Revelation chapter 19, and we'll
be looking at verse 11 down through verse 16 or thereabouts. And
we have a glorious, glorious description of our Lord Jesus
Christ. I'm not using any particular
verse for a title. But we can call the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ as it says in verse 11, and we can call
the title to this message, the Lord Jesus Christ, His name is
faithful, faithful and true. Our Lord is faithful and true. I've noticed in reading these
verses, the character of our Lord Jesus Christ is described
by His name. We call Him the Lord. He's Jesus, our Savior, and He's
the Christ. He's the anointing of God. But
also we read here in these verses, Revelation 19 verse 11, His name
was called Faithful and True. And then in verse 13, He is called
The Word, capital W-O-R-D. He is the living Word of God. And we'll see what that means.
And then in verse 15, He is called Almighty God. In verse 17, He's called the
Great God. Now I tell you what great sinners
need. They need a great God. And we have a great Shepherd,
the Lord Jesus Christ. The great Shepherd, the Chief
Shepherd, the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for us. So
He is the faithful and true Savior, Mediator. He is the Word of God. Everything that we need to know
about God comes through the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Almighty
God, and then He's called in verse 16, He's King of Kings. He's Lord. Lord of all. Great or small, He is the Lord
of all. Great or small. Now all through
Scripture, the character and nature and deity of the Lord
Jesus Christ is put on full display for us to read, and meditate
upon. His name describes his character.
His name describes his conduct. For example, in our study in
the book of Revelation, 27 times the Lord Jesus Christ is named
in his sacrificial character. What is that name? The Lamb.
He's the Lamb of God, as John said, John the Baptist said,
the Lamb of God that takes away our sin. So we see the Lord Jesus
Christ in this revelation, this book we have, notice it's revelation,
singular, it's all about the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of
God. He's the fulfillment of every
sacrificial lamb. We know also in our study from
the Revelation that He is not only the Lamb, but the Lion. Now, that seemed like a contrast,
and it is. He is a mighty Lion, as the Lion
of the tribe of Judah, the kingly tribe, Lord of Lords, King of
Kings, and then He is the Lamb of God. He's a sacrifice, God's
sacrifice, to put away our sin. all through the scriptures. I
did a study years ago. If you have a knave's topical
Bible, you can go and look up all the names of the Lord Jesus
Christ, from Alpha to Omega. And I brought a series of messages
on his name. I think there were seven messages
I brought concerning his name, starting with A, the Advocate,
all the way through, all the way through the alphabet. But
I like this particular verse found in Isaiah 9. Unto us a
child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government
shall rest upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called
Wonderful. He is a wonderful Savior. Everything
about him is wonderful. I've told you before, but we
ought not use that word wonderful except in reference to the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is wonderful. He is a mighty
counselor. He's a wise counselor. He is
the mighty God. He is the everlasting Father.
He is the Prince of Peace. He's everything we need before
God. In this study in the revelation
of Jesus Christ, he's called the Alpha. He's called the Omega. He's the beginning and He's the
end. He's called the first and the
last. You see, in salvation, He's everything. Christ is all
and in all. Now, what a great God and Savior,
wonderful Savior, we have in the Lord Jesus Christ, who accomplished
all salvation for us. I mean, all of it. We don't participate
in the accomplice of salvation one bit. Not one whit. Not one thing. Do we contribute
or accomplish? He accomplished all salvation
for us. And he gives us everything we need. Wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. Now, what we see in the last
verses of Revelation 19 is a glorious second coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We see a vivid, glorious description
of his person, holy, almighty, and his complete victory he has
over all enemies. In verse 19 of this chapter,
down through verse 21, all those who are his enemies suffer the
eternal, just, holy wrath of God. I don't want to be in that company.
I want to be numbered among the Lord's people. The Lord Jesus
Christ is coming again. He has won the complete victory
for us. The Lord Jesus Christ will come
again, and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second
time without sin unto salvation. He came the first time to put
away our sin. He's coming back the second time
to receive us unto Himself, and there shall we ever be with the
Lord. Now, what a privilege we have
in looking to the Lord Jesus Christ who is coming. I'm not
looking for a time and a place. I'm looking for a person who
is coming. We're going to study in the book of Titus in a few
weeks, in Titus chapter 2, looking for that blessed hope and glorious
appearing of the great God, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Who's coming
back? He's coming back. Who is He?
