Take your Bibles and turn with
me to Revelation chapter 4. In Revelation chapter 4 in this
morning, we'll be looking over several verses in these three
chapters 4, 5, and 6. And in this fourth chapter, we
see that John, here taken up by the Spirit into heaven, sees
three things. and one result. Three things
and a result of these three things. And this gives me my title this
morning, God's Throne, God's Book, and God's Lamb. God's Throne,
God's Book, and God's Lamb. These are the three things we're
going to be looking at this morning in these chapters. Now, John
in chapters 4 and 5 is given of the Lord to see into the throne
room of God. He is given in this vision, in
this revelation, to see into the very presence of God. And as you'll read this, when
He begins to describe what He sees, it seems as though He's
reaching for words. He's trying to describe something
that He sees, and He's using things that we can understand.
But in no way are these things comparable, so he has to use
several of them. And these are the words that
the Spirit of God gives us. These are the closest that we'll
ever come to recognizing what this man actually saw until we
are there ourselves. And he looks into the throne
room of God. And as soon as he comes in through
the door, immediately the Scripture says that he is caught up in
the Spirit. He says that in verse 2, immediately, I was in the
Spirit and beheld something. He beheld something. What was
it? A throne. That's the first thing he noticed. I'll tell you what, that thing
must have been the most prominent thing in all of heaven that the
throne was the first thing he recognized in that place. He said, in heaven, I was immediately
in the Spirit and the first thing I saw was a throne. and him that
sat on the throne." He noticed the throne was set in heaven,
and one sat on the throne. And that's the first thing we
want to see this morning, I want us to see, is the throne that
John saw. The throne of God. Not just any
throne. This is the throne. This is the
only throne that really matters. This is the throne that controls
all the other thrones in this world. This is the throne. The
throne of God. And he struggles to describe
this one that sits on this throne. Look at this in verse 3, and
he says, And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and
a sardine stone. That's kind of strange. I had
to look up those stones. I had to see what they looked
like. And if you ever do, they're multi-colored stones. So this
was obviously a brilliance of multiple lights and colors that
he could not describe. It was so beautiful. These stones
are precious in his day. They were beautiful stones. And
these are what he used to describe the one that sat on it. Is this not the sight of all
that come through the door of Jesus Christ? Now, get this. He says, I came through a door. Is that not what Jesus Christ
professed Himself to be? He said, I am the door. The door to what? The door to
the throne of God. That's Jesus Christ. And everyone
who comes by this door, comes by Jesus Christ, he sees that
God is God. And he sits on his throne, sovereignly
ruling over all things. When a man comes to see God by
Jesus Christ, we come by this door because he is the only access
to God. If you want to know anything
about God, how is it that you can know anything at all about
God? If the only way that any man
in this place or in any other place can know God is only by
Jesus Christ. That's it. You won't know God
any other way. You can't look at a tree and
find God. Can't do it. The tree gives a
man no excuse because that testifies there is a God, but that does
in no way describe God. The only way you'll ever see
God, the only way you'll ever have access to God is by Jesus
Christ. That's it. That's it. There's
no other way. No other door. And all who go
through this door, they come in and find pasture. You know,
I find a lot to feed on right here. And I imagine I could camp
here for a little while, but I'm not going to. I can camp
here all day. But friends, you go in this door
and you see the sovereignty and the glorious King who is God,
the only true and living God. Now, believers, let this vision
now be our solace, our comfort, our joy and our peace. Let this be our joy that the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth. God reigns, believer, and all
other gods are nothing in comparison to Him. He is the only true God. There are not multiple gods.
There's not the God of your opinion and the God of my opinion. There's
only one God. And He sits on the throne of
heaven. John says, I saw Him. There He is. He's on the throne.
And He rules. He reigns. Our God is in the
heavens on His throne and hath done whatsoever He hath pleased. God does whatsoever He hath pleased." This is the God that we worship. This is the God that John saw.
