WEBVTT 00:38.928 --> 00:41.109 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you so much for watching. 01:18.505 --> 01:35.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's like that. 01:37.435 --> 01:37.775 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 01:38.756 --> 01:47.402 [SPEAKER_01]: This moment that we were expecting, that we've been told was coming, that you knew it was coming, it just stops. 01:49.144 --> 02:00.052 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if you're joining us today, if this is your first time, joining us for the Revelation series, if you've been here for the entire time, this is where we are joining our story today. 02:00.732 --> 02:03.134 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be in Revelation 10, we have a lot to get through. 02:03.154 --> 02:06.737 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you've got your Bible with you, you can go ahead and open up the Revelation 10. 02:08.011 --> 02:17.554 [SPEAKER_01]: But you'll remember that in Revelation 10, this is a chapter that appears to be a break in something that we were told to expect. 02:18.174 --> 02:29.238 [SPEAKER_01]: So as you pull up your Bible's Revelation 10, and if you don't have a Bible, I'd love to stop here and say, if you do not have a Bible, stop by our welcome desk after service, you can go right now. 02:29.758 --> 02:31.319 [SPEAKER_01]: Someone there will get your Bible. 02:31.359 --> 02:34.900 [SPEAKER_01]: We would love to give you a Bible today if you do not have one. 02:36.043 --> 02:52.678 [SPEAKER_01]: But as we enter into this, the word that tells us of these trumpets, we know a seventh trumpet has been coming and we're going to enter in to chapter 10 where you'll notice over the past few weeks we've had one, two, three, four, five, six trumpets. 02:54.126 --> 02:55.287 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we pause for a moment. 02:55.307 --> 03:05.073 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get into that, but this word that we're going to get into, the Bible that you are holding, the words in your Bible app, the Bible that we would love to give you. 03:05.373 --> 03:08.895 [SPEAKER_01]: We believe that this is these words, or the word of God. 03:10.356 --> 03:17.241 [SPEAKER_01]: We believe that these words tell the story of life and love and who you are and why you are. 03:18.402 --> 03:20.743 [SPEAKER_01]: And today's we enter into Revelation 10. 03:20.763 --> 03:21.624 [SPEAKER_01]: We enter into 03:22.588 --> 03:30.253 [SPEAKER_01]: The Word of God's Scripture, proclaiming that the Word of God is coming back. 03:31.714 --> 03:46.305 [SPEAKER_01]: The Word of God proclaiming that the Word of God, the Word that was spoken in the beginning and holds the universe together by His will and as an infant dependent on the physical care of His mother is still holding that universe together. 03:46.465 --> 03:47.786 [SPEAKER_01]: That Word. 03:49.790 --> 03:53.374 [SPEAKER_01]: John one tells us, was with God, and the word was God. 03:54.875 --> 04:01.382 [SPEAKER_01]: So we jump into the word today in Revelation 10, and we enter into a moment where six trumpets have blasted. 04:02.223 --> 04:04.205 [SPEAKER_01]: We've been told the seventh trumpet is coming. 04:04.225 --> 04:08.589 [SPEAKER_01]: We know that that seventh trumpet will signify the fullness of Christ in His kingdom. 04:09.416 --> 04:14.217 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ will return and reign in glory and we've been waiting and the earth has been in turmoil. 04:14.917 --> 04:32.762 [SPEAKER_01]: Trumpet, after Trumpet has blasted with consequence, after consequence, what Christ himself refers to elsewhere in Scripture as the birth pains, the bursting pains of his second coming, and John reminds us that that word, that word, that word, 04:33.108 --> 04:40.372 [SPEAKER_01]: the word still speaking to us today through his spirit and as his people was with God and was God. 04:41.833 --> 04:45.995 [SPEAKER_01]: This is important because we're not waiting on a prophet. 04:47.316 --> 04:48.797 [SPEAKER_01]: We aren't waiting on a wise man. 04:48.837 --> 04:53.479 [SPEAKER_01]: This trumpet isn't signifying someone like anybody else. 04:53.759 --> 04:58.162 [SPEAKER_01]: It is signifying Yahweh God in the flesh bringing heaven down. 04:59.950 --> 05:02.491 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was going to stop there as we step into it. 05:02.812 --> 05:06.934 [SPEAKER_01]: This morning, I want us to remember who's returned we're looking towards. 05:07.574 --> 05:10.896 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember who's glorious return is still coming. 05:10.936 --> 05:16.119 [SPEAKER_01]: But then, I kept reading and the Holy Spirit moved in me through his word that he inspired. 05:16.139 --> 05:19.101 [SPEAKER_01]: And I saw this, and I would love for you to see this. 05:21.022 --> 05:24.724 [SPEAKER_01]: The word was with God and the word was God, who was with God in the beginning. 05:25.764 --> 05:28.206 [SPEAKER_01]: Through him, all things were made. 05:28.874 --> 05:33.536 [SPEAKER_01]: Without him, nothing was made that has been made and him was licensed. 05:34.237 --> 05:37.338 [SPEAKER_01]: That life was the light of all mankind. 05:38.619 --> 05:42.221 [SPEAKER_01]: And get this, the light shines in the darkness. 05:43.061 --> 05:44.862 [SPEAKER_01]: And the darkness has not overcome it. 05:46.343 --> 05:58.609 [SPEAKER_01]: So as we move into the apocalypse of John, as it really church would call it, Revelation, together this morning, maybe that, that reminder is where we need to begin. 05:59.691 --> 06:03.635 [SPEAKER_01]: that the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 06:05.117 --> 06:15.668 [SPEAKER_01]: As we look back over these past few weeks in Revelation, for those of you who may be jumping in this week were entering at a moment, not just where things have paused, but a moment where things are dark. 06:17.868 --> 06:23.130 [SPEAKER_01]: So John writes in his own time, after Jesus had been resurrected, he's been seen by hundreds of people. 06:23.170 --> 06:24.271 [SPEAKER_01]: He ascends back to heaven. 06:25.031 --> 06:30.613 [SPEAKER_01]: John writes in his own time that Jesus still shines in the darkness, and the darkness is not overcoming. 06:30.973 --> 06:37.776 [SPEAKER_01]: And now 2,000 years later, the light that was shown when the word became fleshened well to among us. 06:37.816 --> 06:39.477 [SPEAKER_01]: That light still shines. 06:40.277 --> 06:41.958 [SPEAKER_01]: And darkness has not one. 06:43.999 --> 06:46.920 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to pause it this truth today as we move forward. 06:48.460 --> 06:51.062 [SPEAKER_01]: the light will shine in the darkness. 06:52.183 --> 06:53.724 [SPEAKER_01]: And the darkness will not overcome. 06:55.985 --> 06:58.447 [SPEAKER_01]: So before we jump in, to Revelation 10, would you pray with me? 07:00.148 --> 07:01.088 [SPEAKER_01]: Dear Father, please. 07:02.187 --> 07:07.