The great God, our Savior. The second coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ will come. In chapter 1 of Revelation, we
read and study, it says, Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every
eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him, and all kindreds
of the earth shall wail because of him. Behold, he cometh. He's coming back. He's coming
back to receive us unto himself. In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel, With the trump of God and the
dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the cloud to meet the
Lord in the air. So shall we ever be with the
Lord. Comfort yourself together with
these words. The Lord is coming back to receive
us unto himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming
back to take vengeance on them that know not God, that obey
not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord
and from the glory of his power. That's what we read when we set
the table, when we set the table for his coming. He will come back soon. Now the
Lord will come back, and when He comes back, it won't be a
secret thing. He shall descend with a trumpet,
with the sound of an archangel. He's coming back in glorious
way to receive us unto Himself. Even so, what does it say? How
does this book end? How does the whole Bible end?
Turn a couple pages. Chapter 22, verse 20. Chapter
22, verse 20. He would testify these things,
saying, sayeth, Surely I come quickly. Amen, even so. Come. He comes quickly. In the hour you think not. The
Son of Man coming. I'm looking for Him who was coming.
The blessed Lord Jesus Christ. Now, in verse 11, John sees this vision
of heaven opened. This vision, this revelation
of Jesus Christ. He sees heaven opened. He sees
the very throne of God. And John looks into the very
dwellings of God Almighty and behold the beauty and glory of
the blessed Redeemer, God our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
enthroned upon the throne. There he sits in heaven. What's
he doing there? He ever lives to make intercession
for us. He ever lives as our advocate,
our mediator. Right now, he's interceding for
us. Now, let's take a look at some
of these things that are given to us. This vision that John
gives us, again, it's symbolic language. So that we can relate
to it in some manner, in some way. I thought about another
scripture. You remember when Paul, in 2
Corinthians chapter 12, said that he was caught up to the
third heaven, remember? And he said that he heard words
that were not lawful to utter. But here, when John sees heaven
open, we have a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, given
to us in terms and words that we can relate to. I can relate
to a horse, a powerful horse, that's coming, and these crowns
on his head, and his eyes a flame of fire. Again, symbolic language,
symbolizing his power and his glory. The Lord Jesus Christ
comes back upon this white horse. I saw heaven open, and behold,
a white horse. A white horse, and he that sat
upon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness
he does judge, and he does make war. Now, we've seen this before. The Lord Jesus Christ upon this
white stallion, this white horse. Turn back to Revelation chapter
6, verse 1. And I saw, when the Lamb opened
one of the seven seals, and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder,
and one of the four beasts saying, Come and see, and behold, I saw,
and behold, a white horse. You got it? Chapter 6, verse
2. There's that white horse again. And he that sat on him had a
bow and a crown, was given unto him that he went forth conquering
and to conquer." Now, as I told you before, I think that's the
key to understanding this book. He goes forth conquering and
to conquer. He has never lost a battle. He is victorious over all his
enemies. The horse here, and especially
the white horse, the horse represents his power. His power and dominion,
which is complete and total over all things, over all places,
over all people. You remember chapter 19, verse
6? Look right there, across the
page. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude,
as a voice of many waters, as a voice of almighty thunderings,
saying, Hallelujah for the Lord God Omnipotent. What does He
do? He reigns. He's a sovereign. He has absolute dominion from
sea to sea. Whatsoever the Lord please, that's
what He does in heaven, earth, sea, and all deep places. All
the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. He doeth
according to His will. in the army of heaven, and among
the inhabitants of this earth, and none can stay his hand or
say unto him what doest thou. He has all power. That's what
that horse is symbolic of. The gospel of Christ is a power
of God unto salvation. What does the whiteness of this
horse represent? His holiness. White always represents
his holiness, his purity. His judgment throne is white
and holy. Remember when Isaiah has that
vision of the Lord Jesus Christ in Isaiah chapter 6, when he
sees the Lord high and lifted up, and no seraphim and cherubim? What did they say? They didn't
say, love, love, love. They said, God is holy, holy,
holy, Lord God Almighty. So, the horse represents His
power. The whiteness of the horse represents
His holiness. God is holy. That's the chief
attribute of God. It's not love. It's holiness
to the Lord. His holy love. His holy mercy. His holy grace. The Lord our God is holy. And
then the rider of the horse has a name, verse 11. He's faithful
and he's true. Can the Lord our God be anything
less than faithful and true? And in righteousness, everything
He does is in righteousness. You know, one of His names in
Scripture is called Jehovah Sidcanu, one of those seven names that
we've talked about. Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will
provide. Jehovah Sidcanu, the Lord our Righteousness, that's
His name. He acts according to His holy
character and righteousness He does judge. Now let's look at
those two things. He's faithful. He's called in
Revelation 1, verse 5, the faithful witness. Christ is a faithful
servant. Behold My servant, in whom My
soul delighteth." Isaiah 42, 1. He's faithful to fulfill all
the covenant promises. All the promises of God in Him
are yes and in Him, amen. He's faithful to the Father to
finish the work of redemption. He said, Father, I've glorified
Thee on the earth. I've finished the work You gave
Me. He's faithful to His covenant people to redeem them by His
grace. He is a faithful God. You remember
in Galatians 2, knowing that a man is not justified by the
deeds of the law, but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.
