda campaign has been so successful in making.

He makes it palpable to a misguided generation who have managed to castrate him and imagine him as an effeminate being with a limp wrist and pale skin walking the cobblestone streets of Jerusalem kissing women and making them jump.Babies on your knee. Mark Gali rightly points out that there is a Gumby. like the flexibility given to Jesus in the modern Church where he goes out of his way, this Jesus, this Savior, to be kind, always welcoming, always inviting, always affirming as we mock the long-haired evangelist on the street with a sign that says repent because the end is near.

What if we are wrong? What if the message and ministry of Jesus are more closely connected to the radical on the street than to the volunteer at the soup kitchen? What if we have missed him? eyes and saw the Jesus of the New Testament who really is someone who would never sugarcoat his message, especially to those closest to him, what if we found a Jesus who came in and out of people's lives making implicit demands and, in general, making everyone uncomfortable? The truth is that you will find a man who strictly orders. the people he heals are furious with the religious leaders he kills a herd of pigs without repentance or compensation he calls the sadducees ignorant he describes an entire generation as infidels he rebukes his closest friend and calls him a demon he often frightens people with his miracles and he scared his friends and the way he dealt with storms his inner circle was literally terrified by the Transfiguration he started a riot in the temple and knocked down the money chambers not once twice dear God, what do you think would define your life if you spent your entire life being? loving and lovey-dovey and caring about everyone and then he walked into the United States Senate and started flipping over tables and hitting people with a whip.

What do you think would define your life as the defining moment and then what would happen if you did it again twice? You would scare me when you say the worst happened. I don't like the way you're talking about my Jesus. You're scaring me so much. Now you know how terrified John was at the sight of it, let alone what was about to happen. aspect oh this is so important Jesus is meek and wild who we are he is the living water but he is also the consuming fire he calls a storm but it is a raging storm that saves or destroys everything in its path or you were following him and it will break or he will fall upon you and you will be crushed.

This aspect of divinity that we thought was locked away in the Old Testament has always been there throughout the Gospels and the Epistles finally revealed for who he is in the book of Revelation. Any Dillard rightly states that in general I don't think Christians are sensitive enough to their conditions. Does anyone have the slightest idea what kind of power we so gleefully invoke? Does anyone have any idea what kind of power we invoke when we say the name? of Jesus, do you even know when you say at the end of your prayer in the name of Jesus who you are invoking?

Aren't you invoking the long, thin, tanned Galilean who hugs people at the seashore? fire and a sharp two-edged sword comes out of his mouth. After all, who do you want to fight for you, the one who bounces the baby on his knees or the one who has a sword coming out of his mouth when you pray in the name of Jesus? coming against the forces of darkness and you don't just have a lamb sitting by your side, you have the Lion of the tribe of Judah sitting by your side. Any Dillard went on to say that churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry. mixes a batch of TNT, said it's crazy for ladies to wear straw hats to church, we should all wear crash helmets, we should strap ourselves to the pews and prepare for what's coming because he's tame and wild and the story from The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe hear about Aslan for the first time that he is a lion and they say he is safe and they said ho, it's not safe, no, he's not safe, but he's good, no It means that God is not loved. but I think it is fair to say that we have become deaf to the richest parts of the symphony of love and what love really is.

Do you realize that hell is love when you think about the goodness of God? Do you realize that hell is the goodness of God? After all, is it good to punish evil? We have created for ourselves an image of it that makes us warm and comfortable and it is time for us to have a revelation, we hear the melody played by the strings but ignore the brass, the winds and especially the percussion sections. We don't notice the strong harmonies, the counterpoint, the dissonant chords because it's just nicer and we have a nice little melody and it feels good and it stays in our head, but there are more calls, well, turn with me very quickly to the book of Matthew chapter 16 and I think this is where we will conclude our teaching tonight Matthew chapter 16 paster you should forgive me because that is what Jesus would do that's right, he would forgive you but then he would throw you away until you repent read the epistles it is important that we understand This notion of That we should seek love is generally a means of seeking lack of responsibility because if you love you will forgive me, yes, but if you knew the love of God you would be on your knees saying how I hurt you, what he did to you.

I do and how can I do it well Matthew 16 that is what love does Matthew 16 and verse number 13 when Jesus came to the shores of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying who do men say that I am the Son of Man and they he said some say you are John the Baptist some Elijah and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets and he said but who do you say I am Simon Peter responded and said you are the Christ please understand the implications of that statement it means Messiah it means the The coming king that will conquer Peter here is glimpsing the revelation that John received the son of the Living God and Jesus answered and said: Blessed, do you see?

