Revelation chapter 19. We're going to look at a few
things in verses 1 through 6, but just prior to that, I want
to back up to a couple of things left over from the 18th chapter
of the book of Revelation and all of the merchandise that is
so prominent in the religion of the world, Babylon, the great.
that merchandise that it has, and very seldom do we find that
that merchandise is physical. By and large, we find that that
merchandise has something to do with something spiritual,
even though most of it or all of it has nothing to do with
our spiritual well-being. It is pawned off as being spiritual. In that passage of scripture,
the Holy Spirit caused John to write with regard to God's people
to come out. And we know that when God calls
his people, he calls them with such strength and with such power
and with such effectualness that they are brought out of that
religion of Babylon. And those merchandise items pale
compared to the truth that we have in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But I'd just like to read four or five verses of scripture that
have to do with, the Old Testament calls them a mixed multitude.
Now, so often we hear the church termed, and I have to go down
to the definition a little farther into the writing, and it's the
visible church. It's the people in this world
that have made some kind of profession of faith. And then we have to
qualify it, say, the spiritual church, or the real church, or
the believing church. That's just the way it is. We
have to qualify things and there is a part of the visible church
that is really Israel. There is a part of Israel that
is really Israel. I'm not talking about a country. I'm talking about people who
love God. who love the Lord. And there's
always a group in this group, in the group that are mixed multitude. And I'd just like to read a couple
of three verses about that over in the book of Exodus. Exodus
chapter 12. We read about this, and when
the children of Israel came out of Egypt, there was another group
of people with them, and they're identified in this passage of
scripture. And it is one of the reasons that we find in two or
three other places, one of the reasons that Israel had such
a difficult time was this mixed multitude. In Exodus chapter
12 and verse 38, the scriptures share this. And a mixed multitude,
back up to verse 37, the children of Israel journeyed from Ramesses
to Sukkoth, about 600,000 on foot that were men besides children. And a mixed multitude went up
also with them, and flocks and herds, even very much cattle. Now this mixed multitude was
made up of some of the Egyptians that left Egypt with Israel. And we find if we follow this
line, there were several times that there were some issues that
came up and the mixed multitude was right in the middle of it
leading the visible church down the Primrose Path, which identified
them, many of them, they didn't know the first thing about the
gospel. They were mixed multitude. And we go over to the New Testament
and we read about Ananias and Sapphira. They were in the middle
of the body. They were visible members. Over in the book of
Acts, chapter five, verses one and two, if you'd turn with me
there. Now I say this to say this. I wanted to bring this up to
say this. when God is pleased to save some
of the mixed multitude, when God is pleased to save some of
the Ananiasis and Sapphires, when God is pleased to save some
more of Israel, Lord, help us. And I'm talking about people
that may be our very acquaintance in our body. And I speak from
experience. People that may be in our very
body that God quickens and lets them know that they were not,
but now they are. God's people will rejoice with
them. They will rejoice with them in
this. They will not look a, well, you
know, you shouldn't have made that mistake. My goodness, it's
not a mistake. It's the grace of God being exercised,
that God would reveal to some people, to some mixed multitude,
to some Ananias and Sapphires. And it's not our part, as we
go through here, it's not our part to identify the tares. Not our part. We're not called
to do that. It is our part to preach the
gospel. Now, if they have to pull their
skirts down over their knees and can't make it, that's not
the point. That's not the point. The point
is not the clothes that we wear. The point is the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Notice with me here in Acts chapter
5, verses 1 and 2. But a certain man named Ananias
with Sapphira, his wife, sold the possession, kept back part
of the price. His wife also being privy to
it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet.
And now the problem is here, they lied to, Peter says, the
Holy Spirit. They lied to the Holy Spirit
and said, this is all we got out of it because they told people
this is all we got out of it. Now, if they were believers,
they would have said, we sold it for so much, we're giving
this much, we're keeping the other part. But they lied to
the Holy Spirit. They wanted the recognition for
what they had done. And Ananias and Sapphira's are
throughout the visible body. And thank God Almighty once in
a while God saves them. And it's our privilege to rejoice
that he saved them out of that. And that they are God's anointed,
they're God's people and we rejoice. And the past is forgotten and
we go on thanking God that he would one more time reach down
and save somebody. It tells us in 1 Corinthians
chapter 11, heresies, there's heresies among you, and they
must be there. We don't like it. We like it
when it's just going along smooth, but heresies will identify the
goats. Heresies will put them out in
the street. That's just the way it is. God
has ordained it that way. People will say, well, I just
don't think I believe what you believe. Well, I've got to the
point, you just have to show me in the Bible, because I want
to be right. Just show me. And you know, most of the time,
it's, well, it's in here somewhere. I know it's in here. I read it
one place or another. Sometime or another, I read it
here. Well, the gospel is important. And when God saves some of those
that we have called as heretics, it's time to rejoice with them.