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Use our time together today, change us, change us from how we walked into day God. 07:07.490 --> 07:13.953 [SPEAKER_01]: We pray that we would leave renewed, refreshed, remembering who you are and what you've done for us, God. 07:13.973 --> 07:24.859 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I would pray that in the way that only you can, God, you would transform us, renew our minds, show us how to love and live and reflect you to a world that does not know you got. 07:25.719 --> 07:27.600 [SPEAKER_01]: Please use our time, use it for your glory. 07:28.581 --> 07:29.721 [SPEAKER_01]: Make us live more and more like you. 07:33.013 --> 07:37.735 [SPEAKER_01]: So John, his face is in the dirt, he's receiving a vision from Christ. 07:39.015 --> 07:48.519 [SPEAKER_01]: He's writing it down and he writes to this, Revelation 10, verse 1, then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by cloud with a rainbow over his head. 07:49.260 --> 07:52.881 [SPEAKER_01]: His face shown like the sun and his feet were like pillars of fire. 07:53.681 --> 07:57.723 [SPEAKER_01]: And in his hand was a small scroll that had been opened. 07:59.115 --> 08:07.677 [SPEAKER_01]: He stood with his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land and he gave a great shout like the roar of a lion. 08:09.338 --> 08:13.419 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he shouted, the seven thunders answered. 08:14.899 --> 08:23.702 [SPEAKER_01]: When the seven thunders answered, I was about to write John says, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, keep secret with the seven thunders said and do not write it. 08:24.822 --> 08:28.103 [SPEAKER_01]: So John again, he's face down in the dirt writing. 08:28.835 --> 08:42.084 [SPEAKER_01]: And he tells us that he hears this great shout and seven thunders answer, and just as he's about to write down what they said, strangely, this voice from heaven, not the angel, presumably the Holy Spirit or Christ Himself tells him. 08:42.664 --> 08:43.104 [SPEAKER_01]: Not that. 08:44.205 --> 08:46.547 [SPEAKER_01]: Only you can hear what they just said. 08:46.687 --> 08:48.007 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't write that now. 08:49.589 --> 08:54.692 [SPEAKER_01]: Then the angel, I saw a standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand toward heaven. 08:55.576 --> 09:09.139 [SPEAKER_01]: He's worn oath in the name of the one who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and everything in them, the earth and everything in them, the sea and everything in them. 09:10.500 --> 09:13.500 [SPEAKER_01]: So, give me the Sunday School answer, who is he speaking of here? 09:15.361 --> 09:20.462 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, he was with God in the beginning, through him, all things were made. 09:21.195 --> 09:23.278 [SPEAKER_01]: the one who created the heavens and everything in them. 09:23.318 --> 09:27.523 [SPEAKER_01]: Through him, all things were made without him, nothing was made that has been made. 09:28.344 --> 09:29.065 [SPEAKER_01]: This is amazing. 09:29.686 --> 09:30.687 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's debate here. 09:30.707 --> 09:32.289 [SPEAKER_01]: I heard one pastor make this joke. 09:32.309 --> 09:35.333 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you have a right to disagree with me? 09:36.013 --> 09:37.976 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion. 09:38.056 --> 09:38.276 [SPEAKER_01]: So. 09:39.170 --> 09:40.070 [SPEAKER_01]: That's how we move forward. 09:40.650 --> 09:52.613 [SPEAKER_01]: But I believe I believe, bear's opinion, that the same John who wrote that scripture we just read, John, the writer of the gospel, John, I believe he's also the author of Revelation. 09:52.633 --> 10:08.117 [SPEAKER_01]: And that would mean if I were correct, that the same John who wrote those words, decades earlier is saying again, that the angel is speaking to Jesus, the one who created the heavens and everything in them, the earth, 10:08.384 --> 10:10.646 [SPEAKER_01]: and everything in them, the sea, and everything in them. 10:12.027 --> 10:20.914 [SPEAKER_01]: Then Jesus, the Word who is at creation and created it, all John says, is still in control of it, all. 10:22.296 --> 10:26.399 [SPEAKER_01]: So why is the angel standing with a foot on the land and on the sea? 10:27.340 --> 10:37.228 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the angel submitting two Christ is representing the fullness of the power, the fullness of the power that Christ has over all creation. 10:38.429 --> 10:46.813 [SPEAKER_01]: Then the passage says, importantly, that this little scroll he's holding says that this little scroll had already been opened. 10:47.573 --> 10:49.434 [SPEAKER_01]: When John sees it, it's already open. 10:51.055 --> 10:53.016 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, there will be no more delay. 10:53.656 --> 10:54.976 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember that for later as well. 10:55.937 --> 10:59.859 [SPEAKER_01]: When the seventh angel blows his trumpet, God's mysterious plan will be fulfilled. 11:00.139 --> 11:02.980 [SPEAKER_01]: It will happen just as he announced it to his servants, the prophets. 11:03.500 --> 11:05.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Then the voice from heaven spoke to me again, 11:07.968 --> 11:08.509 [SPEAKER_01]: open scroll. 11:08.649 --> 11:16.256 [SPEAKER_01]: Adam spoke much earlier in this series on how important it was that Christ alone could unseal the scroll. 11:16.716 --> 11:18.317 [SPEAKER_01]: There's this scroll seven seals. 11:18.518 --> 11:19.418 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a big deal. 11:19.498 --> 11:22.661 [SPEAKER_01]: So this little scroll showing up open. 11:22.701 --> 11:24.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't take that detail for granted. 11:24.203 --> 11:25.003 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not a mistake. 11:26.024 --> 11:27.826 [SPEAKER_01]: So go and take the open scroll. 11:28.086 --> 11:32.290 [SPEAKER_01]: The voice from heaven says from the hand of the angel who's standing on the sea and on the land. 11:33.327 --> 11:35.948 [SPEAKER_01]: So I went to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. 11:36.388 --> 11:39.770 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, take it and eat it. 11:41.270 --> 11:45.052 [SPEAKER_01]: He said it will be sweet as honey in your mouth, but it will turn sour in your stomach. 11:45.592 --> 11:51.834 [SPEAKER_01]: So I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel and I ate it, it was sweet in my mouth, but when I swallowed it, it turned sour in my stomach. 11:52.775 --> 11:58.617 [SPEAKER_01]: Then I was told, you must prophesy again about many people's nations, languages, and kings. 