THE POWER OF REVELATION

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 of miracles you may be seated all over the house for just a few moments i know you'll be standing again in a minute for our time of communion and the lord's table together i love that song this is a house of miracles and that's what we certainly want this place to be we want it to be submitted to the will of god and the power of the holy spirit can move through here and around here any time he so chooses and we tell people we don't have protocol we just have consistent altar call you can get right with the lord any time the holy ghost speaks to your heart amen let me just say a few things right at the beginning before we go into our our time of communion we only have two more after this two more wednesday nights the 25th will be our big debate the great demon debate you are not going to want to miss out on this i'm telling you even if of course i'm preaching to the choir but to the folks online if you don't normally come on a wednesday night we'll make a big to do about it on the sunday before we actually have people coming in from all over the country uh that just want to be a part of that some of them will be staying uh for the weekends and we'll be staying over from the previous weekend and from the mass deliverance service at six o'clock on sundays but i'm really looking forward to it it's going to be a good time and let me let me just say something uh just at the beginning that i think needs to be said the moderator uh will will tell us what needs to be done he has sent both me and dwayne charles all of the the do's and don'ts it'll be very be very presidential it's going to be very professional and uh there'll be a 20-minute opening then a 20-minute opening then a 10-minute you know restarter then another 10-minute restart then a small little break and then a question and answer we'll go back and forth and the moderator takes care of all of that he'll be doing the questions from the floor it's really going to be a good time i'll be honest i'm having a hard time whittling down it's two hours and so basically he'll end up with about 45 or so minutes when it's all said or done i'll end up with about 45 minutes and i've got about seven hours worth of material and so i'm trying to figure out uh how to get it all in it's going to be good we'll have two podiums up here and mike's and all of that it's going to be a good time but i want to say this especially to our online community because sometimes the online community feels the need to have to defend me and our church and my character and i get that and i really appreciate that i i'm glad that you still consider this church part of you and your family and consider me your shepherd but uh i want to be very careful uh that the gentleman that is coming understands uh that we're going to be extraordinarily generous to him we're going to be very kind to him we're not going to be calling any names and i want him to come to friendly territory disagreement does not make us enemy it makes us human okay so there's some things we're going to disagree about i actually think we're going to find out there's a lot more that we actually agree on by the time i get through my seven hours and 45 minutes amen but uh so i want to i want him to be treated with with kindness and uh and with compassion if if he allows it we're going to take up a love offering for him for the expenses coming all the way from uh from texas he works a full-time job and so he's taking off to come here because he believes right he believes the word of god he's not a gospel denier he's just a deliverance denier he doesn't understand it and so it's interesting we were talking to monica and e yesterday over kind of a planning lunch and i said you know it it's kind of hard for somebody to really have any any hard arguments against the ministry of casting out demons and she said something i never thought of it really struck me she said uh you are the argument because you were on that side for 30 years and so i i know everything that they're going to say because i've already said it and i said no that's not possible no that's different dispensation no that's not true no jesus didn't mean that no no no you take that out of context and then all of a sudden god whacked me upside the head with the bible and i'm like oh man i was a little bit of an idiot for 30 years and so had to eat some crow and so it's going to be beautiful so the 25th may the 25th and don't forget seven tonight it'll be a two-hour ordeal we'll keep the students in here one thing we will do we're not going to put it on the on the flyers we're not going to put it on the on the memes and all the things and the places where we've promoted this but we will actually begin that night as a church at 6 30 because since it goes from seven to nine that cuts out worship we like worship around here amen so we're gonna we're gonna worship and kind of invite the presence of god in go ahead and get the devil kicked out and so we're gonna we're gonna have worship music from about 6 30 to 6 55 and then we'll take a couple of minutes break and boom then we'll let the moderator take over and it'll be a good time i just want you to be reminded that and i know you will because we're very benevolent and kind i mean look if if an atheist showed up our people would be benevolent and kind and so i fully anticipate that it's going to be perfectly all right all right and so let's make sure that we take good care of dwayne jones and we're kind and compassionate to him well in a few moments when we worship again and we allow all of our students be dismissed and we get into the word i'm going to be honest unless god pulls away me on me and he's noticeably known to do that at times i have several passages together in my heart tonight i prayed throughout the day and i just i could not get liberty about an outline i could not get liberty about a specific message to preach on the lord said i want you to go to these few chapters and i just i want you to read