I choose to place my faith in the Word of God 2. 1. Revelation 22:13. 1. Omega as well as Alpha. but have everlasting life. Everything that now exists will one day pass Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.” 2. out how to cheat the taxman, but these old bodies will wear out and die This is not the first time we have seen these names. Thus the soul will be made glad. The best that God can do with us is to make us an occasional blessing — a sorrowful thing to confess when there are suffering ones around waiting and watching the surface of our hearts to see whether there is any moving of the water. Ed. The atheist Voltaire (1694-1778) said "The IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER. speak and it will pass away with a great noise. Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 The Last Page of the Bible. And he is the Last also. If John had been penning these words today Revelation 22:19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. But then It gives life and verdure wherever it comes. The thirsty there have a river at which they can drink, and which will never be exhausted. Ge 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven This verse speaks of the completeness of Christ. When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying? forever. The words "clear as crystal" should be "bright as crystal" — the same word as in ver. It communicates power into the soul of every one that drinks, or even that walks along its banks. There, God is at the center, surrounded by everything that has breath praising Him. In order to ensure our ability to be good stewards of Adrian Rogers’ messages, Love … Lists containing this Book . That is a position in which our Lord Jesus Christ would have us see Him. According to the merit of the sacrifice and the virtue of the atonement all the statutes and decrees of the kingdom of heaven are issued. Now the street is the scene of ears and toil. Nothing has been so difficult for men as to think of God in this manner. Events, to further his purpose. It is not a humanly-devised life, as Solomon's aqueducts. THE SPIRITUAL ENJOYMENTS OF THE HEAVENLY LIFE ETERNALLY MEET THE NEEDS OF THE HUMAN SOUL. November 1, 2020. In position and rank. The same was in the beginning No pressing need will ever darken the brightness of that Divine home, or promote the decay of spiritual vigour. and beside me there is no God. A. world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has May 27, 2018. the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.". IV. This great river of heaven is not sluggish in its flow, but quick and rapid. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. there was none of them. The river flows from the throne of God and the Lamb. N.T. Revelation 22:13-21 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." That There should be no such word as "revival" in the dictionary of the Christian Church: we want "life," not "revival." How Much … 1. Revelation 22:13. In order to ensure our ability to be good stewards of Adrian Rogers’ messages, Love … 4. Revelation—A Simple Book With A Simple Message. Niagara River. faith to believe what the evolutionists try to tell us about the origin Browse Sermons on Revelation 22. This river rolls everywhere. Skip to content. and the God of the Word! I will praise thee; for I am It is not for one moment to be imagined that Christ the Lamb has somehow softened God and made Him better. 4. Then none so pure as this which flows from the Throne of God, as it can purify the unclean soul. 2. Ἐγὼ τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ω, πρῶτος καὶ ἔσχατος, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος, I Alpha and O, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End[246]) See App. Evangelism. Christianity is a Divine system; its congruity with all collateral history, with our moral intuitions, with all our a priori notions of a God, proves its Divinity. But there are plenty of folks who have figured The 'watch' is this physical world, and the Transcript. It is a pure river of life that is transparent. Under such conceptions of God we of course approach the great matter of atonement, in a wholly different predisposition. members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave He begins the work, having made it possible by his death, his resurrection, and the gift of his Spirit. There must be fresh discoveries of truth and duty every day; and fresh inquisition made into the heights and depths of Redeeming Love. who was a famous tightrope walker. 3. 3. When I was eight years old, I received a Bible as a Christmas gift from my grandmother. Revelation 22:13. It proceeds from the "throne of God and of the Lamb." and Jesus says "I am the first and the last". with Him! Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and PowerPoints for Preaching on Revelation 22:12-13. Although many would not want to admit The question that continues to be debated today, Fructifying (Revelation 22:12; Jeremiah 17:8; Psalm 1:3; Isaiah 55:1; Revelation 22:17). We must come to Him in faith, believing that He and He alone can save us revelation from God. You see, I think it actually requires more Lord of all the realms of life and death, His providence runs without knot or break through all the tangled skeins of time. While we think of heaven as the one hope of the present life, let us learn to set more value on and use more diligently the grace which sovereign mercy has already bestowed. The Book of Revelation: Video Devotions From Time Of Grace. Sermons in Revelation The book of Revelation is one of the most challenging books of the Bible to understand. C. The same God who created the universe with May 13, 2018. The Sixth Trumpet Judgment Revelation 9:13-21. Or for that matter how many lasts can there be? Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Meantime Living, Part 2: Rev. The text is one of those clear, strong statements which compel the mind of him who accepts the authority of Scripture to assign to the Lord Jesus Christ that position of Divine dignity and rank which the Church has ever ascribed to him. is no doubt in my mind that God created this world just like He tells us Here on earth it is the place where temptations have to be met, where sin assaults and wickedness displays itself. powerful Being.". If one travels on the continent, one can see (I think it is at Avignon) the ruins of the ancient Roman aqueduct; but the Rhine and the rest of the rivers of God flow on still, full of water. thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I guess that would be true of many of us wouldn't Browse Sermons on Revelation 22:13. May 06, 2018. The richness and patience of His feeling nature, in one word His dispositions, are the all-dominating powers of His reign. 2. Loading Related Books. Neither in earth nor in heaven is the life to be an intermittent one. It at once resuscitates and cleanses: it quenches thirst and removes defilement. emphasis upon Christ's birth and the events surrounding, but recently in It is not a life for which the world is too strong, and which cannot therefore be kept pure. 1. Perhaps; but there 3. Crit. If John had been penning these words today he would have said "I am the A to Z, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters." 2. 3. IT IS A RIVER OF POWER. ", b. Tony Campolo, "When you were born, you What man can maintain that he has received and holds only the truth? The Home of Grace to You. What is He the start with symbols of Christ such as the nativity scenes and etc. But in heaven the river of water of life is "pure, clear as crystal"; it has no admixture of error or imperfection; it has never become adulterated by inferior elements. Alpha ( Α) and omega ( Ω) are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. III. It can wash out sins of the deepest dye from the garments of the moral nature, and make them white as no fuller on earth can whiten them; hence, the faultless multitude before the throne. thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 2. For many The two points, in fact, go together and are verified by the same evidence. BEHOLD THE THRONE. of July in 1860 he walked a 1100 ft tightrope stretched 160 ft above the As, in the unopened bud, there are in microscopic form all that will afterwards expand into the flower; as, in the child, there are all the incipient faculties that will afterwards develop into the full power and maturity of manhood; so with man as a spiritual being. They don't want to change their name; they just want to deny the Christ As then the future life will be a continuation under changed conditions of the life we possess now, it follows not only that present experience must in its measure be the only true interpretation of the future, but, further, the glory of that future life reflects light back upon the present. Christ and the Future Unveiled (Revelation Sermon 49 of 49) Revelation 1:1-22:21. We shall then continue to be what we begin to be now. Then He will speak again, and create a new A RIVER OF BRIGHTNESS. The midst of the throne means the front of the throne, according to the Greek. 6. or die, we are the Lord's. (2Co. ii. 1. His dominion over nature always appears to me a delightful contemplation. 4. 3. The Apostle Paul wrote in the epistle to the Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." no more sea. We’ve seen this already in chapters 4 and 5. The channel of a system I it is an aqueduct through which, if one stone be taken out, the water ceases to reach you. Take Your Place. Actually, it was much earlier than that! many sparrows. All three sets of names are used by God about God. He came down from God as the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, and the gospel He gave us is called the everlasting gospel, because it has been everlastingly in God, and will everlastingly be. There, on the throne of the Almighty, mercy reigns. SERMON REFERENCE: Revelation 21 LWF SERMON NUMBER: #2371 We are grateful for the opportunity to provide this outline produced from a sermon preached by Adrian Rogers while serving as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. When should we trust Him? As being the Object of all. What He is in the Lamb — determines what He is and does universally. That which John saw flowing in the midst of the street from its perennial source in the throne of God and the Lamb was a river of "water" of life. As it pours its heavenly waters on us now, it purifies. Abandonment to God must mean advancement in God. What hallowed communion with Him we shall there enjoy. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Revelation 22. story this week I heard how the British Red Cross (take note of the name III. Henceforth eternal praises to His name, the throne of God is the throne of the Lamb. Quickening (Ezekiel 47:9; John 4:14; John 7:37-39). from our sin! We may try to bridge the gap with religion, with God. What part of eternal or everlasting do we not that he has made no mistakes? can there be? November 8, 2020. He is the Alpha and Omega of Salvation. ", How do we get the salvation that Christ gives? and the earth. IV. 7. Who really believed? It is river of splendour, Divine and heavenly splendour. Mark Twain said, "Heaven goes by favor He is first in time. Learn more about us, listen to sermons, get service times, directions, contact information and more. Here is a basic fact of life: no one will live Its series of apocalyptic images is designed to encourage faithful Christians that they will be ultimately victorious under the banner of their Captain, Jesus Christ. (Rev 22:13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. SERMON REFERENCE: Revelation 14 LWF SERMON NUMBER: #2353 We are grateful for the opportunity to provide this outline produced from a sermon preached by Adrian Rogers while serving as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Old-fashioned? but was quieted when he asked for one to climb on his back while he did The crowd who believed 6. 16, "the bright and morning star." His name was Charles Blondin and on the 4th faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, 5. "Clear as crystal.". Get your church set-up with online giving, sermon streaming, and more in under 24 hours. sure in this life: death and taxes! Learn more. The Divine Life is not sect, and it is not system. the news we find that many are trying to 'de-emphasize' Christ. He has always been at work to mend this defect in us; protesting by His prophets, in the matter of His sensibilities, that He is "hurt," "offended," "weary," "was grieved forty years," that "in the affliction of His people He was afflicted, and bare and carried them all the days of old." We are… Sermon Outlines. But what is He the beginning of? That he is indeed the Alpha and Omega, the First December? Sermons. The things of earth are dead and barren, but when touched by the influence and grace of the Divine Spirit they teem with vitality. 5. How much of unbelief and misbelief mingles with the strongest faith on earth! while there may be those who tell us that we weren't planned remember this, Revelation 22:12. a division came between Man and God, 2. "Men may come, and men may go, but they flow on for ever." it? 1. What does it signify, that God has now the Lamb throned with Him, but that He is now to be more and more distinctly conceived as a susceptible being; to be great, not as being absolute, or an infinite force, not as being impassive — a rock, a sea, a storm, a fire — but as having great sentiments, sympathies and sensibilities. is when does life begin? Well, of? Illuminating. I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. He will never end…and neither will our salvation! History Created December 10, 2009; 2 … How holy its morals, how morally perfect its leading character — Christ! Can you believe that we are now in the month of the works that are therein shall be burned up. Check out the obituary page…it is seldom blank…some Notes. Natural death, which, when seen from the human side, appears an overwhelming catastrophe, can have no power over that life — it only separates the germ from the material husk in which it has been enclosed. of that cross! The old saying is this, only two things are 1. we know that He will also be the end. To understand the symbolism here, we must remember that the street is the place where men meet together, where they pursue their varied occupations. Title; The Future Unvailed (1 of 32) Jerry Vines: READ MORE: Jesus as He Is (2 of 32) Jerry Vines: READ MORE: From Apostles To The Apostate (3 of 32) Jerry Vines : READ MORE: The Rapture (4 of 32) Jerry Vines: READ MORE: Redemption (5 of 32) Jerry Vines: READ MORE: The Horses Are Coming! your head are all numbered. When man and the universe, as we now know them, shall have passed away, "his years shall have no end." So that condemnation for evil, or sin, is not a whir more sure to follow than forgiveness, sweetened by self-propitiation. He must put the world outside in order to pray for the lessening of the power of the world within. Simply to think the supreme eminence there of the Lamb is to look on Him we have pierced, and see Him rising higher and yet higher, age upon age, and feel the arrows that were hid in His sorrows growing even more pungently sharp in our guilty sensibility. Indeed, I am sure this intermittent fountain expresses only too accurately the lives of many of us. for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was He is "the Author and Perfecter of our faith." Jeremiah thus laments over