It's upon his faithfulness that we rest, even we have believed
in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of
Christ. not by the deeds of the law.
For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. So he
is faithful. Faithful, faithful, faithful.
Our salvation is based upon whose faithfulness? Be careful now. It's not based upon your faithfulness. Now, I'm all in on faithfulness.
But our salvation is based upon his faithfulness. to honor the
law of God, to put away our sin. He's a faithful and true God.
And he is true. Everything about the Lord Jesus
Christ, notice the second thing, he is true. Everything about
him is true. His word is true. He spoke the
absolute truth because it's impossible for God to lie. He came to speak
the words of truth. We know the Son of God has come
and has given us an understanding that we might know Him, that
is true, and we're in Him, that is true, even in His Son. This
is the true God and this is eternal life. Our Lord speaks nothing
but the truth. He said to those Pharisees, I've
not come, and spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me,
he gave me commandment, what I should say and what I should
speak." Everything he spoke, every word he spoke was absolute,
eternal truth. So much so that he said, Heaven
and earth is going to pass away. My word, my truth will not and
cannot pass away. He's called the way, the truth,
the life. No man come to the Father but
by and through the Lord Jesus Christ. And then thirdly, His
name is called the Word of God. You see that in verse 13? He's
clothed with the vesture dipped in blood, and His name is called
the Word of God. Notice capital again, W, Word. You remember how the book of
John starts? The gospel of John in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He is eternal. Word of the Lord
God Almighty. And as the mediator and priest
and prophet and king, he speaks the Word of God because he is
the Word of God. Remember this prophecy in Deuteronomy
18, I will raise them up a prophet from among the brethren like
unto thee Moses. And I'll put my words in his
mouth and he shall speak in my name. all that I command him,
and whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he speaketh
in my name, I'll require it of him." You're accountable unto
Him who speaks the absolute Word of Truth. He not only called
the Word of God, He's also called in verse 15, the last part of
verse 15, Almighty God. Almighty God. Now we've seen
this before. Turn back to chapter 4. Revelation
chapter 4 verse 8. And I would encourage you to
sit down and read through this whole book. Just sit down, take
some time and read clear through it. Look at Revelation chapter
4 verse 8. And the four beasts, each of
them had six wings, the four living creatures. ministers of
the gospel, is symbolic of them. And they were 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. So who is
this one? He's the Lord God Almighty. And then verse 16, he's called
King of Kings. King of Kings. and Lord of Lords. He is King of Kings. We've seen
that before too, haven't we? Look back at chapter 17 verse
14 one more time. 17, 14, These shall make war
with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. For He is Lord
of Lords and King of Kings, and they that are with Him are called
chosen and faithful. Chosen by God's elective grace
and given faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's king of kings, not
by something we do. We don't make him Lord. We bow
to his lordship, his sovereignty, his sovereignty. And then thirdly,
I want to look at this. The Lord Jesus Christ is active
in his second coming. He's not a passive bystander. Look what it says in the last
part of verse 11. And in righteousness he doth
judge, and he doth make war. Now, does he have the right to
judge? The Father judgeth no man, but
hath committed all judgment unto the Son. He does judge in absolute
righteousness. We studied in Acts 17, the Lord
hath appointed a day in which He will judge this world in righteousness
by that man. The standard of judgment is not
set by the creature. We set the standard too low.