through them just like you would in men's bible study at six o'clock on monday morning just want you to read straight to him and i want you to give some commentary as the holy spirit downloads it into you and so tonight we don't have a we don't have a sermon but we definitely have some word from god and uh so i have some stuff out of the book of revelation in fact and so in just a little bit we're gonna we're gonna let the power of the book of revelation take over tonight amen and it's gonna be beautiful and we're just gonna read through it just let's read a few chapters towards the end of the book and just make a few analogies and a few statements as the holy spirit leads and so prepare your heart for that if you would well everybody on this side of the pole and everybody on this side of the pole as we do every week will be split apart for our time of communion and so i want our servants to go ahead and come and begin to ready and set themselves to serve our community tonight we go into a time of communion and we didn't do it last week just so we could streamline things when my wife and i were in mar-a-lago and i went back and watched it didn't pastor danny do amazing hallelujah wow what a sermon that was beautiful that was beautiful i mean it went well i thought i was going to put in a you know kind of like interview around town to find a church or something by the time i got back man he did so well but thank you so much pastor danny for your heart and for preaching last week that was beautiful and it's nice to know there's people you can just volley it to and just trust and walk away and go out of state and know everything's going to be taken care of but the bible's going to be preached amen that's a blessing to a pastor so thank you for that so last week we streamlined things with us being gone and didn't have communion and so we certainly missed that and so we want to have a time when we come before the lord and we come before each other in unity and cohesiveness and fellowship and so let's pray and then when we pray everybody on this side can begin to line up this way and everybody on this side line up here get both of the elements take them back to your seat and then we'll read the scripture together and we'll partake as one big church body father thank you for the word of god thank you for communion thank you for the broken body of the lord jesus for the shed blood of the lord jesus they overcame him the enemy by the blood of the lamb and lord we know it's still by the blood of the lord jesus christ that we have been given and offered the remission of sins so lord tonight i pray that we would do this in remembrance of the lord's death burial and resurrection until he come produce unity in this house protect us use us unleash your power your glory and revelation into this place and we're gonna thank you for it in the mighty name of jesus and all of god's people said all right let's stand and begin to take communion 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 all right the apostle paul and first corinthians 11 23 says for i have received of the lord that which also i delivered unto you that the lord jesus this next phrase always just amazes me the same night in which he was betrayed took the bread and when he had given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me after the same manner also he took the cup when he had sucked saying this cup is the new testament in my blood this do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the lord's death till he come and all of god's people said amen and amen here's what we're going to do tonight all right there's a there's a few just different things that are on my heart for the service tonight one of which is what we'll do in a moment when i just kind of expressively read and teach a little bit through a few of the ending chapters of the book of revelation but there's also something i wanted to do tonight i just i feel strong in my spirit just heavy in my spirit about this i was thinking about it a couple of hours ago when i was in the office you know there's a lot since we have walked into the realm of spiritual warfare in our church more so than if i dare say the average church i could use that terminology we've had a lot come against us we've had a lot of people come against us we've had a lot of media come against us we've had a lot of spiritual warfare we've stirred up millions of devils demons entities that hate us which i'm glad they hate us because it's mutual i hate them too i hate the devil amen i love jesus but i hate the devil that i hate his demons we've stirred a lot of them up and because of that man there's been a lot of hexes there's been a lot of spells we got people walking around this parking lot with nefarious plans almost on a daily basis i i understand that sometimes the the church you grew up in or the context of not being here every day like the staff is and the leadership you don't see a lot of that behind the scenes you don't see the mail that we get you don't see the literally the little voodoo dolls that are made out of grass that are placed on people's vehicles very randomly every day you know you don't see the things that are placed on the porch you don't see the the witches that drive by the parking lot with their cameras and hold their hands out the window and they they you know have prayers and incantations you know which is pray too that is pray to the wrong god amen and there's a lot that comes against a church like ours and i'm grateful for that i'm grateful for a church that just rolls up its sleeve and jumps in and bust hell in the mouth and said we ain't going to be scared about it praise god greater is he that is in you than he that's in the world so i'm honored to pass for a church like that but i'm not naive as to understand that that it can cause a lot of problems it can cause sickness in people's lives it can cause disconcerted marriages but wild kids i mean when when when the occult stands against you nationally when it when it's against one church there's