12:00.378 --> 12:00.638 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, 12:02.017 --> 12:05.679 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to give you one minute with the people around you. 12:05.820 --> 12:07.741 [SPEAKER_01]: If there's anyone sitting by themselves, invite them in. 12:07.781 --> 12:09.602 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to discuss this question. 12:10.142 --> 12:14.265 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone included, what do you think the scroll means? 12:15.126 --> 12:16.106 [SPEAKER_01]: What is going on here? 12:16.146 --> 12:17.067 [SPEAKER_01]: What is it talking about? 12:17.107 --> 12:18.788 [SPEAKER_01]: What does the scroll mean? 12:19.208 --> 12:20.069 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you one minute. 12:20.089 --> 12:20.869 [SPEAKER_01]: Talk to people around you. 12:31.858 --> 12:33.920 [SPEAKER_01]: OK, if you'd believe it, that was a minute. 12:34.661 --> 12:35.742 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was actually generous. 12:35.802 --> 12:38.225 [SPEAKER_01]: I gave you like a minute and 10 seconds. 12:38.685 --> 12:40.006 [SPEAKER_01]: So you're welcome. 12:40.547 --> 12:45.492 [SPEAKER_01]: Show of hands who's feeling brave, who is like, yeah, I know what it means. 12:46.333 --> 12:48.295 [SPEAKER_01]: Who's here like, I'm confident I got it. 12:50.375 --> 12:52.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Great, so here's the next part. 12:53.796 --> 12:54.856 [SPEAKER_01]: I love the humility, by the way. 12:55.236 --> 12:58.077 [SPEAKER_01]: If I don't ask you what you think it means and we can all just pretend we're right. 12:58.097 --> 13:05.260 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're just going to move with that when I continue forward from this point on, as I want to call this out really clearly. 13:05.840 --> 13:08.921 [SPEAKER_01]: From this point on, we're about to step into chapter 11 now. 13:10.021 --> 13:12.802 [SPEAKER_01]: We are moving firmly into Barrett's opinion. 13:14.280 --> 13:17.381 [SPEAKER_01]: This is about to get very much my study. 13:17.521 --> 13:19.082 [SPEAKER_01]: I can give you an educated guess. 13:19.122 --> 13:20.802 [SPEAKER_01]: I can give you what I believe is happening here. 13:21.302 --> 13:23.603 [SPEAKER_01]: Chapter 11 is going to get a little wild. 13:23.843 --> 13:27.364 [SPEAKER_01]: And it is firmly what I believe is happening here. 13:27.444 --> 13:29.204 [SPEAKER_01]: So take that for what it is. 13:29.244 --> 13:30.965 [SPEAKER_01]: Just want to say it really clearly upfront. 13:31.485 --> 13:38.047 [SPEAKER_01]: So as we continue from this point, I'm going to take a quote from our family ministry pastor, Kyle, who spoke here just a little bit ago. 13:38.967 --> 13:40.567 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, I can tell you how it starts. 13:41.308 --> 13:42.508 [SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you how it ends. 13:43.108 --> 13:45.048 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot in the middle I can't explain. 13:46.949 --> 13:51.609 [SPEAKER_01]: And if that isn't the story of maybe revelation as a whole, I can tell you how it starts. 13:51.629 --> 13:53.070 [SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you that it ends. 13:53.130 --> 13:53.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus wins. 13:54.310 --> 13:56.050 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot in the middle here I can't explain. 13:56.570 --> 13:59.591 [SPEAKER_01]: Kyle said it's kind of like ordering and Amazon package. 14:00.251 --> 14:00.771 [SPEAKER_01]: Stick with me. 14:01.571 --> 14:04.272 [SPEAKER_01]: So like I put my credit card in. 14:05.171 --> 14:12.733 [SPEAKER_01]: And then in about two days, whatever I want ends up on my porch, I can tell you how it started. 14:13.113 --> 14:14.073 [SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you where it ended. 14:14.273 --> 14:21.896 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell you how the website talks to the warehouse, talks to the person who puts it in the truck, talks to the truck, gets it to my house. 14:22.636 --> 14:26.817 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of magic going on that means I can order whatever I want and get it in two days. 14:27.382 --> 14:30.663 [SPEAKER_01]: So there's a lot between these two as we dive into 11. 14:31.004 --> 14:32.804 [SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you how it starts how it ends. 14:33.144 --> 14:35.966 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot between those two that I don't understand. 14:35.986 --> 14:37.986 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to, again, call out really clearly. 14:38.727 --> 14:39.587 [SPEAKER_01]: I can give you my opinions. 14:39.607 --> 14:40.347 [SPEAKER_01]: I can give you what I think. 14:40.467 --> 14:41.488 [SPEAKER_01]: I've done my research. 14:41.808 --> 14:47.070 [SPEAKER_01]: I can give you good, educated thoughts on what they might mean, but I'm not going to pretend that I know. 14:47.270 --> 14:49.431 [SPEAKER_01]: So what's the scroll? 14:50.111 --> 14:51.052 [SPEAKER_01]: Barrett's opinion. 14:52.059 --> 14:56.803 [SPEAKER_01]: I would say I strongly believe that the scroll is the gospel itself. 14:57.563 --> 15:00.826 [SPEAKER_01]: John has told to eat this to represent Christ's second coming. 15:01.887 --> 15:04.048 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the interlude. 15:04.428 --> 15:06.250 [SPEAKER_01]: This is that trumpets the way we started. 15:07.030 --> 15:08.391 [SPEAKER_01]: You know the seventh trumpet is coming. 15:08.411 --> 15:10.813 [SPEAKER_01]: You're expecting the seventh trumpet to come. 15:10.833 --> 15:12.515 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we stop. 15:13.115 --> 15:16.037 [SPEAKER_01]: There's an interlude and John receives this little scroll. 15:21.780 --> 15:23.561 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ's gospel has already begun. 15:23.601 --> 15:36.890 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ has come down and returned to the Father, yet John is told to eat it now, because I believe, as we will read in a moment, the fullness of Christ's gospel is coming when the seventh trumpet bless. 15:37.791 --> 15:40.833 [SPEAKER_01]: And so John and you and I must now proclaim that. 15:41.574 --> 15:43.595 [SPEAKER_01]: From His mouth, He writes it down for us. 15:43.635 --> 15:44.616 [SPEAKER_01]: We preach the word. 15:44.636 --> 15:50.520 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, we're gonna argue that this, this is the fullness of the gospel. 15:51.126 --> 15:54.488 [SPEAKER_01]: because the gospel in its entirety is the story of Christ. 15:54.928 --> 15:58.070 [SPEAKER_01]: The good news is the good news of a Savior. 15:58.090 --> 15:59.231 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not over. 15:59.311 --> 16:03.013 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is why I chose to begin in what is John's first letter. 16:04.134 --> 16:07.535 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus' second coming and we'll call it the bitter sweet. 