Now, when God saved me, and I told the church, and they gave me
this amount of time to get out of the church parsonage, God
did a great big favor to me. I'll have to admit that. It hurt
at the time. I couldn't understand what was going on. But it was
the best thing, because he got me out of that religion. Now,
if it should happen here, the point I want to make is, let
us rejoice. Rejoice, and again I say rejoice. God would do that, would save
somebody. All right, and then in Matthew
chapter 13, Matthew chapter 13, there always will be a part of
the visible church that will cling to the merchandise of religion.
These are identified in scripture. It is not our job to try to identify
them. They are identified by the scripture
and God will deal with them according to his mercy and his grace and
his judgment. That's all. But here in Matthew
chapter 13, there is a parable and it is brought up that there's
a bunch of tears out in the grain field. And the disciples or the
people that take care of the grain field says, give us an
opportunity and we'll go take care of this junk. Now look what
the Lord had to say in Matthew 13 verse 24. Matthew 13, verse 24. Another
parable put he forth unto them, saying, the kingdom of heaven
is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. But while
he slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and
went his way. And when the blade was sprung
up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the
servants of the householder came and said unto him, sir, didst
thou not sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath
it tares? He saith unto them, An enemy
hath done this. The servant said unto him, Wilt
thou then that we go and gather them up? And he says, No, lest
while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with
them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the
time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together
first the tares, and bind them in bundles, and burn them, but
gather the wheat into my barn. So he says, Leave them alone.
It's not our job. Leave them alone. It's not our
job. So, and God's, God doesn't save tares, but he look, he saves
people who look like tares. He saves people. He never saves
goats. He never transforms goats into
sheep. That's evolution. He only saves
lost sheep. But you and I both know that
there was a time we acted like goats. And when he saved us,
he identified us as lost sheep being saved by him. And he saves lost sheep and makes
them his sheep, and he causes them to be fed. As we have heard
read there in the Bible class, feed my sheep, feed my lambs,
feed my sheep. But the terrors, leave them alone,
he'll take care of them. By and large, many of them will
leave. They'll go somewhere else. They just can't be satisfied
with the word. And some will stick out to the
end. And the Lord says, I'll take care of them. It's not your
job. It's not your job. It's not your job. And if the
Lord should save some that have acted like tares but were really
sheep, then it's the privilege of the body of Christ to rejoice
that he saved another sheep. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And that just gets us right into
the next chapter here in the book of Revelation. After all
has been said, after all has been done up to this point in
the book of Revelation, we find that there's only one thing that
the church can do. And it's mentioned in verses
one through six of the 19th chapter, only one thing. Babylon the Great
has fallen. One thing the church can do.
Judgment has fallen upon those without Christ. Only one thing
the church can do. All the governments have been
upon his shoulder. Only one thing that the church
can do and it's brought out here in verses one through six of
this 19th chapter. And after these things, I heard
a great voice of much people in heaven saying, hallelujah.
That's the only thing the church can do. There is nothing that
is more befitting all of these things that God has done than
for the church to say, praise ye the Lord. He has accomplished
His purpose. He has done what He said He would
do. He is moving in the direction
He said He would move. He has predestined these things
and they're coming to pass. He has worked them out according
to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel
of His own will, and the church stands by and says, Alleluia! Hallelujah. This is what the
church's responsibility and job is, praising God. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord for what he has
accomplished. Now, many things have happened
between Chapter 1 and Chapter 19 at this point, and as the
reflection of the church goes over that all, he says, can't
say but one word, hallelujah. Now under that one word, we read
this, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord
our God. Wow! Everything that we are so
dependent upon is found only in the Lord, and hallelujah! Look at what He's done. Look
at what He's doing. Look at what He shall do. As
we come to the conclusion of this book, and we have just a
few chapters left, we can say from this point, as those people
look back, they can say, hallelujah! As they looked at their present
state, they could say hallelujah. And as they looked ahead and
saw the conclusion of the matter, they could say hallelujah. Praise
ye the Lord. He is in charge and he's working
all things after the counsel of his own will. And the church
has done that from the very beginning. I can hear Abel out there as
he offered that sacrifice, that lamb that represented the lamb
of God, that lamb that represented the lamb that was slain from
the foundation of the world. What was going through his heart?