a lot of pressure under this tent there's also a lot of power in this tent i'm glad that even under this tent tonight there are people in this room that can see into the spiritual realm and they know what we're against and they can see the principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places in this world but here's what i want to do we're going to sing this last so i'm going to worship in it i'm still going to let the kids stay in for this part i'll dismiss them before we get into revelation a moment here's what i want to do tonight it's going to be different if you're a visitor if you're uncomfortable even as a regular attender that's cool here's what i want to do tonight all right there's there's three groups of people right now in this room during this last song they're the people that we just need to worship right there in your seat you just worship lift your hands worship the lord there are the people that i need in a moment to come forward and just randomly begin to feel in this area and lift up holy hands and pray to the lord and get on your knees then there are people that not just pray but have the gift to pray and they can press in and pray in the spirit while we worship i want you to walk around this tent i want you to lift up your hands and just pray out loud while we're worshiping the lord god can hear all of us at the same time you say we've done anything like this that's why we're gonna do it we're gonna break all the paradigms tonight we're gonna have a we're gonna have a worship prayer time amen so let's lift up our voices let's lift up our hands let's lift up heaven let's lift up each other let's walk around this tent let's pray let's shout let's watch god get the victory you can come to the altar you can walk around you can stay in your seat we're going to pray all over this tip and we're going to ask that for tonight and for sunday morning and for sunday night the power of god falls in his house the demons still flee in the name of jesus that miracle signs and wonders begin to follow those that believe that god fills the place to overflowing and things just begin to happen and it looks like we pop right out of the book of acts let's worship and let's pray tonight 
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 christ is my fine foundation the rock on which i stand when everything around me is shaking oh i've never been 
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 he's never let me down he's faithful through generation 
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 so why would he fail now he won't he won't i've got peace that makes no sense so i won't be going 
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 since we're doing something a little different i'm going to testify for a second i pulled onto the campus today at 4 p.m and immediately before i got out of my car i was hit with a wave of sickness so intense that i literally look like i got raptured out of my vehicle because my purse was thrown in the ground and my car all the doors were open and i had one kid in one building and one kid in another building and i was like oh it's food poisoning it's it's fine it's just little food poisoning but you know it wasn't food because as soon as ty came up and touched my leg oh because i have been holding my stomach all like all of it went away and i just kept saying it oh it's fine it's totally fine but you know what he does not fail so i don't know if there's something going on in your life and you're like oh this is just normal this is just average this is just every day he cares about your lack of sleep he cares about your anxiety he cares about your stress he cares about what's going on in your home he cares about your children he cares about your grandchildren he cares about your spouse and your future spouse those of you that are waiting he cares who knows and he is able christ is is 
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 is he won't be i've still got joy in chaos i've got peace that makes no steps so i won't be oh he won't he was 
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 he's a faithful god amen you can head back to your seat students you can be dismissed brother jesse for your time in the word of the lord in the youth room all the students be dismissed i always love to see how many of them they keep bringing their friends and this just grow and grow and growing and we praise the lord for that revelation chapter 20 and the word of the living god tonight could turn there revelation chapter 20. and we're just going to read tonight expressively read through some things i'll make some comments and application as the holy spirit downloads things in me but he clearly in my office earlier today just uh just set me at ease that i didn't have to worry about trying to preach what i thought i was going to preach on he just want me to give the people some word of god tonight amen and aren't you glad we can still be fed from the table of the word of god it's the revelation we need not what greg says it's not about greg letters it's about red letters amen and so we want to feast tonight on the word of god matter of fact it's the power and the engine behind what we do at our 6 a.m men's bible study amen men that have been there and there's different ways to do it but for years the only thing we've done and the way we've grown that class i just get in there and we start in a book in the old testament and we just start reading and we get as far as we can we'll make application we'll take some requests and we'll make some statements and some comments and applications and maybe every now again tell illustration but really it's just full of the word and so tonight i just want our hearts to be full of the word also i want you to pray for me got a busy few days ahead of me uh even on top of all of the pastoral responsibilities here on campus and then the multiple services this weekend tomorrow night i'll be preaching in person viral virginia and i usually say these things because of people