16:07.555 --> 16:10.777 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what scripture refers to it, but the sweet and sour. 16:10.857 --> 16:13.279 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll call it the bitter sweet nature of this. 16:13.899 --> 16:20.123 [SPEAKER_01]: The bitter sweet nature of the little scroll is, I believe, the bitter sweet message of the gospel. 16:20.984 --> 16:23.886 [SPEAKER_01]: Another pastor said the gospel is inherently offensive. 16:25.167 --> 16:29.469 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a bittersweet nature to a savior coming and saving me from myself. 16:30.650 --> 16:33.112 [SPEAKER_01]: So you can't separate these two. 16:33.392 --> 16:36.854 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the gospel and the second come. 16:38.215 --> 16:39.136 [SPEAKER_01]: It is the gospel. 16:41.557 --> 16:47.201 [SPEAKER_01]: And if that's true, if I'm correct, then the scroll that's being opened and anticipation of the seventh trumpet. 16:48.386 --> 16:51.748 [SPEAKER_01]: John needs to know something before this trumpet comes. 16:52.008 --> 16:55.370 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we've been waiting on, we've been knowing is going to happen in chapter 11. 16:55.390 --> 16:59.913 [SPEAKER_01]: What the whole of the New Testament is pointing to is that same gospel. 17:01.854 --> 17:03.155 [SPEAKER_01]: So why is it bitter sweet? 17:04.355 --> 17:05.876 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll jump into 11. 17:06.677 --> 17:07.137 [SPEAKER_01]: First one. 17:08.495 --> 17:10.076 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was given a measuring stick. 17:10.096 --> 17:14.860 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was told, go and measure the temple of God and the altar and count the number of worshipers. 17:15.381 --> 17:18.804 [SPEAKER_01]: But do not measure the outer courtyard for it has been turned over to the nations. 17:19.224 --> 17:21.366 [SPEAKER_01]: They will trample the Holy City for 42 months. 17:21.886 --> 17:24.708 [SPEAKER_01]: That's three and a half years. 17:26.270 --> 17:32.094 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'll give power to my two witnesses and they will be clothed in burlap and prophesied during those 1,260 days. 17:32.555 --> 17:34.877 [SPEAKER_01]: That's three and a half years again, making a total of seven. 17:36.207 --> 17:41.889 [SPEAKER_01]: These two prophets are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands that stand before the Lord of all the earth. 17:42.789 --> 17:52.153 [SPEAKER_01]: Opinion again, I believe, and I wanna say this now, as we continue to read, think through, my opinion, I believe these prophets are the church. 17:53.034 --> 17:58.178 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe these prophets are the modern church, prophesying of Christ's return, my opinion. 17:58.858 --> 18:03.882 [SPEAKER_01]: But these two prophets are the lampstand, the other word used for churches in Revelation, that stand before all the earth. 18:03.902 --> 18:08.505 [SPEAKER_01]: If anyone tries to harm them, fire flashes from their mouths and consumes their enemies. 18:09.166 --> 18:11.527 [SPEAKER_01]: Does that anyone who tries to harm them must die? 18:12.328 --> 18:23.014 [SPEAKER_01]: They have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesied, they have power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague it's often as they wish. 18:23.755 --> 18:26.656 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot going on there, but I would point back to verse 5. 18:27.117 --> 18:29.498 [SPEAKER_01]: Does anyone who tries to harm them must die? 18:30.258 --> 18:34.121 [SPEAKER_01]: If these are meant to be the churches, our job is proclaiming the gospel. 18:35.041 --> 18:36.142 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't defeat them. 18:37.443 --> 18:40.004 [SPEAKER_01]: Scripture elsewhere says that we condemn ourselves. 18:40.144 --> 18:43.185 [SPEAKER_01]: We proclaim the gospel boldly and faithfully. 18:44.506 --> 18:47.347 [SPEAKER_01]: And then that is how anyone who perishes will perish. 18:48.587 --> 18:56.170 [SPEAKER_01]: Continue on verse seven, when they complete their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the bottom was pit will declare war against them and he will conquer them and kill them. 18:56.730 --> 19:04.233 [SPEAKER_01]: This image of a beast, Satan declaring war, not instantly defeating, but fighting with and then conquering whoever these prophets are, 19:05.270 --> 19:09.014 [SPEAKER_01]: And their bodies will lay in the main street of Jerusalem and for three and a half days. 19:09.634 --> 19:11.296 [SPEAKER_01]: Same language from verses two and three. 19:11.916 --> 19:15.860 [SPEAKER_01]: All peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will stare at their bodies. 19:16.821 --> 19:21.225 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the church has gone to every language, tribe, people, and nation. 19:22.106 --> 19:25.229 [SPEAKER_01]: No one will be allowed to bury them, but after three and a half days, 19:26.282 --> 19:32.785 [SPEAKER_01]: Know that they prophesy for three and a half years, but we're only going for three and a half days, a much shorter time. 19:33.485 --> 19:37.267 [SPEAKER_01]: God breathed life into them, resurrection, and they stood up. 19:37.807 --> 19:45.471 [SPEAKER_01]: Terrestruck, all who were staring at them, then allowed voice from heaven, called to the two prophets, come up here, and they rose to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched. 19:46.531 --> 19:48.272 [SPEAKER_01]: At the same time, there was a terrible earthquake. 19:48.642 --> 19:55.404 [SPEAKER_01]: that destroyed a tenth of the city, 7,000 people died in that earthquake, and everyone else was terrified and gave glory to the God of Him. 19:56.285 --> 20:00.006 [SPEAKER_01]: The second tear is passed, but look, the third tear is coming quickly. 20:01.006 --> 20:01.447 [SPEAKER_01]: And here it is. 20:02.747 --> 20:07.949 [SPEAKER_01]: Then, the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven. 20:08.449 --> 20:16.092 [SPEAKER_01]: The world has now become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever. 20:17.430 --> 20:29.799 [SPEAKER_01]: To verse 19, then in heaven, the temple of God was open and the ark of His covenant could be seen inside the temple, lightning flash, thunder crashed and roared and there was an earthquake and a terrible hailstorm. 20:31.020 --> 20:31.901 [SPEAKER_01]: So what's happening here? 20:32.702 --> 20:34.083 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's my opinion in order. 20:35.017 --> 20:37.660 [SPEAKER_01]: I said, I believe the profit represents the church. 20:38.221 --> 20:49.674 [SPEAKER_01]: For you who know your stuff, for those in the room that have studied this in depth, I'll just acknowledge clearly that there is a lot of eschatology, the study of last things. 20:50.174 --> 20:53.276 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of eschatology that finds its roots in this passage. 