The same thing is happening here that was happening in Revelation chapter one and verse 3, Blessed be He. the one who hears the one who reads the one who hears the one who keeps these saying blessed art thou simon barjona now let's see what that blessing looks like for flesh and blood it was not revealed to you but my father who is in heaven and I tell you you who are Peter and on this rock or on this revelation or could I accurately say on the book of revelation I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and I will give you the keys of the kingdom. from heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven the book of revelation is not about the Anti

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it is not about the false prophet or the ten great heads are seven heads and ten horns is about Jesus and who he is you will not have a victorious Christian life without a revelation of Jesus Christ let me be more specific without this revelation of Jesus Christ that we are talking about tonight three legs for a revelation for whose understanding Jesus If you remove one of them, you will fall or I will push it easily.

It is this and in the Gospels we see him as Savior and in the epistles we see him as Lord and in the book of Revelation we see him as king, you take away anyone. from those revelations you have an insufficient revelation an unbalanced revelation of who Jesus is and this Jesus has always been there from the beginning of his ministry and the Gospel of Mark when he tells a deranged man to shut up and then causes him more irritation than pain . on the floor before being released sternly warns a blind man who has just been cured to keep his mouth shut and then throws him out of the room to relatives mourning the death of his son often becoming exasperated with the crowd irritated by the disciples, he curses a victory, his attitude towards authorities is often disrespectful, he calls men names like Fox, blank Ives, whitewashed tombs, these are not the scriptures we normally sit and meditate on, why what to waste time?

If you keep reading, you will find something motivating or inspiring. It is not necessary to think about this Jesus, but keep in mind that he is he. If you have been fascinated by the religion of kindness, you will be afraid of this revelation from Jesus. Most are simply afraid of conflict. Jesus is not most attempts at love are attempts to avoid conflict Jesus never avoids conflict, he is often rude, sarcastic and degrading to those who resist what he has to say because he loves them and he loves you , and sometimes people also need to be rude, this is not an excuse for you. being rude to your spouse or your children or your parents this is an excuse for you to allow him to be rude to you would you allow him to do that?

Would you allow him to interrupt you in the middle of your prayers? I'll shut you up' You're making things worse, he will if you let him, if you don't let him, then you'll keep talking nonsense and making your life worse. One of the most important questions you could ask yourself is: will I allow it? God to be honest with me one thing is to be honest with God and another thing is to let him be honest with you and he does not tell you the truth with novocaine unfortunately we take the sword from Jesus we turn it into a plow and we give him Go back and tell him: be kind, but the moment you tame Jesus, he will no longer be there.

All you have now is religion, all you have now are our good works, but you don't have a savior who can reign over any situation you put him in. It's okay to ask yourself false guilt, unholy fear, and debilitating shame, but there's still plenty of real guilt left. Pious fear and healthy shame. We have expelled those from the church and yet those are the feelings that move us. Those feelings make us feel so uncomfortable. I'm not talking about the condemnation that the enemy places on you. I'm talking about the fear of God. I'm talking about the convicting power of the Holy Spirit that is far more dominant than any condemnation anyone can impose on you.

The pain of these pious feelings, the pain they inflict, are meant to bring us discomfort to move us to illuminate what areas of our lives need fixing, so the question is: are you willing to make it the king of kings of your life? Are you willing to see it like? He is every head bowed, every eye closed, father, we come before you now, not everyone is ready to make this commitment, but some of us are ready to see you as you are, even if it means a dynamic change in our lives, show us God, show us those things. that are harming us show us those things that are being stolen from us show us those things that are not seen change them by the power of your Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus everyone said amen and amen how many of you are grateful for the revelation of Jesus Christ, hallelujah, How many of you think that our online audience will join us if they are going to find the calm that they can sow in the nation of Israel today?

That's what I want us to do right now, get your offerings in your hands this week. I have an assignment, go to the YouTube channel and those messages are there about the seven churches of the Apocalypse. There is no more important revelation in the Bible. You wouldn't believe the amount of eye rolling I get from ministers when they go to say something about Jesus that isn't biblical and I say well you know in the book of Revelation and before I can get it out they've already closed it because that's not for us that is some strange book some cryptic book that has nothing to do with us surely the Jesus there is totally different, it is a strange Jesus, it is for a very limited period of time, no, no, you know, the most important revelation of Jesus is here and the scary thing is that it is easily understood.

Get into it, get into it in the name of Jesus, everyone. saying