online that are in that area i'll be at the revival barn tomorrow night at the living waters farm herself virginia it's close to d.c and then i will hop on the bus and we'll head all the way through the night to myrtle beach and at 10 o'clock their time so pray for me 10 o'clock friday morning i'll be preaching at the reawaken america conference i've missed the last two of them because of my flights had to do the one in oregon on zoom but i'll be back down there with a number of those folks and so pray for that then we'll hop back on the bus get back here friday night have a big day in the office and things happening on saturday preach sunday morning mass deliverance sunday night monday morning we head to bluffton indiana where i'll be preaching in a large tent meeting we'll hop on the bus in bluffton and then head straight to this is the most important one we will head straight to dc because on may 17th next tuesday at noon me sean floyd and some other people on social media are gonna stand on the steps of the supreme court and we are having a rally for life and we're gonna make a fuss for jesus right in joe biden's backyard praise god so it's going to be good there's going to be hundreds of people there the opposition is already there every day and so i'm sure the opposition is going to be horrendous that day but god's going to protect us we'll crank up the microphones and preach about jesus and stand for life and so i have a busy busy few days ahead of me and so pray for my strength and protection and that the lord would have his will and his way revelation chapter 20 if you want to hear from the word say amen father bless the word of god to our hearts may we be like the two disciples on the road to emmaus did not our hearts burn within us when he spake the word of god unto us so bless these moments why you've laid these simple verses and passages and chapters on my heart i don't know but tonight may we understand the power of the book of revelation the power of the end days and the power of the fact that the bible does not end with oh me it still ends with amen and this thing's going to turn out all right no matter what the newspaper says no matter what social media says you are in control and for that we are grateful and we thank you for what you're about to speak to us in jesus name and the church said it's revelation chapter 20. we're actually going to begin in verse number 10 and we're going to read and we're going to chit chat and we're going to talk just a little bit all right revelation chapter number 10 and maybe if we can get one of those fans turned off that would be cool because i feel like i'm already going to have to overwork my voice a little bit with those loud fans and so whatever side he turns them off do not get mad and move to the other side because it's cooler all right revelation 20 verse 10 and the devil say devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever now hear me when i say this by way of quick application i'm glad the devil does not win in the end the devil is going to hell he and the beast the antichrist the false prophet they're gonna burn in the lake of fire for all of eternity and the reason the devil is mad is because in revelation chapter 12 it says woe to the inhabiters of the earth for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath knowing that he has but a short time and although it seems like a long time the devil knows it's a short time and he's going to hell and he wants to drag everybody he can with him because all crooks want to go to jail with another crook say amen right there so the devil's going to hell but watch what happens at this moment verse 11 don't miss this and i saw a great white throne and him that sat on it please understand the throne is not nearly as important as the person that is sitting upon it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them and i saw the dead small and great that means those that have money and those that don't those that are prestigious and those that are not those that are highfalutin and those that are broke and poor they all stood before god and the books noticed not just one but the books were open and another book specifically was open which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which are written in the books notice please this phrase that will be used twice according to their works hear me and hear me well if you are saved by god's grace romans 8 1 says there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in christ jesus but if you are lost if you have never been saved if you have never been born again and you did not accept the work that jesus did you're going to have to pay by your own works and it's going to take all of eternity to even pay it back and you better get saved you better get lost you better get cleansed because your works will not get you to the kingdom of heaven only 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 they'll be judged according to their works and the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works and death and hail were cast into the lake of fire known as hell is a place where people go right now without jesus the lake of fire is where he takes death and hell it's a different place it's another place and all of hell is now consumed by the lake of fire after the day of judgment and the bible says those that are not written in the book of life are thrown there this is the second death verse 15 whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast literally thrown headlong into the lake of fire you know the greatest news about the lake of fire is you ain't got to go that's the good news about hell you don't have to go you can be born again tonight and then once this transpires once this judgment has been meted out the bible says in chapter 21 and verse one and i saw a new heaven and a new earth see the first one got corrupted and god said i'm gonna make a new atmosphere i'm gonna make a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea and i john saw the holy city the new