20:53.856 --> 21:02.941 [SPEAKER_01]: So as you dissect it, as you study it, this chapter, chapter 11 holds a lot of these foundational truths for the theology of a literal rapture. 21:03.321 --> 21:08.363 [SPEAKER_01]: If you subscribe to that, a lot of that comes from this passage, or seven-year tribulation comes from this. 21:08.403 --> 21:18.749 [SPEAKER_01]: We can debate whether John measuring the temple means a literal third temple must be built, but in as much humility as I can bring, again, all I can say for certain, 21:19.652 --> 21:20.972 [SPEAKER_01]: is that I can tell you what I think. 21:21.973 --> 21:23.453 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell you that I know. 21:24.294 --> 21:25.134 [SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you what I think. 21:25.174 --> 21:27.015 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell you what that I know. 21:27.035 --> 21:31.356 [SPEAKER_01]: There's another phrase from another pastor, smarter than me, pastor, John here at first free. 21:31.996 --> 21:32.736 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was amazing. 21:32.756 --> 21:33.897 [SPEAKER_01]: This is gonna stick with me forever. 21:34.857 --> 21:38.418 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we're just confused at a higher level. 21:41.459 --> 21:48.742 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you study and study and you know more and you learn what eschatology means and then revelation still doesn't make sense. 21:49.503 --> 21:51.264 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we're confused at a higher level. 21:51.304 --> 21:52.604 [SPEAKER_01]: We can learn and study. 21:54.185 --> 22:00.047 [SPEAKER_01]: But here's what I think are some valuable thoughts to consider on these more nuanced positions. 22:00.067 --> 22:01.287 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna try to get through this quickly. 22:02.207 --> 22:02.828 [SPEAKER_01]: But first, 22:04.194 --> 22:18.001 [SPEAKER_01]: Adam already dove a lot more clearly and in-depth and better than I could into the intellectual branches for understanding the 1,000 year reign and tribulation and how and when believers are taken up in relation to the trumpets and Christ returned. 22:18.061 --> 22:22.864 [SPEAKER_01]: If you are interested in those positions, I'm not going to jump deeper into them today. 22:23.004 --> 22:29.867 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're interested in that, if you're wired that way, his previous messages have handled it a lot more in-depth. 22:29.887 --> 22:30.608 [SPEAKER_01]: So go listen to those. 22:31.663 --> 22:39.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Secondly, an important thought in discussing the measuring of the temple and whether a literal third temple must be built. 22:40.951 --> 22:44.654 [SPEAKER_01]: Thought to consider, there is already a third temple. 22:47.116 --> 22:47.897 [SPEAKER_01]: It's you. 22:49.775 --> 22:55.264 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a third temple, so are we waiting on a physical third temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? 22:55.424 --> 23:01.874 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe, or is John being told to measure something in relation to the church, these prophets? 23:02.656 --> 23:03.497 [SPEAKER_01]: Just a thought to consider. 23:04.502 --> 23:15.707 [SPEAKER_01]: Thirdly, so much of this passage, more than I could possibly hope to cover, comes directly from the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Zechariah, often word for word. 23:16.307 --> 23:21.850 [SPEAKER_01]: If I would have stopped in that passage and told you every time one of these was referencing something else, we'd be here till dinner. 23:22.618 --> 23:34.586 [SPEAKER_01]: So, it's important to note that so much of this passage, so much of Revelation 11, is referencing old testament, prophecy reframing it, building upon it. 23:34.626 --> 23:42.451 [SPEAKER_01]: So, Jesus, in His Gospels, Jesus, in the Gospels, He Himself points back to prophecy from then. 23:42.891 --> 23:43.972 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you will know this phrase. 23:44.732 --> 23:48.475 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus calls it the abomination of desolation that is arguably, 23:49.453 --> 23:52.317 [SPEAKER_01]: arguably being fulfilled here, something you consider. 23:52.898 --> 24:02.232 [SPEAKER_01]: Last thought for the more intellectually minded, it's just important to know that eschatology, the study of, again, literally the last things. 24:03.069 --> 24:09.815 [SPEAKER_01]: was effectively entirely a millennial list for the first 300 to 1500 years of the church. 24:10.455 --> 24:19.283 [SPEAKER_01]: For the vast majority of the church's life, they believed that the 1000 year reign referenced a symbolic age of what is the modern church. 24:20.083 --> 24:22.926 [SPEAKER_01]: Primalennial Dispensationalism thought a lot of big words at you. 24:24.388 --> 24:40.293 [SPEAKER_01]: Complicated idea has a lot more to it, but among other things, dispensationalism argues that Jesus would reign for a literal 1,000 years after a rapture, and this is something that we can argue and debate whether it's happening in the following two chapters, or we're going to get into later this year. 24:41.836 --> 25:02.861 [SPEAKER_01]: But that same seven-year tribulation, the same seven years might be happening from another perspective, or if it's even a tribulation at all, we can debate that, we can argue this, but a lot of this, last thing, this is a lot tied up in chapter 11, and most of it didn't really come up until the 1800s, pre-millennial dispensation. 25:03.521 --> 25:08.922 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of that is a relatively new thought in how we digest and understand Revelation. 25:09.003 --> 25:10.503 [SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't mean it's wrong, something to consider. 25:11.343 --> 25:14.404 [SPEAKER_01]: With that out of the way, here's what I believe is the most important question. 25:14.844 --> 25:18.225 [SPEAKER_01]: The most important question for our time today as we begin to land. 25:19.485 --> 25:19.925 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? 25:21.326 --> 25:23.226 [SPEAKER_01]: We set it before we read 11. 25:24.006 --> 25:24.607 [SPEAKER_01]: We finished. 25:24.927 --> 25:27.847 [SPEAKER_01]: Why is all of this bitter sweet? 25:29.308 --> 25:29.768 [SPEAKER_01]: I would argue. 25:30.668 --> 25:37.670 [SPEAKER_01]: The gospel is bitter sweet because Christ came to save you from your sin. 25:39.436 --> 25:41.397 [SPEAKER_01]: The gospels inherently offensive. 25:41.497 --> 25:43.078 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ came to save you. 25:43.098 --> 25:44.059 [SPEAKER_01]: You have a Savior. 25:44.099 --> 25:44.939 [SPEAKER_01]: You aren't alone. 25:44.979 --> 25:46.640 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to earn it yourself. 