And not only did John see God sitting on His throne, but he
also saw this. He saw 24 seats and 24 elders. Now these, my
friends, represent all of the church of God. So when you read
of these 24 elders, what you're reading of is every one of God's
elect people. You have 12 tribes of Israel
and 12 apostles. New Testament and Old Testament
saints are all here pictured and represented. And you know
what should give us comfort about this? There were 24 seats and
none of them were empty. There were 24 seats! designed
specifically for 24 elders. There was not 25 seats and 24
elders, and there were not 27 elders and 24 seats. This is
not like the cakewalk. You know, you do those little
cakewalks where there's only like so many chairs and somebody gets
knocked out? No! There's exactly 24 seats
and exactly 24 elders. This tells us that everyone of
God's elect, everyone that God chose, everyone that Christ redeemed,
everyone that the Spirit called, they shall come to heaven and
be with God and surround Him in His throne. That should bring
you most great comfort, friends, that no one's going to take your
seat. Your seat is yours. I didn't mean that pew, so don't
get comfortable there. We have visitors, make sure that
you let them sit in your pew. It's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about heaven and your seat is there, prepared. Jesus said this, this is the
Father's will which I sent Me. You want to know God's will?
Here it is. That of all He has given Me, I should lose nothing, but raise
it up again the last day." Then now, I want us to see how they're
dressed. He said that there were four
twenty-four elders, and they were clothed in white raiments
and had on their heads crowns of gold. This speaks of the perfection
or the holiness of God's elect. You see, these elect, these elders,
could in no way stand before the presence of God unless they
were in these white robes. You remember the wedding feast
parable? That man that came in and he didn't have the right
robe? He didn't have the right garment?
Friends, if you do not have the garment of Jesus Christ and His
righteousness, you will be cast out. But all His saints will
have that white robe. They'll be holy. They'll be blameless. Because this is how He determined
it to be. He says, according in Ephesians
1, He says, according as He had chosen us in Him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame. That's what He said. He said,
I chose you so that you would be holy. and without blame before
me." Now, that's wonderful. And not only that, not only were
they holy and blameless, but they had crowns. Now, don't let
this fool you. This is not crowns of righteousness
for all the wonderful little deeds you do. God's not going
to give you a certain crown for knocking on the next-door neighbor's
house and giving them bread. You're supposed to do that anyway.
That's something we're talking about being reasonable. That's
just reasonable for us to be kind, isn't it? It's reasonable
for us to give bread to the hungry and clothes to the naked. That's
reasonable. We don't need crowns for that.
These are crowns of life. Paul said, I'll receive a crown
of life which the righteous judge shall give me. And notice, these crowns were
all equal. Every one of them had a crown. Not one guy had
ten crowns and another guy had three. No, everyone had a crown. Everyone had a crown, and that's
the crown of life that God gives. For He has said that thou hast
made us to be kings and priests. Isn't that what He made us? Every
one of you that believe, you are a king and a priest. unto God." Now isn't that something?
That's amazing. And next, John saw these beasts.
Look at this in verse 6. He says, And before the throne
was like a sea of glass, like unto crystal. And in the midst
of the throne and round about the throne there were four beasts,
full of eyes, before and behind. And then go down to verse 8,
and you'll see what these beasts did down at the last part. It
says, "...and they rested not day and night, saying, Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come."
These beasts, my friend, represent all true and faithful preachers
of the gospel. That's who they are. These are
the beasts. You see, God... gives His preachers
to be beasts of burden. You see, it is my burden, it
is my privilege and burden to deliver unto you the message
of the Gospel. To declare unto you the person
and character of God. Notice, they declared His character. Holy, holy, holy. Friends, I declare unto you the
thrice holy God, whom your soul will have to deal with. You will
have to stand before this holy God. And my friends, this God is not
only holy, He is also almighty and powerful. I preach the attributes
of God. His omnipotence. His omnipresence. God is powerful. He's everywhere
at once. He knows all things. He's omniscient. He's almighty. You can't hold your thoughts
from Him. You hold your thoughts from me, and I can hold my thoughts
from you. You can't escape Him. He knows all about you. You fool me, you won't fool Him. He is God, and He is holy, and
everyone that stands before Him must be as holy as He is. Without holiness, no man can
approach unto God. God is holy, and you must be
holy. We declare God as almighty, and
we also declare God as eternal, which was, which is, and which
is to come. Now friends, I don't even have
the inclination to begin to understand that, which was without beginning,
which is even now and which always shall be. God Almighty. And this was the message of the
beast and the elders And what was the result of this message?