jerusalem coming down from god out of heaven prepared i love this as a bride adorned for her husband and you better know that we the church of the living god are the bride of the lord jesus christ and my book says that he's coming back for a spotless bride he's not coming back for a trashy hooker he's coming back for a spotless bride for a bride that's living right and separate from the world and being holy and righteous and godly and spotless and we're not going to be sinless but we ought to sin a whole lot less we're not going to be perfect but we do need to be different and he said i'm coming back and he said i've seen it come as a bride adorned for her husband and i heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold that's a coffee drinking word it means pay attention to what comes next the tabernacle of god is with men and he will dwell with them they shall be his people and god himself not another one not a false god not some foolish idol made with man's hands but god himself shall be with them and be their god and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes look at me for a moment i'll tell you something it's interesting where that is strategically placed he does not wash away the tears from our eyes until after the great white throne judgment this is merely a speculation on your pastor's behalf but i believe it is a uh a biblical speculation i believe that wherever the great white throne judgment is going to be in the outer spaces well there's no excuses and no exceptions and no exclusions and everyone stands before the fiery flaming eyes of the lord jesus christ the thrice holy god of the universe and they're cast head along with the lake of fire it is only after that that the bible says god shall wipe all tears away from our eyes i'm convinced that although we will not be under judgment for our works i do believe we will be spectators at this event and i believe the tears that god's going to have to wipe away are the very tears of our loved ones that we see get cast head long into the lake of fire because we could have reached them but we were too arrogant we could have prayed for them but we didn't want to we could have fasted for their salvation but we were too gluttonous we could have done something to reach them and we are going to see them i believe turn and give us an accusing glance if not say you could have told me you coward and you never did and now i'll go to hell for all of eternity without the power and the presence of god we could have told them and we didn't and the bible says that once they're cast into hell then god wipes away all tears you know why because if god didn't wipe your tears and wipe your memory heaven would never be heaven when you think about all your family that's going to hell the night that'll motivate you to righteousness if hell in the lake of fire does nothing else it should motivate us to want to be soul winners for the kingdom to reach as many people as we possibly can with the gospel of jesus christ and god's going to wipe away all tears from their eyes now watch this and there shall be no more death won't that be a blessing neither sorrow nor crying no broken hearts in the kingdom of god neither shall there be any more pain if you've lived in a lot of pain in your life shady men right there ain't gonna be no wheelchairs no walkers no cancer no diabetes no no sickness there why for the former things the things that we know they're passed away and he that said upon the throne said behold i make all things new and he said unto me right for these words are true and faithful and he said to me it is done i am alpha and omega the beginning in the end i will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely salvation's free but it's not cheap it cost heaven its best he says in verse seven he that overcometh shall inherit all things and i will be his god and he shall be my son but the fearful you'll notice the first people to go to hell are the cowards the fearful but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers from which we get the word pharmakia and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burn of the fire and brimstone which is the second death that's twice he mentions the second death if you are born once you will die twice if you are born twice you only die once that's why jesus said in john 3 3 and john 3 7 you must be born again verse 9 and there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials of the seven last plagues and he talked with me saying come up hither and i will show thee the bride the lamb's wife and by the way be careful how you treat a man's wife you mess with the bride of jesus and i promise you you'll incur his wrath and he said i want to show you the lamb's wife and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain he showed me in that great city the holy jerusalem descending out of heaven from god having the glory of god and her light was likened to a stone most precious even like a jasper stone clears crystal and had a wall great and high and had 12 gates and might i just say and not even necessarily tongue-in-cheek although it may seem that way the left can take a hike because even god's kingdom has a wall and only certain people can get in somebody say amen right there you get in the right way or you don't get in at all just thought i'd share that with you and that the gates were twelve angels and names written thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of israel man i love that on the east three gates the north three gates and the south three gates and the west three gates and the wall of the city had twelve foundations and in them watch this the names of the twelve apostles of the lamb twelve tribes of israel twelve apostles of the lord jesus and he that taught with me verse 15 had a golden read to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall thereof and the city lieth four square and the length is as large as the breadth and so it's square as it will four square it's it's as long one way as it is the other and so