25:46.660 --> 25:47.881 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to make your way. 25:48.321 --> 25:52.104 [SPEAKER_01]: But he went to that cross for your sins. 25:54.485 --> 25:55.626 [SPEAKER_01]: It's bitter in its sweet. 25:56.226 --> 25:58.928 [SPEAKER_01]: I have a Savior who died for me and I put him there. 26:00.205 --> 26:02.247 [SPEAKER_01]: So, I've got a story for you. 26:03.648 --> 26:05.570 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna press this before I even get into this. 26:05.890 --> 26:09.153 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not, this is a, do as I say, not as I do. 26:09.273 --> 26:15.678 [SPEAKER_01]: I was in college and if you're in college, do your homework, here's the story. 26:15.698 --> 26:20.122 [SPEAKER_01]: I am in an eight week class and I realized first service. 26:20.262 --> 26:23.485 [SPEAKER_01]: I am telling you as a pastor, this was a class to be a pastor, so not great. 26:24.766 --> 26:26.147 [SPEAKER_01]: I was in an eight week course. 26:27.165 --> 26:33.187 [SPEAKER_01]: And at the first class of this eight week course, my professor says, hey, just so you know, I don't do late work. 26:34.448 --> 26:36.529 [SPEAKER_01]: But what he meant by that wasn't, I don't accept late work. 26:36.649 --> 26:40.770 [SPEAKER_01]: It was, I grade everything at the end of the semester. 26:41.391 --> 26:48.613 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care, when you turn it in, I don't care how you want to schedule your stuff, get it in during the eight weeks, I grade everything at the end of the semester. 26:49.634 --> 26:52.655 [SPEAKER_01]: And freshman college bear it, heard, sweet. 26:53.135 --> 26:55.196 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not touching any of this for eight weeks. 26:56.581 --> 26:58.302 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is gonna sound like I'm joking. 26:58.483 --> 27:01.105 [SPEAKER_01]: I, as I tell the story, I'm like, that has to be a lie. 27:01.265 --> 27:02.226 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I did this. 27:03.286 --> 27:10.973 [SPEAKER_01]: At noon, on the last day of the class, it is closing at midnight, I have 12 hours. 27:11.733 --> 27:14.135 [SPEAKER_01]: I sit in front of my computer, I open up the course. 27:15.156 --> 27:17.318 [SPEAKER_01]: I have not done one single assignment. 27:18.367 --> 27:23.391 [SPEAKER_01]: I have not read a book, I have not written a paper, I haven't done a discussion post. 27:23.871 --> 27:27.173 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got 12 hours, so I do what any college student does. 27:27.794 --> 27:32.257 [SPEAKER_01]: And I chug a case of Red Bull, I think my heart stopped. 27:32.317 --> 27:35.259 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I envision, I look like John writing revelation. 27:35.439 --> 27:41.203 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just like, in a haze, head in the dirt, going crazy for 12 hours. 27:42.064 --> 27:44.906 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the conclusion of the story, and it's honestly a bad one. 27:45.286 --> 27:46.647 [SPEAKER_01]: I got a 98 in that class. 27:48.142 --> 27:50.064 [SPEAKER_01]: That was the wrong lesson to learn there. 27:50.364 --> 27:52.846 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, here's my point. 27:53.847 --> 27:54.467 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's my point. 27:55.668 --> 28:02.754 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of us who don't know Jesus, who haven't given our last to Jesus, who don't call Him our Savior. 28:03.234 --> 28:07.858 [SPEAKER_01]: Think a lot of us who don't know Jesus, treat Him like I treated that class. 28:09.099 --> 28:11.281 [SPEAKER_01]: Like there will be more time later. 28:11.321 --> 28:13.203 [SPEAKER_01]: We can get right with Him later. 28:14.604 --> 28:16.025 [SPEAKER_01]: I can do that eventually. 28:17.065 --> 28:30.069 [SPEAKER_01]: And then if I can speak to something, that I think is probably more in this room, for those of us who do know Jesus, for those of us who do follow Him, you have given your life to Him. 28:30.089 --> 28:30.909 [SPEAKER_01]: He is your Savior. 28:31.569 --> 28:35.130 [SPEAKER_01]: You are a disciple of Christ, for those of us that do know Him. 28:36.431 --> 28:41.432 [SPEAKER_01]: I think sometimes we treat the people around us, like I treated that class. 28:42.935 --> 28:45.096 [SPEAKER_01]: Like there will always be more time. 28:45.896 --> 28:48.038 [SPEAKER_01]: I can always share my faith later. 28:48.638 --> 28:51.139 [SPEAKER_01]: We can have that conversation eventually. 28:51.399 --> 28:53.440 [SPEAKER_01]: There will always be a tomorrow. 28:55.101 --> 28:56.362 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just want us to wrestle with. 28:57.642 --> 29:00.464 [SPEAKER_01]: I want us to wrestle with just how human we are. 29:02.565 --> 29:05.947 [SPEAKER_01]: You feel this when a loved one passes away. 29:07.387 --> 29:08.608 [SPEAKER_01]: You know that moment where, 29:09.988 --> 29:13.129 [SPEAKER_01]: like everything shatters, the matrix breaks. 29:14.750 --> 29:24.974 [SPEAKER_01]: And you just realize, like, what is actually important in my life is not generally the things I'm spending the most, time on the most effort on the most energy. 29:26.095 --> 29:26.815 [SPEAKER_01]: You felt this. 29:28.936 --> 29:34.238 [SPEAKER_01]: We lied to ourselves, make it feel like we're immortal, like we'll always be healthy, we'll always have energy. 29:34.658 --> 29:36.659 [SPEAKER_01]: Our friends will always be around us. 29:37.838 --> 29:40.419 [SPEAKER_01]: until our body reminds us that we aren't immortal. 29:41.239 --> 29:46.340 [SPEAKER_01]: Until a loved one passes unexpectedly until time reminds us that we aren't forever. 29:48.081 --> 29:53.762 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's so easy, it's so easy to feel like this life is forever. 29:54.643 --> 30:03.065 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not this life is not forever, but the lesson of the trumpet, the lesson for those of us who need to share. 30:04.242 --> 30:12.988 [SPEAKER_01]: the good news, the lesson for those of us who need to hear the good news is that this life is not forever, but it can be. 30:16.391 --> 30:21.214 [SPEAKER_01]: This life, this life is not forever, but yours is. 30:23.516 --> 30:23.736 [SPEAKER_01]: You will 30:30.381 --> 30:31.622 [SPEAKER_01]: the people you love most. 30:31.722 --> 30:41.466 [SPEAKER_01]: If you believe Jesus, if you trust the words of Jesus, the people you love most will either be forever with God or forever without God. 30:42.526 --> 30:44.127 [SPEAKER_01]: Does that change how you feel about them? 30:45.187 --> 30:49.149 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ has set your mind on eternity, so will you talk to your coworkers differently? 30:49.169 --> 30:50.830 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you talk to your friends differently? 