When they preached that message, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
which was, which is, which is to come, you know what the elders
did? They got up, threw their crowns at His feet and bowed
down as fast as they could. Every one of them bowed down
before this Lord and God of heaven. They cast their crowns at His
sovereign feet of the Lord God who sits upon His sovereign throne.
Now friends, just the very limited thing I've given you, is that
not glorious? Is that not beautiful to you? It is to me. It's assuring
to me. It's comforting to me to know
that my God reigns. And who's going to knock Him
off His throne? No one. No one. And this moves
my heart to cry just like them in verse 11, Thou art worthy! O Lord, to receive glory and
honor and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy
pleasure they were created." This morning, my little girl
was asking me questions, and she asked me the question, why
did God make us? Why did God do this? Why did
God do that? Why does God allow me to cut
my finger or to hurt myself? The only answer I could possibly
give to such a question as that is this, for His own glory. Everything, everything that happens in time
and eternity is for the sole purpose of God receiving the
glory from His creatures. Everything is for His own glory. You see, man's religion is all
about men. What God can do for you, you
know. What you can do for God. You
know, poor God, He needs your help. He needs you to do something
for Him. Surely you've got to do something
for God. No, friends. You need God to
do something for you. My God does all things for His
own glory. Everything is for His own glory. And so this morning, if you walk
out of here believing in Christ, it's for the glory of God. And
if you don't, it's for the glory of God. Everything is for His
glory. Everything. Number two, he noticed a book. Look at this in chapter 5 and
verse 1. He said, And I saw in the right
hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within, and on
the back side sealed with seven seals. Now John here cannot but
look to the throne. And when he looks to the throne,
he cannot help but notice a book. And this book, he said this book
was full. It must have been thick, he said.
This book was written on the inside and on the backside. It
was written all over the place. And not only was this book written
in full, this book was sealed up with seven seals. We seal our letters, but man,
that really don't have any effect, does it? People can go through
our mail and not really have much of a consequence. But in
this day, in John's day, if a king were to send a letter to someone,
a magistrate, and send his decrees, he would take a stick of wax
and he would melt it over the letter and he would take his
ring and he would imprint his seal, his ring seal, into that
letter. And that letter was sealed. And
I'll tell you, if a man opened that letter, he would be executed
for high treason if it was not for him. If that letter was not
to you, you opened that letter and you're in trouble. You see, kings of the earth,
they sealed it with one seal. My friends, this was sealed with
perfection. That number seven is a number
of perfection. This seal was sealed to perfection
with the insignia of God Almighty on it. It's closed. The book was closed
and it was sealed tight. And it was in the right hand
of God and God had it. This book, my friends, is none
other than the book of God's eternal decrees. That's what
this book is. This book is the book of all
of God's actions in time and eternity. This book has to do
with the eternal decrees of God's election. the purpose of God
in salvation, the providential decrees of God in time. In this book, it is revealed
the mystery of how it is that God can still be God, still be
just, and accept worthless worms of sinners like we are. That's
what's in this book. That's what was in the book of
the right hand of God. It was sealed up. It was a mystery. How is it that I can stand before
such a holy God? Sealed. Sealed up. And so then the angel in the
next verse asked a question. He says, and I saw a strong angel,
not just any angel, I saw a strong angel. Proclaiming with a loud
voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals
thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in
earth, nor under the earth was able to open the book and not
even look on it." It's one thing not to be able to open it. It's
altogether different when you can't even look on it. How in
the world could you open it? How in the world is it possible
for you to take it if you can't even look on it? And so John,
when this is given to him, he says, he began to weep. Friends,
this reveals the greatness of the fall of man and the greatness
of God's holiness. That's what that reveals. Not one of you. Not myself. are able to understand the things
of God by ourselves. We're not worthy. We're not worthy
to understand the things of God. We're not worthy to look into
the things of God. Not to mention, we're not able. We're not worthy and we're not
able. This reveals, God, the great
depravity of man by nature and the great holiness of God. Who
then is worthy to approach the throne of God? You? Are you worthy
to approach God Himself in your works? Are you able? Oh, you'll be there, but are
you able to stand? I never forget the picture of
that tsunami that came in Indonesia, that man standing on the sea,
looking up at that wall of water. He was standing there, but can
he stand when the wave comes? No, it crushed him. And friends,
if you stand before God in your own righteousness, in your own
goodness, the wave of God's wrath, the wave of God's justice will
roll over you and you will have no power to stand. You're not
able, you're not worthy to stand before God. Who is worthy then
to approach and stand before God? Even those with white robes bowed
down, didn't they? And this moved John to weep and
to see the book of God's grace, but found no one able to open
it. The hope, the despair of John
at this point, seeing that mercy was there, but he couldn't reach
it. He knew that in the book there
was salvation, but he couldn't reach it. He couldn't reach out.