he says and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal and he measured the wall thereof in 140 and four cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the angel and the building of the wall of it was of jasper and the city was pure gold watch this like unto clear glass you see our gold is the color that it is because of its imperfections and impurity we've never seen clear gold but god's got it because there's no impurity in the kingdom of god none pure gold like glass and the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones the first foundation was jasper the second sapphire the third a call city the fourth an emerald the fifth sardonics the sixth sardius the seventh chrysolite the eighth barrel the ninth the topaz the tenth a chrysippus the eleventh of jackman and the twelfth and amethyst beauty of the jewels of god and the twelve gates were twelve pearls i found that interesting that the gates of the city the entryways into the city god specifically designed them to be pearls you know how a pearl is made the pearl is made through infirmity through difficulty through hardship and we get to enter into the kingdom of god through a gate of pearl because of the infirmity and the beating and the hardship and the horrific treatment of the lord jesus christ god is very precise and specific when he lays out the city everything points back to the lord jesus christ the lamb of god every several gate was of one pearl and the street not just the multiple streets but the main street of the city was pure gold as if it were transparent glass and i saw this is so powerful no temple therein no need for a sacrifice no need for a building of worship no need for an edifice to praise the lord for the lord god almighty and the lamb are the temple of it god himself shall be the temple in his own kingdom and the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of god did lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof ought to just drop the might get carried away and run all over this place and kick up every sawdust piece in this house no need for the moon at night no need for the sun by day because jesus is the light he's the light of this city he's the light of this house he's the light of his own kingdom and the nations of them which are saved say saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and their honor into it there'll be some kings there some princes there some honorable people and they'll bring some honor and some glory but none to be compared to the glory and honor of jesus christ and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day 
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 for there shall be no night there you say well why will the gates never shut by day because it's always daytime there is no night no need to sleep no need to rest i tell people all the time they say you need to slow down to rest i said i'll rest when i get to the kingdom but there'll be no need for rest god never sleeps he never slumbers psalm says and we'll be like unto god in that day with a body fashioned gloriously transparently like unto the angels of god there's no nightmare no night terrors no nightmares no sleep walking nothing and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it and there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie but they which are written in the lamb's book of life can you imagine a place where there's no darkness there's no disease there's no divorce there's no division there's no devil there's no sickness there's no pain there's no night there's no need for rest there's no need to eat as it were at least not eternally after the marriage suffer the lamb everything in this land has one common denominator jesus remember the angels in isaiah chapter number six they began to proclaim holy holy holy is the lord god of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory and when john in the spirit on the lord's day in revelation 13 was caught up in a heavenly vision he saw the same angels standing around the throne of god and they cried and they said holy holy holy is the lord god of heaven and earth holy holy holy that's what we'll do we'll worship god there'll be no a semblance of time you're not going to get bored people think well what am i going to do for all of this time you see we expect an end here and yet we understand the reality or at least we try to wrap our mind around how big eternity really is and we say to ourselves wow when will it end it never will and that is hard for us to fathom to wrap our mind around the fact that eternity is just that it is forever in the presence of god but might i also say as a warning in house and online just as long as we as god's people are in the presence of the lamb those without the lamb will be in hell for the exact same amount of eternity if you took a little bird and you let it fly to one of the oceans of the world right now and it picked up a grain of sand and brought it all the way back to mount juliet tennessee and dropped it then that little bird flew all the way back to that same seashore and picked up a grain of sand and brought it back to mount julia and dropped it and when that little bird had done that so many times that that entire beach was bare that it would move to the next beach and move to the next beach and move to the next beach and move to the next beach and when every beach on the planet had been emptied by the beak of one bird of all of its sand deposits eternity will have just begun that's a long time that's a long time to be wrong you say well brother like what if you're wrong if i'm wrong i haven't lost a thing lived a good life helped a bunch of people enjoyed what i did died happy but if you're wrong you're going to hell for all of eternity you better think about that you better think about that and he showed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal everything's clear in heaven proceeding out of the throne of god and of the lamb in the midst of the street of it on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bear twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month and i love this and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations i'm glad there is still healing virtue that flows from the hand of god and there shall be no more out loud what is it curse the curse of this earth will be lifted the curse on the ground will be lifted the curse of man's work will be lifted the curse upon women in childbirth will be lifted the curses that we are born with the curses of the enemy against us all curses in that day shall be lifted there'll be no more curse but the throne of god and of the lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him and can i say in passing don't wait till then to serve him serve him tonight and they shall see his face 