30:50.850 --> 30:52.270 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you talk to your neighbors differently? 30:55.632 --> 30:56.612 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I like to enter in it. 30:57.612 --> 30:58.933 [SPEAKER_01]: We live in the middle. 31:00.053 --> 31:02.194 [SPEAKER_01]: of two thoughts that are out war with each other. 31:02.214 --> 31:03.034 [SPEAKER_01]: The first is this. 31:03.534 --> 31:06.115 [SPEAKER_01]: You live in a world that isn't finished. 31:07.495 --> 31:09.336 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything you own is fading away. 31:09.776 --> 31:12.036 [SPEAKER_01]: In light of eternity, it doesn't matter. 31:12.516 --> 31:13.857 [SPEAKER_01]: We can say heaven is my home. 31:13.897 --> 31:14.797 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just passing through. 31:14.817 --> 31:15.877 [SPEAKER_01]: Why would I care about money? 31:15.997 --> 31:17.018 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't take it with me. 31:17.558 --> 31:24.940 [SPEAKER_01]: Yet, the clock is ticking and time is running out and your earthly possessions, your stuff. 31:26.760 --> 31:37.082 [SPEAKER_01]: your car, the food in your pantry, the money in your bank account, your stuff, the stuff that cludders your home and you wish you would throw away the stuff has eternal consequence. 31:38.583 --> 31:40.883 [SPEAKER_01]: So like you and I better steward our money will. 31:41.443 --> 31:42.504 [SPEAKER_01]: We better be generous. 31:42.524 --> 31:45.925 [SPEAKER_01]: We better love like we're running out of time because we are. 31:48.025 --> 31:52.146 [SPEAKER_01]: Then on the other side, you live in a world that is dead and dying. 31:53.723 --> 31:58.686 [SPEAKER_01]: So something that we need to acknowledge often and readily is that most everyone you interact with. 31:59.847 --> 32:06.632 [SPEAKER_01]: Most of the people you see on a daily basis, Scripture says, are dead in their trespasses and sin. 32:08.353 --> 32:11.375 [SPEAKER_01]: Before Christ, we were dead in our trespasses and sin. 32:12.176 --> 32:16.099 [SPEAKER_01]: So we can't boast that we are lost because we didn't find ourselves. 32:17.279 --> 32:22.063 [SPEAKER_01]: We can't boast that we're without sin because we didn't heal ourselves. 32:23.103 --> 32:33.026 [SPEAKER_01]: But we have the good news, the bitter sweet good news that there is still time to repent, that God is still being patient, and this is the sweetness on our lips. 32:33.846 --> 32:35.167 [SPEAKER_01]: Why has God delayed? 32:36.087 --> 32:37.868 [SPEAKER_01]: Why did chapter 10 exist? 32:38.890 --> 32:51.182 [SPEAKER_01]: Why did the seventh trumpet not just blast warning after warning after warning six times trumpets blasted, calling people to repent and still, again, the heart of God is this, second Peter 39. 32:51.743 --> 32:55.386 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord is not slowing keeping his promise as some understand slowness. 32:56.347 --> 32:58.870 [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, he is patient with you. 32:59.650 --> 33:03.114 [SPEAKER_01]: Not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 33:04.135 --> 33:06.857 [SPEAKER_01]: The heart of God is as equal 33, 11. 33:07.558 --> 33:11.921 [SPEAKER_01]: I take no pleasure, says the Lord, in the death of wicked people. 33:13.842 --> 33:14.462 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you know that? 33:15.583 --> 33:22.788 [SPEAKER_01]: Even in his sovereignty and righteousness and wrath, God does not take pleasure in the death of wicked people. 33:23.849 --> 33:24.670 [SPEAKER_01]: What does he want? 33:24.710 --> 33:25.771 [SPEAKER_01]: What is the heart of God? 33:26.851 --> 33:29.513 [SPEAKER_01]: I only want them to turn from their wicked way so they can live. 33:30.914 --> 33:31.695 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the heart of God. 33:33.208 --> 33:40.950 [SPEAKER_01]: So if the world is dead and dying, and the Lord has called us as His body to preach the good news, here's a little more scripture for you. 33:40.970 --> 33:44.151 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 14, 8, for if we live, we live to the Lord. 33:44.171 --> 33:46.151 [SPEAKER_01]: And if we die, we die to the Lord. 33:46.712 --> 33:49.672 [SPEAKER_01]: So then whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. 33:50.653 --> 33:51.633 [SPEAKER_01]: I know where I'm going. 33:52.813 --> 33:53.993 [SPEAKER_01]: I know who my father is. 33:54.033 --> 33:55.274 [SPEAKER_01]: I know who my Savior is. 33:55.694 --> 33:57.614 [SPEAKER_01]: So if I live, I live for God. 33:57.974 --> 33:59.955 [SPEAKER_01]: If I die, I die to God. 34:01.349 --> 34:08.233 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's one, a lot of us have heard, Philippians 1, 21, for to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 34:10.174 --> 34:12.115 [SPEAKER_01]: To live is Christ. 34:13.816 --> 34:17.298 [SPEAKER_01]: You are the hands and feet of Christ on this earth. 34:17.358 --> 34:19.079 [SPEAKER_01]: We say that, but do we believe that? 34:19.920 --> 34:29.045 [SPEAKER_01]: To live is Christ, to the people in your life that do not know Jesus, to the people around you who are dead and dying with the limited time we have. 34:30.222 --> 34:33.063 [SPEAKER_01]: You're like a breath on a mirror scripture says. 34:33.804 --> 34:35.624 [SPEAKER_01]: We have so little time. 34:36.905 --> 34:38.946 [SPEAKER_01]: The world is dying and you have the good news. 34:39.046 --> 34:42.708 [SPEAKER_01]: You are the hands of feet of Christ to live is Christ. 34:42.728 --> 34:46.809 [SPEAKER_01]: And then if and when I die, it's all gained. 34:48.110 --> 34:49.771 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing I have is mine. 34:50.891 --> 34:54.333 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing I have matters apart from Christ to live is Christ. 34:56.027 --> 35:01.351 [SPEAKER_01]: The word that created, the one who threw him all things were made, that have been made. 35:01.891 --> 35:18.522 [SPEAKER_01]: And then remember this, remind yourself daily, that light which is in you, that light which is in you shines in the darkness and the darkness will not overcome it, not just hasn't but it won't. 35:18.582 --> 35:19.703 [SPEAKER_01]: We know the end. 35:20.853 --> 35:30.697 [SPEAKER_01]: So with everything you have, with everything you own, with all your time, with all your energy, with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, will you follow that King? 35:31.857 --> 35:34.638 [SPEAKER_01]: What is my bank account in light of eternity? 35:34.818 --> 35:36.679 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll give it all for Jesus. 35:37.799 --> 35:40.960 [SPEAKER_01]: What is my home in light of eternity? 35:41.060 --> 35:42.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, take it all. 35:44.242 --> 35:48.283 [SPEAKER_01]: What is my time in light of eternity? 