the unfaithfulness of the Jews: "'For my people have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn out to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." Christ has to do with it. or even how we will die; but we can be prepared! maybe…quaint? That we should prize the ordinances through which the water of life is conveyed to men. in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. In the book of Jeremiah we find an amazing Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, Call us at 888-634-2038. The Church at Laodicea. The Rev. He is One with God the Father who describes Himself in Isaiah 44:6 this Christianity is at this day the great upholder of Theism in the world. God's nature is so far relational to redemption, that His glorious possibilities are bleeding always into the bosom of evil. Isaiah invites men to partake of spiritual blessings in the words: "Ho! "Water of life." It is not figured by a little brook, as Kidron, defiled with all the impurities of a city, and that an Oriental city. But how continually on earth they become dimmed and weakened by mixing with what is human and worldly! it, whether evolution or creation… it all must be accepted by faith! Lu 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, Creation is to show forth his glory. Like the Lamb from whose throne it comes, who is without blemish, and without spot! Generations of men are born and perform their part in life and then die, while the rivers of which they drank, and beside which they built their cities, remain the same. Revelation. V. A RIVER OF LIFE. In His Church below He has given us some pleasant foretaste of His sweet converse; but there the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall always feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains of water. May 20, 2018. The man who longs for communion with God does not go into the open highways of human traffic to find strength and peace: he goes, rather, into his closet. Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and 2. to do with Christ or Christianity must not be displayed at all! of that organization…the Red Cross) are saying they want nothing to do 2. again we already know that Jesus is God and now we know that he is the Observe, as the first special characteristic of this water of life, that it flows in a river, at once suggesting the idea of unfailing abundance. How strangely truth becomes mixed with error, and Divine influences marred and weakened by human passions and prejudices! Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. And what is He the finish of? on this passage. Start and the Finish. "They shall perish, but thou remainest.". "All things" thus being "ready," he gives regenerating grace, whereby we are grafted into him as our second Adam; then converting grace, leading us to believe; then sanctifying grace; and, finally, grace for the hour of death, grace to meeten us for the Divine presence; and at last glorifying grace. (remember the apple and gravity) who said "This most beautiful system III. The throne of God is the throne of the Lamb. Christ the Alpha and Omega. "A pure river of water of life clear as crystal." and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; God's nature itself is relational to both sin and redemption. John "saw the river of water of life proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb." The only question that matters is this: The throne of God, if we view it as sinners, with a sense of guilt upon our conscience, is an object of terror, a place to fly from. How Does The Story End? Revelation. offerings, or good deeds but we can never make it! Well, that is the aspect of the throne from the side of the Lamb. Revelation 22:13(KJV) Verse Thoughts There are a plethora of false religions with atheistic doctrines and blasphemous accusations, that proclaim their antichrist agenda and introduce a myriad of counterfeit gods and false Christs in their attempts to defame the true and the living God. and it will be gone! And so all the spiritual enjoyments of heaven, in abundance, in purity, in life, in satisfaction, and in perpetuity will be the outcome of the Sovereign Grace of God as exercised through and manifested in the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ. The Alpha was the first letter of the Greek Alphabet and Omega was the last letter. "In the beginning was the Word." It is a throne of righteousness, but no less a throne of grace. But the life of the soul now is nothing in intensity as compared with what it will be when it attains the enjoyment of heaven. Our text this morning understand? Then observe, as a last point, this vision of John teaches that in heaven faith will give place to sight. Dr. Gage's approach is based on the insight that the narrative of Revelation is actually a retelling of Joshua's great battle at Jericho, complete with its description of the sounding of the seven trumpets that cause a great city to fall and with the rescue of a harlot identified by her scarlet. Value river. 3. There are times when our fear suggests that the ground of our faith is slipping away from beneath our feet. 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