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 and his name shall be in their foreheads and there shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun for the lord god giveth them light and they shall reign forever and ever we are kings and priests hebrews says because of the blood of jesus christ we may boldly enter in to the throne of grace and find help in a time of need because we are kings and priests you don't have to come before me to get in god's presence you don't go to a pastor you don't go to a pope you don't go to a priest you don't go to a potentate the middle wall of partition has been broken down and both jew and gentile can freely enter in because of the blood covenant that jesus has made with his children we shall enter in and reign with him forever and ever and he said unto me these things are faithful and true and the lord god of the holy prophets sent his angel to show and to his servants the things which must shortly be done which would prove to you that god is not a respecter of our clock what do you mean shortly it seems like it's forever where are the signs of his coming they say i saw it on a post yesterday where's he at he's been talking about it for all these years those crazy barbaric christians 2 000 years jesus coming jesus coming jesus coming look if he weighs 2 thousand more he's still a day with the lord is a thousand years a thousand years as a day god's not on your time schedule he's not hampered by your calendar he's just not and so he said it's going to happen they shall shortly come to pass verse seven this red letter's here behold i come quickly 
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 blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book notice how specific he's referring to the book of the revelation keep the prophecy of this book understand it read it and i john saw these things and heard him and when i heard and seen i fell down to worship before the feet of the angel watch this which showed me these things then saith thee unto me see thou do it not he fell down before an angel and the angel rebuked him over it for i am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book worship god you ever notice there's a difference between angels and demons angels always deflect worship to god demons always take the worship for themselves 
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 try the spirits to see whether they be of god one of the way you try the spirits see what they want you to worship if it's you if it's them it's something other than jesus it's a false spirit it's a false prophet it's a demon an angel of god said you get up off your feet i'm just a servant like you are you worship god in him alone and he saith unto me seal not the sayings of this prophecy of this book for the time is at hand notice that the time was at hand when he wrote it two thousand years ago you say well why aren't we there yet well we're two thousand years closer than he was when he wrote it be encouraged lift up your eyes your redemption draws nigh church he that is unjust this is powerful let him be unjust still he which is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy then be holy still here's what god says i can preach a whole message on this a whole series on that verse he says it'll come it'll happen quickly his reward is with him if you're going to be wicked now and you don't repent you'll be wicked then if you're going to live like a hypocrite double-minded individual now you might as well do it then don't fake it till you make it don't put on a smile don't pretend he said when i come again if you were wicked for i showed up you'll be wicked when i get here if you were righteous when i showed up you'll be righteous when i get here and since you don't know when he's gonna show up you better make sure you trim your lamps and put some oil in them and be ready when jesus shows up in the house make sure your oil is your lamp is filled with oil unless you be unprepared and not ready get your garments on get your holy garments of god on get out of this world come out from among them and be a separate saith the lord god and touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you and be a father unto you and you should be my sons and daughters we call that identification stop identifying with the world and make sure that you clearly and starkly identify with the glory and holiness of who and all that god is so he said i'm coming i'm absolutely coming he said in verse 12 and behold i come quickly and my reward is with me yes it is to give every man according as his work shall be i am alpha and omega the beginning and the end i don't insult your intelligence but you do understand the theological significance to the phrase alpha and omega right alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the greek alphabet from which you get your bible in koine greek he said i'm the a to the c i'm all of it i'm the beginning in the end i'm the front i'm the back i'm the up on the down i'm the bookians of eternal truth i'm alpha and omega the beginning and the end the first and the last blessed are they that do his commandments that they might have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city for without are dogs sorcerers whoremongers