35:48.613 --> 35:50.914 [SPEAKER_01]: But dear Lord, please use us. 35:52.994 --> 35:55.115 [SPEAKER_01]: Dear Lord, please use us. 35:57.996 --> 36:02.637 [SPEAKER_01]: Please use this place, use our resources, use what you have given us for your glory God. 36:05.878 --> 36:07.539 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you change this city? 36:11.040 --> 36:15.781 [SPEAKER_01]: Because of what this place could do, that the blessings you've given us could be a blessing to others. 36:20.237 --> 36:48.267 [SPEAKER_01]: help us to look more and more and more like you to love and live like you to share like we are running out of time to see everything we have like it is yours got please use us Jesus name amen can I speak to something in the room as we close here as we close at this section of revelation we're about to move into a new generation series for our building and campaign and all this amazing really exciting stuff that God is doing here at first 36:49.340 --> 36:55.803 [SPEAKER_01]: But before we step back into Revelation later this year and finish this book, can I just acknowledge something? 36:56.443 --> 36:58.204 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it needs to be set out loud. 36:59.385 --> 37:02.126 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is that revelation is difficult. 37:03.327 --> 37:06.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we just like, I need a man, yeah, thank you. 37:06.388 --> 37:08.329 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm calling, that revelation is hard. 37:09.109 --> 37:10.590 [SPEAKER_01]: This book is hard. 37:11.411 --> 37:12.831 [SPEAKER_01]: So can we like air that out? 37:13.131 --> 37:14.852 [SPEAKER_01]: Revelation doesn't make sense. 37:15.192 --> 37:16.013 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the time. 37:16.926 --> 37:24.673 [SPEAKER_01]: And so absorbing all the information revelation can be tough at times because this book is tough most of the time. 37:26.995 --> 37:28.737 [SPEAKER_01]: And then guys speak to something else in the room. 37:29.797 --> 37:31.979 [SPEAKER_01]: Something that we maybe have become less aware of. 37:32.900 --> 37:33.901 [SPEAKER_01]: Stick with me for a moment. 37:35.903 --> 37:42.609 [SPEAKER_01]: We take balls of glass and we fill them with nitrogen and control lightning for it to see. 37:43.765 --> 37:48.807 [SPEAKER_01]: There are hundreds of thousands of gallons of water floating above your head right now. 37:49.607 --> 37:57.009 [SPEAKER_01]: If I stick an acorn in the ground, wood just pops out and then chases the sun and it just knows to do that. 37:57.349 --> 38:05.412 [SPEAKER_01]: If a worship leader comes out and shrums that guitar in just the right way, vibrate some strings, I'll cry. 38:06.132 --> 38:07.452 [SPEAKER_01]: Where are the moms at? 38:07.533 --> 38:09.473 [SPEAKER_01]: It can all the moms in the room raise your hand. 38:09.793 --> 38:13.094 [SPEAKER_01]: If you, if you are a mother, hey, I'm not sure if everybody else knows this. 38:13.434 --> 38:19.817 [SPEAKER_01]: These women, you guys made a person in you. 38:19.937 --> 38:20.957 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you realize that? 38:22.617 --> 38:28.939 [SPEAKER_01]: So here's the point, can we stop pretending like this world makes any sense? 38:32.281 --> 38:33.441 [SPEAKER_01]: And I wanna leave us with this. 38:35.838 --> 38:38.326 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a God that loves you enough to die for you. 38:39.930 --> 38:40.633 [SPEAKER_01]: How do I know? 38:41.415 --> 38:43.000 [SPEAKER_01]: Because He came down and told me. 38:43.992 --> 38:48.215 [SPEAKER_01]: How did he tell me by giving his life and rising from the dead 2,000 years ago? 38:48.615 --> 38:49.556 [SPEAKER_01]: How do I know? 38:50.036 --> 38:51.817 [SPEAKER_01]: Because his best friends wrote it down. 38:52.558 --> 38:53.818 [SPEAKER_01]: Why did they write it down? 38:53.899 --> 38:58.422 [SPEAKER_01]: Because they saw their friend who claimed to be God and lived like he was God. 38:58.482 --> 38:59.842 [SPEAKER_01]: And for gave like he was God. 38:59.943 --> 39:01.163 [SPEAKER_01]: And loved like he was God. 39:01.584 --> 39:03.465 [SPEAKER_01]: They saw him rise from the dead. 39:04.005 --> 39:08.748 [SPEAKER_01]: And then that friend told them that the same spirit who rose him from the grave. 39:08.828 --> 39:10.870 [SPEAKER_01]: That spirit would live in them. 39:11.650 --> 39:12.211 [SPEAKER_01]: How do we know? 39:13.202 --> 39:22.384 [SPEAKER_01]: because that spirit inspired this text, the same God that's giving John his vision which is faced in the sand, writing down. 39:22.444 --> 39:26.085 [SPEAKER_01]: That same spirit worked through and inspired them to write. 39:28.306 --> 39:29.006 [SPEAKER_01]: So, here's my question. 39:29.026 --> 39:30.727 [SPEAKER_01]: Does that make sense? 39:34.167 --> 39:39.749 [SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe a God that died for me out of his great love for me is the only thing that makes sense. 39:44.103 --> 39:55.186 [SPEAKER_01]: So as we as one body, as one church family step forward into this next phase of first-free, these next few months will be a moment in the history of this church. 39:55.966 --> 40:07.029 [SPEAKER_01]: Something years, decades from now, people will look back on and remember the faithfulness of you in this room, the way that we remember the faithfulness of the people who created the room we are in. 40:08.430 --> 40:11.211 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a moment in the life cycle of this place. 40:11.231 --> 40:12.531 [SPEAKER_01]: And I wanna leave you with this, 40:13.679 --> 40:20.102 [SPEAKER_01]: with everything we have, everything we are, everything we do, before the glory of God. 40:21.543 --> 40:31.567 [SPEAKER_01]: As we move into this next phase, we see everything we have, everything we do, everything we are, for the glory of God. 40:33.108 --> 40:33.928 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch this video with me. 40:38.190 --> 40:40.811 [SPEAKER_02]: The story of first free began in the summer of 1983. 40:42.764 --> 40:53.817 [SPEAKER_02]: five families started meeting for Bible State, no building, no pastor, no staff, just a vision to plant an evangelical free church in St. Louis County. 40:54.758 --> 40:58.743 [SPEAKER_02]: For more than a decade, this church set up and tore down and rented spaces. 41:00.007 --> 41:05.389 [SPEAKER_02]: Then God provided a new property and people stepped out in faith and gave sacrificially. 41:06.029 --> 41:12.270 [SPEAKER_02]: Every week, we worship, connect, and grow in spaces that exist because of their faithfulness. 41:13.091 --> 41:15.151 [SPEAKER_02]: That's the foundation we stand on. 41:16.612 --> 41:17.432 [SPEAKER_02]: And now it's our turn. 41:18.674 --> 41:22.677 [SPEAKER_02]: We believe now is the time to take our next step on mission. 41:23.237 --> 41:29.122 [SPEAKER_02]: To grow generations today, connect generations tomorrow and lead all generations to Jesus. 41:29.142 --> 41:31.564 [SPEAKER_02]: Will you go on this journey with us?