It was beyond his grasp. He was unable and unworthy. And
he began to weep, began to cry. Friends, no one is able to open
this book. And if no man ever opened this
book, there would be no hope for any of us. Unless someone come and mediate. Unless someone come and stand
before a holy God and stand between us and Him. Someone has to take
the book. And someone has to open the book. And someone has to loose the
seals of the book so that we can see these things. So we can
enter into these things. And someone has to teach us. We can't know it ourselves. If all we had to hope in was
our best deeds, our best worship, pick the Sunday you felt the
holiest and try to take that before God. Take your best sincere effort
that you have put forth and you try to hold that in the holiness
of God and it will melt away in His wrath. You're unworthy,
unholy. Man, if I close the book there,
we should all weep with John. But the book doesn't end there. The book doesn't stop there,
does it? One of the elders, he saw John weeping, and he said,
hey, why are you crying? Why are you crying? Don't weep. It's okay. There's one. There's one! And He hath prevailed. I love that word. Triumphantly
prevailed. And I like it because it's past
tense. He hath already prevailed to open the book and loose the
seals thereof. And this is the message of hope
I deliver to all men today. God doth have a book. A book
full of names and events. A book full of sovereign election. A book full of the set number
of people that God in grace has chosen to save. A book that reveals
to us how it is He will save them. A book that shows us that
He will redeem His people from their sins. And how He will make
them holy. And how He will pardon all their
iniquity. That's what's in the book. And
yes, my friends, one has prevailed and to open the book, and only
one. And only one. And I want us to notice that
this book, he said, is written on the inside and outside, is
full. In other words, there's no room for chance or luck in
this book. This book is written all over
and there's no room for error. There's no room for chance. God
left nothing to chance. Nothing. But everything was done. The
book's finished. The book's already finished. It's full. So don't weep. For there is One that hath prevailed
to open the book and to declare it." And who is that? That's
the third thing John noticed. He not only noticed the throne,
he not only noticed the book, but he noticed the Lamb. Look
at this, in verse 6 of chapter 5, and he says, In the midst of the throne, and
of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, in the midst
of God's preachers, in the midst of God's church, stood a lamb
as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which
are seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth." Here's John, full of tears. And through the veil of his tears,
he hears the message of the elder, don't weep, there's one. And
as he starts to wipe his eyes and look up, he beholds a prominent
figure. A strange figure. A slain lamb. A slain lamb. in the middle of
the throne. This lamb, though it is slain,
is seated on the throne. He beholds this slain lamb. And friends, in time past, God
has given us many pictures of slain lambs. But the most prominent
one that I think of is the Passover. You remember when the people
of Israel were in bondage to the nation of Egypt? And God
sent that last plague, the plague of the Passover. And He sent
His angel of death over Egypt. He said, I'm going to send the
angel of death. And whoever does not have the blood of the Passover
lamb on the door, they took that lamb, they killed it, they put
the blood on the door. And whoever did not have the
blood God went in and killed the firstborn of every house. But, whosoever had the blood,
the angel passed over that house. That's why it's called the Passover.