Hallelujah. This is a picture of my substitute. This is the one that deals with
sin as it has to be dealt with. This is the one that will raise
from the dead as a victorious warrior over sin, death, hell,
and the grave, and he too could say, hallelujah. Goes on to tell us in this passage
of scripture, verse two, for true and righteous are his judgments. Oh, there's not going to be anybody
saying there at that day. Oh my, I should have spoke to
that one. Oh my, I should have spoke to that one. Oh my. My
goodness. The scriptures tell us true and
righteous are his judgments. And he's going to do a lot of
that. He has done it. What does he say there about
those on the left hand? depart go what to a place that's
been prepared to the right hand welcome to the place that has
been prepared from you for you from the foundation of the world
True and righteous are thy judgments. You're the one in charge of this.
You're the one that knows the heart. You're the one that has
dealt with the people. You are the one. True and righteous
are his judgments, for he hath judged the great whore which
did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged
the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said,
woo, hallelujah. Hallelujah, which is the same
thing. Alleluia, is what they said. And her smoke rose up forever
and ever. And the four and twenty elders
and four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the
throne saying, Amen, Alleluia. Praise the Lord. You can't say
it enough if it comes from your heart. If it's just trite words,
be silent. If it's from your heart, You
can't say it enough, and most of the time we say it is in our
private prayer closet. That's where we truly praise
our God, not in front of people, but in our prayer closet, thanking
God, praising God, hallelujah. Praise God Almighty for all that
He has done and all that He has said, and praise Him for His
word, and praise Him for His judgment, and praise Him for
His purpose, and praise Him for dealing with that great machine. religion of the world that we
were captivated by and held by. It is a jail. It's a prison. It's being captive and held captive. To have God Almighty come and
release the grimy, grubby fingers of that off of us and set us
free and cause us to look to God, we too are like these. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. They worship God that was on
the throne. In verse 5, and a voice came
out of the throne saying, praise our God, all ye servants, and
ye that fear him, both small and great. Praise our God. After all the words of this book
up to this point, to read these great words, this great commentary
on this book and all the Bible, to see the activity of God in
all places among all nations, calling out all his people from
all their sin, the church rejoices and says, hallelujah. The church doesn't express fear
here in the presence of God. They say hallelujah. They don't
make some foolish statements as they stand there. Hallelujah. You can't make a foolish statement
when you have hallelujah on your lips. They did not try to change
these things. They simply said hallelujah. The work of God, the work of
God, how great. The church praise God, hallelujah. And for these verses, little
is said except praise. This is the church's response
to the acts of God. Go through the book of Acts.
What's the church's response to the acts of God? Summed up
in one word, hallelujah. His work is wonderful. His work
is grand. His work is glorious. It's victorious. There's never been a defeated
time. There's never been a black time.
There's never been a down time. God has always been doing according
to his purpose. There is nothing left out when
we say hallelujah. Hallelujah is mentioned in four
times in this short passage of scripture, and along with it
is a description of what we're saying hallelujah for. Salvation
and glory and honor and power belong to our God. What else
is there when it comes to spiritual needs? There's nothing left out
of these voices as they sing this praise to God. Everything
we need is provided by Almighty God in a capacity that He covers
us completely and totally with His great grace. True and righteous
are His judgments. Worship God, amen, and hallelujah. Praise our God, hallelujah, for
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Verse six, and I heard as it
were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters.
There's a number. God knows the definite number.
He tells us in the scriptures. He knows the definite number.
It's mentioned as a picture. I mean, there's 144,000. That's
a definite number. I like the number of fish that
were caught in that net that time. Was it 153 or 157? Definite
number. Why did God do that? I'm out
after all mine. And there is a definite number.
But in our view, there is a number that no man can number. We can't put a number to it.