One old preacher friend of mine said, you know, I could jump
over a barn. Oh, you can't jump over a barn.
If you let me build it, I can. I might build it six inches high.
You see, we set our own standard. But in this judgment, we don't
set the standard. That standard is absolute holiness. And in and of ourselves, we cannot
meet that standard. It's only in Christ. We're accepted
in the Beloved. And He does make war against
His enemies, and He does overcome them. When the Lord said to those
children of Israel, stand still and see the salvation that is
of the Lord. When they were up against the
Red Sea, Pharaoh and his 600 chariots were ready to slaughter
every one of those people that God had delivered by the blood
of the Lamb. And Moses was told to tell the
people, stand still, don't fight, don't move. Behold, salvation
is of the Lord and the sea parted. And they went across on dry ground.
And when they got across on dry ground, Pharaoh and his army,
they started in after them. What happened? The water fell
upon them and they were drowned. And then they sang unto the Lord
on the other side, the Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his
name. Who fought the battle for them?
The Lord did. Who won the battle for them?
The Lord did. Who has won the battle for us
over sin, over death, over the devil, over the grave? Who has
won that battle? Well, look what I've done. You're
not going to do that, are you? The Lord has given us the victory. He knows who His enemies are
and will take vengeance, holy vengeance and holy wrath upon
them in due time. That's what it says here in verse
19 through verse 21. The beast, the false prophet,
those that had the mark of the beast, that is, works religion,
false religion, Babylon, those that worship the image, not good
news. Cast out of the presence of God
forever, slain with the sword of his mouth. cast out into the
lake of fire, burning with brimstone. Now, here's the fourth thing
I want us to see, verse 12. His eyes were as a flame of fire. His eyes are piercing. His eyes
are all seeing. Now we've seen this picture before
in chapter one. Turn back over there in chapter
one. His eyes are a flaming fire, a burning fire. The Lord is not only omnipotent,
He's omniscient. That means He sees all things.
You can't hide from God. He knows your thoughts, your
heart afar off. In Revelation chapter 1 verse
14, His head and His hairs were white like wool, white as snow. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
piercing, knowing, all-knowing. The Lord knows all things. He
sees the hearts, the thoughts, and intent of all men. He sees
your motive. He sees what you're about. God
looks on the heart. All things are naked and open
to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Remember when
Samuel went down to the house of Jesse to anoint a king, Jesse
had seven sons, and they all came before Samuel. And Samuel
said to that firstborn son alive, yeah, that's the king right there.
He's strong. He'll make a good king. God said,
you're looking on the outside, I'm looking on the heart. He
passed by those seven boys. And then he said to Jesse, do
you have any more sons? I've got one little runt. He's
out there in the shepherd tending the sheep. His name's David. And Samuel said, you go get him,
fetch him, bring him here. He's my anointed king. You see,
God was looking on that man's heart. All them other seven boys,
God said, I'm passed by every one of those. I've chosen sovereignly
David to be my king. His eyes were a flame of fire.
God looks on the heart. He knows our thoughts, our intent,
our motive. Well, it moves us. And then he
describes his head. On his head were many crowns. On his head were crowns of victory. Every battle that he had been
in, he won. Every enemy that he faced, he
conquered. You know, Saul of Tarsus was
an enemy, wasn't he? He went about persecuting those
who called upon the Lord Jesus Christ. And what happened to
him? He met the Lord. He met the King
of Kings and Lord of Lords. And what happened when Saul of
Tarsus met the King? He was put in the dust and confessed,
Lord, what would you have me to do? Many crowns, many victories. Is there anybody too hard? too
hardened, too wicked, that the Lord cannot save. He came to
save sinners. On his head many crowns of victories. He is King of kings and Lord
of lords. And here's the good news. We're
more than conquerors through him that loved us. Because he
wins, we win. Thanks be to God who's given
us a victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. He wins the battle
for us, and because He has won every battle, defeated our sin
that was against us, contrary to us, put it away, established
righteousness for us, and freely gives that, imputes that unto
us, we are winners in Him. And here's
the sixth thing I want to look at, verse 12. It says there that
He had a name written King of kings, Lord of lords, no man
knows but he himself. Now, the natural man receiveth
not the things of God. If we know anything about the
true and living God, he must take the Word of God, the written
Word of God, and reveal those things unto us. And that's what he does. He takes
the things of Christ and shows them unto us. He's hid these
things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto his babes,
unto his children. Now don't turn, but let me just
read this to you. We're in, and you're familiar
with this, so I know you've already got this marked in your Bible.