Not very complicated, is it? Not very. Very simple picture,
isn't it? You can all see that. Every little
child understands the Passover. But it has a spiritual significance. It teaches us something about
God and about how it is to be passed over in the judgment of
God. How the judgment of God is passed
over us. How? Without the shedding of
blood, there is no remission of sins. Without the shedding of blood
of an innocent victim, My friends, there is no remission
of sins. But we know that the blood of
bulls and goats never took away sin. They only pictured something. They were only a type, a shadow,
a mystery of something that was to come. They were only a type and a shadow,
a picture of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. He is the Lamb of
God. Isn't that what John said when
he saw Him the first time? Coming through Jordan, he said, Behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Behold the Lamb of God. You see
this Lamb. And John, when he sees this lamb,
he notices that the lamb is going toward the throne of God, as
he's there before the throne of God. And God has the book,
and he reaches up, and he takes the book. I like that. Oh man,
no one's worthy to look at it. No one's worthy to take it. And
what does he do? He stands up, faces God, and
takes the book from his hand. How could he do that? How could
he stand before God and take the book when nobody else was
worthy? Because he earned it. He earned it! He merited the
right to stand before the face of God and take the book of God's
providences. He by His obedience is worthy
to take the book of God's decrees, and because of His blood, He
was able to open the seals of this book. And so by His blood
and righteousness alone, He has the right to open the book. Let me ask you this, is there
any here who desire to see The book of God's salvation. Is there any here that would
know if they are in that book? If their names are written in
the book of God's eternal election, would you like to know that? I talked to a man the other day,
he says, well, how do you know? How do you know? God's Word. God's Word tells me so. Here's
a book and God has a people. Would you know if your name is
there? Then I tell you, if you want
to know anything of God's salvation, you must behold the Lamb. You
must see the Lamb of God as your only hope. He alone can reveal to you God. He alone can manifest to you
your sin, your unrighteousness and God's holiness. He alone
can forgive you of your iniquities. He alone can do these things. He said, no man knoweth the Father
save the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him. You see, the Son in sovereign
grace reveals His Father to whomsoever He wills. You and I may only know God by
the grace of the Son to reveal Him. He alone has declared the
Godhead. He alone has all power to manifest
God. That's what it says here. Look
at that in our text again. He says He had seven horns. Man,
that looks strange. A slain lamb with seven horns
and seven eyes. This just simply means power.
Horns represent power. And He has perfect power. Is
there anyone who needs salvation? The Lamb has perfect power to
save anyone He will. He has perfect power. And all
the elect were given to Him in eternity. And in time, He came to be their
Redeemer, to be their Passover Lamb. And so when He died, He
accomplished redemption and hath prevailed. How do I know He prevailed? The tomb is empty. God raised Him from the dead
to manifest to all men that He was satisfied with the blood
of Christ. Satisfied. He shall see of the
travail of His soul and be what? Satisfied. God was satisfied
with Him. Do you long to be in this number?
Then I tell you right now, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe Him. Trust Him. Don't put your faith in your
faith. That doesn't do anything. Your
faith doesn't save you. But my friends, faith is only
the channel by which salvation comes. You must look to Christ
and see that He has done everything. If you want a Jesus that allows
you to do your part, and He do His part, And friends, you have
no salvation. There is no hope in a Jesus of
that nature. You see, I have faith in Jesus who accomplished
my salvation. He didn't make it possible. He
did it. He did it. He accomplished my salvation.
That's who I believe in. Do you? Do you rest in that Christ? Oh, my friends, there's great
hope in Him. There's great confidence to be had in Him. And so now
you who do believe, you who have still and do still behold the
Lamb of God, have this hope, have this confidence that He
hath prevailed to open the book and redeem us by His blood unto
God. And we, like these elders, don't
we bow down before Him? I do. I bow before Christ and
say, Thou art worthy. You're worthy of praise and glory.
I worship the God-man mediator, Jesus Christ. And my friends,
this Lamb is seated on the throne of God. Now, if the Lamb of God,
Jesus Christ, had done all this for me, if He had been all my
righteousness, if He has all my redemption, Is there anything that He will
not do to bring me to Himself? He'll say, that's too much. Is there anything too hard now
to get us to Himself? No. My friends, He's seated on
the throne and everything that happens to you happens according
to His sovereign decrees. Everything. Nothing happens by
chance. Everything happens by divine
providence. That's what those seven eyes
are. They see everything. They see everything and his power
moves everything. And so when he, the lamb comes
in, now John sees something, he starts to see him opening
seals. And I'll tell you, I'm excited about these. These things,
I could... Man, I wish I could give you everything. This is
so wonderful. These seals, every one of these
seals are the providences of God. They're not something that
happens in time. People try to put this in a timeline.