But to him, it is a definite, absolute, not one short and not
one long number. His people, hallelujah, the Lord
God, omnipotent reigneth. as the voice of many thunders,
saying, Alleluia for the Lord God, omnipotent reigneth. Now
that word omnipotent, it's the only time in the New Testament
that this word is translated that way, but it is a good way
to translate it. In the other places found in
the scripture, and we're gonna look at a couple of them in just
a moment, in the other places in the New Testament where this
word is found, it is translated almighty. Now, I'm thankful that
the Bible tells us not only that he is the Almighty, but he shares
with us, he reveals to us, he gives us examples of him being
Almighty. He just doesn't use a word, but
he demonstrates that he's almighty. I'm convinced that when those
disciples were on that boat that was about to be broken up, and
the Lord God Almighty came up on the deck and silenced the
wind and the waves, they could say in their heart, What manner
of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey? And we could hear them sometime
later saying, the Lord God omnipotent, all powerful. He has no lack
of power. This word means ruler of all,
almighty. To have all strength. He who
holds sway over all things, the ruler of all, Almighty God. There's no way in this definition
that you could leave out that God lacks some power. It is in this definition and
it is in the verses and it is in the words of those verses
that God has all power. And that all power comes to his
purpose. That all power comes when he's
dealing with lost people. All power. It takes a God of
all power to deal with the people that are all dead. in every capacity,
an omnipotent God must and it is necessary that he be involved
to raise people that are absolutely dead in trespasses and sin. It
takes an almighty God. Less than that could not get
the job done. No one, even with great power,
was able in the ministry of the Lord Jesus to do what he did
with dead people. No one. If other people would
have been as Simeon or Simon and said, I'll pay money for
this. But he demonstrated that he is
the Lord God Almighty. He has the capacity in his voice
to raise a man that's been dead for four days. But he is no more
dead than the young man or the young girl that he raised from
the dead. We have no qualifying words with
regard to dead. We don't have someone deader
than someone else. They're all dead. dead and trespassing,
they're unable to come to God. They're unable to move towards
God. That's what the scripture so plainly tells us, that they
are not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So what do we need? Almighty
God. It takes Almighty God to deal
with someone who is Almighty dead. Altogether dead. So He created the heavens and
the earth. That's wonderful, and we examine
it, and we look at it, and we appreciate it. But it takes the
power of Almighty God to raise His people from the spiritual
dead and to give them eternal life. It is not in their capacity.
Any of that is not in their capacity. It must be dependent upon an
Almighty God. Turn with me, if you would, to
the second Corinthians. Second letter to the Corinthians,
chapter six. Second Corinthians, chapter six.
This is the only other place in the New Testament that this
word is used besides in the book of Revelation. Several times
in the book of Revelation, and how apropos. It is the revelation
of Jesus Christ. And if we're gonna spend seven
or eight times on this word, how better to spend it than in
the book of Revelation? The revelation of Jesus Christ.
He is the Lord God Almighty. 2 Corinthians chapter 6. 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse
18. And we'll be the father unto
you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
Almighty. How do people get to become the
children of God? He tells us how. He is the Lord
Almighty. He is the God Almighty. It's
the only way anybody. Now, if we have less than that,
if we have a God that is, well, He can create heaven and earth,
but that's where it stops, and the rest of the time it's up
to man, then we don't have full and complete salvation, because
it takes this God. It takes the Creator God to save
a people from their sins. It takes the God of creation,
the Lord God Almighty, Will and will be this part of the everlasting
covenant the new covenant a restatement of it will be a father unto you
And you shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty
There is no end to his power in fact the Lord Jesus said all
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth He is the ruler
of all there's nothing that is not found under his rule The
nightcrawlers The ants. Today we had a praying mantis
in our house. The praying mantis. The imps
of hell. The angels of glory. Satan himself. All false prophets. every lost sheep, every goat
ever brought into this world. He is the Lord God Almighty over
all. Nothing is out of his control. He who holds sway over all things. That's the only way he can promise
everlasting life. It's the only way that someone
can be saved from sin and be set free from sin. It is the
only way that someone can say, I'm a child of God, that he is
the Lord God Almighty. Now, if he isn't the Lord God
Almighty in salvation, then salvation The people that have a little
God have a little salvation and it won't get to the heavenlies
It's only satisfactory for this life and very poor for that I
He is the Lord, he holds sway over all things. He's the ruler
of all things. Turn with me to the book of Revelation
chapter one. Early on in the book of Revelation,
we met this term as we started our study in the book of Revelation.