murderers idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh the lie those are the people that don't get in i jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches it's interesting that he interchangeably uses the word angel because in this context he's referring to john the revelator the messenger of god i sent you this angel to testify under the churches i am the root and the offspring of david and the bride and morning star he said i'm the root i'm the offspring of david i'm the i'm the promised seed to set upon the throne of david just like the bible predicted and promised and you ought to look at the lineage and the history of who is in jesus's family tree they some sketchy people but by the grace of the gospel of jesus christ here we are tonight washed clean by the red royal crimson flow of calvary what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of jesus and he said i'm the bright the morning star and the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him there's a thirst come and whosoever will i remind you the same whosoever in this passage is the same word used for whosoever when we started was not found written in the book of life you are one of two whosoevers you a lost one or a saved one but you a whosoever and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely you ain't got to work for it you ain't got to pray it down you don't have to sign up for it you don't have to be better you ain't got to turn over a new leaf and you certainly don't have to buy it it's given to you freely for our testimony unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book if any man shall add unto these things god shall add unto him the plagues that are written in watch this this book notice that's specific to the book of revelation here's what god says don't mess with my prophecy can i remind you the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy that's what the bible says and you mess with god's prophetic word he said i'll judge you for it i'll put the plagues on you and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy god shall take away his part out of the book of life out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book and i must remind you some of the things written this book are gloriously gifted to us from god because in the first chapter it is the only book in the bible now i understand the context and the flow of theology every book in the bible gives me a blessing joshua 1 8 psalm 1 but only the book of revelation promises a special blessing for those that read obey understand and memorize the book of revelation so he said i'm going to give you the blessings if you'll obey it but if you change it it'll curse you verse 20 he which testified these things saith surely affirmatively without a shadow of a doubt i come quickly that's the third time in one chapter he used the phrase quickly amen then we retort back even so come lord jesus the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you all and the church heartily said 
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 when i was a kid my favorite game was hide and go seek now that i'm a parent my favorite game is hide and go seek he's kidding but i would play that game religiously over on buffalo trail here in mount juliet tennessee with my grandfather and my cousins my brother especially you know how to go seeks a strange game but there's one thing universally that you can always know and stand beside when you play the game of hide-and-go-seek one person is the seeker one person or multiple persons or the hider you got to get back to base while they touch you you know the drill you have to count remember that kind of let people have a chance it's supposed to count to a hundred which means nothing one two skip a few ninety nine a hundred oh here i go right run out and find them but it's interesting that universally in every language in which that game is played there's one phrase that always comes after the counting ready or not here i come whether you like it or not 
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 believe it or not want it or not or whether you're ready or not jesus is coming again church jesus is coming again hallelujah to the lamb of god stand on your feet give the lord some praise in his house tonight father we love you we thank you for the bible lord i believe i've obeyed you tonight and i believe it's been just fine we just need to hear from god it doesn't matter if we hear from greg it's been beautiful thank you for just speaking to me as we move through it tonight blesses jesse and the crew finish up with the kiddos in a moment lord i pray that you'd bless every visitor every member every regular attender tonight bring us back safely on sunday even for the 633 prayer gathering on saturday evening but father sunday morning fill the building father sunday night fill the building once again as we see people set free through the power of the name of jesus bless the homes and marriages represented in this room children bless the jobs the ministries the vocations i pray that they'd be sweet peace and sleep tonight in their homes and wake up tomorrow with a new vitality and victory for the gospel you'd bless them as they go to work bless them as they travel protect them overshadow them continue to do something great and mighty in this church the people who drive by and although they may not understand everything going on and they read all the critical comments and the articles may they know that there's a god in heaven that resides on that campus and it cannot be denied so father dismiss us tonight with your grace your protection your glory your power and may tonight service not be soon forgotten because sometimes all you need is just a little worship and a lot of word to change your whole life we love you and we thank you we can say that because jesus first loved us it's in his name that we pray these things and all of god's people shouted out i love you guys you are dismissed 
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