They say, well, this is what He means by wars, and this period
He means famine, and this... No! These are the providences
of God that happen to us all. What was the first seal? Look
in chapter 6 in verse 1. He opens the first seal and he
sees this. And to verse 2 he says, I saw and behold a white
horse and him that sat on it had a bow and a crown was given
unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. That, my friend,
is Jesus Christ. That's what He is doing right
now. It's what He has done and what He is doing. And these arrows
are the gospel of God's grace and He aims the arrow at the
heart of the sinner and He hits the mark every time. Every time. He goes forth and He conquers
souls. Oh, He hath prevailed. And the
next seals, the second, the third and the fourth, you see the red
horse of war, the black horse of famine and the pale horse
of death. Friends, are we not constantly engaged in a warfare? You believers, are you not constantly
engaged in a warfare with your own self? I am constantly battling
sin, constantly at war with sin, constantly at war with the world,
constantly at war with Satan. We are constantly seeing the
red horse of war every single day. And hath not the church
of God seen the black horse of the famine of the Word of God?
We are in a day, my friends, like none other in so many years. This is a drought of famine for
the Word of God. You, my friend, have come to
a place of a small oasis in a vast desert. A vast desert. Go if you must. Go and drink the sands of false
freewill works religion if you won't. But God has placed a watering
hole here, in this place, to give His Word of refreshment
to His people. Have we not seen famine? Yes,
we have. And shall we not all see the pale horse of death?
Unless the Lord comes, you will. We all will see death. And friends,
don't we die daily? Isn't that part of the Christian
life? To die to self daily? Yes. To cast off the affections
and lusts of this body and this world? Do we not do that daily
by the divine providence of God? Yes. Yes. These are the providences
of God. And I like this. Look at verse
9. It says, And when he opened the
fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain
for the word of God and for the testimony they held. Don't buy
into this as just people that have died physically for the
Lord Jesus Christ. Are we not dead to sin? Have
we not died to self? Of course we have. We are all
martyrs. And notice this, when the dark
providences of God come, when those horses of providence come
and they're dark, where are the saints found? Under the altar. They're under the altar. They're
under Christ. And what's on top of the altar?
Blood. And what's on top of the blood?
God. Oh, my friends, what a wonderful
picture that is. Where do you go when trouble
comes? The altar. I hide myself in the
altar of Jesus Christ. I hang on to the horns of the
altar and plead for mercy by the blood of Christ. This is
where suffering saints go. So friend, in this time of heartache,
the Scripture tells us in Acts 14.22, that we must, through
much tribulation, enter into the kingdom of God. Why do we think when things happen
to us, why do we think it's strange? When we get hit and we get blindsided
by something, you believers, why are we thinking this is strange?
Is this not what God says we should go through? I'll tell
you what, I'd much rather go through the seals than the trumpets.
The trumpets which are to come are the judgments of God on the
lost. The seals are the providence
of God on His saints. And praise God for them because
all these providences are for our good. Romans 8.28, works all things together for
the good of them who love God, to them who are the called according
to His purpose, all things. War, famine, and death are for
your good." Well, that sounds mysterious.
Not if the book's been opened. Not if you see the book. It's
not strange. And lastly, let's notice the
result real quick. They sang a song. Look at this
in verse 9 of chapter 5. This is the song of the redeemed.
It says, And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy
to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for Thou wast
slain and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every
kindred and tongue and people and nation. Friends, this is
the true heart song of every sinner redeemed by the grace
of God. This is my song. And my song is, thou art worthy. Man's song is, I'm worthy. I'm
worthy. Oh, how I love Jesus. It's all about their love. It's
all about their decisions. It's all about their works. Not
my song. My song is thou art worthy because
thou was slain. And because he was slain, I'm
not going to be. Isn't that good? Isn't that good? It is to you
who are believers. It's good. This is our song that
thou art worthy because thou hast redeemed us to God. And praise God, He has redeemed
us out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and tribe, and people. And this tells us of His success.
Once again, it beams of His success. He didn't say He saved every
nation, kindred, tongue, and tribe of people, did He? He says,
out of every nation, kindred, tongue, tribe, and people. And all those He did save and
redeem. He did redeem them unto God. And they are secure. They're secure. I pray that God would graciously,
by His mercy and Spirit, let us see the throne. And Him that sat on the throne
is God. Let us see the book. God's providences,
God's grace, God's mercy, God's salvation was sealed in a mystery,
but now it's open. The Lamb hath prevailed and opened
the book. And friends, all who believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, I know this, that the Lamb who sits on the
throne has redeemed them. And they are safe under His wing,
no matter what providence brings. I pray that God blesses to your
hearts. Let's stand. We'll be dismissed in prayer.