God wanted us to know who we're looking at. He wanted us to know
that he is the Lord God Almighty. Who is the God of the tares?
The Lord God Almighty. Who's the God of the wheat? The
Lord God Almighty. Who's the God of the angels that
will collect the tares? The Lord God Almighty. Who's
in charge of the angels who will collect God's people? The Lord
God Almighty. It is from beginning to end.
There's never been a time that he has not ruled. We can never
say he's never ruled like he's ruled today. He's always ruled
like he's ruled today. Never been a time he hasn't ruled
like he has today. He's always been the Lord God
Almighty. When all the people, God said,
He reported on them. He says, they're only evil continually. I'm going to send a flood. The
only one that could do that is the Lord God Almighty. And God
is the only one that could send his angels down to those nefarious
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and pull out one man and his
two daughters. A wife came along for a while
with a man and two daughters. He said, who is this, the Lord
God Almighty? Those men outside wanted those
men on the inside. And who blinded them? The Lord
God Almighty. Who prescribed the sacrifices
through the Old Testament? The Lord God Almighty. Who gave
the law? The Lord God Almighty. He demonstrated
through the giving of His law the holiness of God, and he never
expected, they could not to begin with, and he never expected them
to keep it. It's a demonstration, you cannot keep it. All right, Revelation 1, verse
8, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith
the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty. Never been a time. He was not
that. Always has been. On the cross,
who's in charge of the world? The Lord God Almighty. Who was
in charge of those who pounded the nails through his hand? The
Lord God Almighty. Who was in charge of the planting
of that tree? The Lord God Almighty. Who's
in charge of Judas? The Lord God Almighty is in charge
of him. I have lost none except the son
of perdition, and it was purposed that way. The Lord God Almighty. Who prescribed in his infinite
wisdom? that one quarter of this earth's
population would die at the hand of his brother, the Lord God
Almighty. Cain killed his brother Abel.
Lord God Almighty. He is the Almighty. Turn with
me to chapter 4 and verse 8 of the book of Revelation. No better
place to put his stamp across the whole message. And here in
the book of Revelation, when he talks about himself being
the Lord God Almighty, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. He is
the Lord God Almighty. Revelation chapter four, verse
eight, we read these, the four beasts, each with six wings about
them and are full of eyes within, and they rest not day and night,
saying, holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, which was and is
and is to come. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God Almighty. Nothing ever out of place with
this Lord God Almighty. absolute reign in justice, reigns
by grace, reigns by mercy, reigns by justice. He's on his throne
and he reigns as he purposes. He's not influenced like we are
by our own self and our own heart. He is influenced only by his
eternal purpose. and Godhead. He's influenced
only by the redemption of his people. He's influenced only
by the covenant of grace. He is the Lord God Almighty. Chapter 11, verse 17, we read
here again this great stamp. set in the word of God about
the one we're dealing with, and the one we're looking to, and
the one that we're praying to. This one who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or think. This one who is
able to deal with us according to his mercy. This one, even
though we sin, he said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. Takes the Lord God Almighty to
do that. Boy, we go through tremors over
this. That guy, he used to be my friend.
Boy, but he did and I can't and I won't. Aren't you glad? He's the Lord God Almighty and
changes not. He's the Lord God Omnipotent
and he reigns. Revelation chapter 11 verse 17
saying we give thee. Thanks. Oh Lord God Almighty
Which art and was not to come because thou has taken to thee
thy great power and hath reigned Lord God Almighty we give thee.
Thanks. Oh Lord God Almighty. That's that's the only God that
really can be thanked Is the Lord God Almighty? The rest is a waste of breath,
a waste of breath. And in chapter 15 and verse 3,
chapter 15 and verse 3, they sing the song of Moses, the servant
of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, great and marvelous are
thy works, Lord God Almighty. There's only one that have great
and marvelous works, and that's the Lord God Almighty, how he
moved in Israel. A flinty rock, that's basalt. I was telling Brother Marvin
Stoniker, my wife used to work out at a small school, and she
came home one day and said, there's a rock that fell off the side
there, and it's down in the bar pit, and would you go bring that
home for me? I said, well, I'll go try. And I took an eight-pound
sledge out there, and I came down, and it go, ping, and just,
you know how that vibration through your hands? I'd never hit a flinty
rock like that in my life. Well, I worked on it for about
20 minutes, and I didn't even get a chip off of it, and I told
Nancy, you're going to have to admire it as you drive by, because
I can't get it home. Flinty Rock. You know what the
Lord God Almighty did with the Flinty Rock? He gave water to
six million people. Six million Jews out of a flinty
rock. He fed them boxcars per day of
quail. Boxcar, has to be measured in
boxcars. You're not gonna measure it in 12 ounce packages. Boxcar load of quail daily, manna
by the tens of thousands of gallons. And the only one that could do
this is the Lord God Almighty. And then when he came upon someone
like Saul of Tarsus, There's only one that could cause Saul
of Tarsus to ever know the grace of God, the Lord God Almighty. He came upon a flinty rock. He
plowed that flinty rock and broke down that to good soil and planted
his seed and brought forth fruit. The Lord God Almighty, wonderful
is His works. The church praises Him for His
works, His works of grace. Yeah, we thank Him for all the
food we get to eat and the places we get to live, but His work
of grace from eternity, His work of mercy, His work to His church,
the benefits to His church that causes them to rejoice in Him
and cry out, hallelujah! The Lord God Almighty, the Lord
God Omnipotent reigneth. And then in chapter 16, chapter
16, and in verse 7, it says, and I heard another out of the
altar say, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous
are thy judgments. He's the only one that can make
right judgments. And in that same chapter, it
says in verse 14, For they are the spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and to
the whole world, to gather them to the battle that great day
of God Almighty. Come on. He's uttering and issuing,
hey, bring it on. Because you're dealing with the
Lord God Almighty, and the church is behind him saying, Hallelujah. as he goes in against the hosts
and demons of hell with his own powerful blood. It's no wonder
that the songwriter wrote that there's power in the blood. Why? It's the Lord God Almighty. This
is powerful. And then in chapter 19 and verse
15, we've looked at verse six there just a moment. Chapter
19 and verse 15, we have it said again, and out of his mouth go
the sharp sword. That's his word. That's his word,
which that with it, he should smite the nations and he shall
rule with the rod of iron. And he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness of the wrath of almighty God. Look at his
works. His word, he has a sword, the
sword of the spirit, his word is all powerful. If I ever learn this, just share the word and leave. Just leave. That word is so powerful,
the Holy Spirit is almighty. He is able to take it and do
with it. We don't have to add any salt
or pepper. Preach the word, leave it alone. And then, chapter 21,
verse 22. And I saw no temple therein.
for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
What's that mean? That's the meeting place of the
church. Where do we really meet now? Where do we really meet
now? I know we meet here and it's
nice and comfortable. We're at the apex. We just, I
don't have enough sense whether to turn on the heat or the cooling,
you know? Right now, I wish I had turned
the cooling on just a little bit. We're at the apex. It's
a nice place, but where do we really meet? Where does our heart
meet? The throne of God. At the throne
of God, the Lord God Almighty. We meet at the throne of God.
His people worship Him at His throne. We worship the Lord God
Almighty. What does it say there? He's
the temple. He's the meeting house. He's
the meeting place. He is the Lord God Almighty,
and that's the only reason we're there. He is the Lord God Almighty. What did it take to deal with
all our sin? The Lord God Almighty. What did
it take to deal with all our violence? The Lord God Almighty.
What did it take to deal with Adam's fallen state in us? The Lord God Almighty. Nothing
else will do. It takes the Lord God Almighty.
It's out of our hands. We need the Lord God Almighty.
We need the one who has put into place His great redemptive purpose,
that's who we need. And His name is the Lord God
Almighty. The other place, He's the Lord
God Omnipotent reigneth. He has all power. He has nothing
held back. He rules over everything. There's
nothing that He doesn't rule over. I've watched some of those
nature films, down some of those deep, deep, deep, deep, not,
I'd never go there, some of those deep caverns, caves, way down
in the ground, pools of water, and you know what's in the middle
of them? Blind fish. They don't need any sight down
there, pitch dark. Who rules over them? Who brings
them the grasshoppers? The Lord God omnipotent, he reigneth. Who feeds the lions? The Lord
God omnipotent. Who feeds his people? Who saves
his people? The Lord God omnipotent. And
after all we've traveled through in this book, and as we swing
with this around this pivot point and look ahead at what's left,
we say as the church has said, hallelujah. Praise the Lord.