But in Matthew chapter 11, he said, Neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him." No
man naturally knows the Lord Jesus Christ is everything in
salvation. We must be taught that. We must
be taught that. The seventh thing I want us to
see in verse 13 is His clothing. He's clothed with a vesture dipped
in blood. You see that there. Verse 16,
He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King
of kings and Lord of lords. He's clothed with a vesture dipped
in blood. Now whenever I see blood in the
Scripture, what should we think about? the shedding of His blood. It's not the shedding of that
blood of bulls and goats that puts away our sin. It's the shedding
of His blood. He's a mighty Savior. His garments
are dipped in blood. Because without the shedding
of blood, there is no remission. We are redeemed with the precious
blood of Christ. The blood of Christ cleanses
us from all our sins. Remember that new song? Turn
back to Revelation chapter 5. Revelation chapter 5, verse 9,
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy, Chapter 5, verse
9, "...to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood." God bought the church with His
own blood. He purchased us with His own
blood out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation, and has made
us kings and priests unto our God, and we shall reign with
Him. Now, that's good news, isn't it? We cannot make too much of
the Lord Jesus Christ and the shedding of His blood. He put
away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Now, a couple more things
I'll let you go. Look at verse 14. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
captain of our salvation, and we willingly and faithfully follow
our Great Shepherd into the battle. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him, the redeemed of the Lord, upon white horses,
and they were clothed in fine linen, white and clean." We know
that's the righteousness of the saints. They follow the lamb, and that's
the point I want to make. They follow the lamb now and
forever. You remember he said, my sheep,
hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them to
them eternal life and they shall never perish. The blood-bought
church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they fight under the banner of
the gospel. They fight the good fight of
faith under his direction using gospel weapons that he has provided
for us. What is the gospel weapon that
we use to fight the good fight of faith? His word. The word
of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword.
The Apostle Paul writes this. We studied this in 2 Corinthians
4. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through
God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down every imagination,
everything that exalted itself against the knowledge of Christ,
bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, submission
to the Lordship of the Lord Jesus Christ." So we don't use carnal
weapons in this warfare that we're in. We don't use the trickery
of men, or the cunning devices of men. I've told you before, And I'll remind you again, we're
not interested in filling this building up. I could fill this building up
in one week. I could have them flowing out
the windows and I could do it in one week. Guaranteed. I'm not interested in filling
this building. I'm interested in preaching the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now I tell you why I can make
such a bold statement. Several years over here, several
years ago, over here in this lot used to be a vacant lot before
they put the drugstore over there. And when they, a local businessman
put a car, used car dealership over here on this vacant lot.
That's why that fence, what's left of it's over there. And
in the opening week of their business, They raffled off a
car. And they sold raffle tickets
for a buck. And when they had that raffle
over there, there were so many cars, this whole parking lot
was absolutely jam-packed, it was a traffic jam. You couldn't
get up and down the road. Cars over there, cars here, cars
everywhere. Why did they come? They wanted
to win a car. You see, that's why I can say,
if we're just interested in filling a building, that's no problem. Just offer a thousand bucks to
all the visitors that come. If I put an ad in the paper next
week, $1,000 to every visitor that shows up. You reckon anybody
will come? My goodness, you couldn't get
near this place. See, it's not filling a building. It's preaching
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what we're about.
Preaching Him. Preaching Him. Preaching Him. The armies who were in heaven
followed Him upon white horses clothed in this raiment. And the Lord Jesus Christ...
Let me quit with this. Verse 15. Point number 10. The Lord Jesus Christ shall rule
over all things, verse 15. Out of his mouth goes a sharp
sword, with it he shall smite the nation and shall rule them
with a rod of iron. He treadeth the winepress of
the fierceness of the wrath of God. Those who are not subdued
by the power of his effectual, irresistible, sovereign grace.
The grace of the gospel shall be crushed with the power of
His invincible justice, the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath
of the Almighty God. In chapter 6, it's called the
wrath of the Lamb. You remember that strange prayer
meeting? They prayed unto the rocks and
mountains to fall on us and to hide us from the face of Him
that sits upon the throne from the wrath of the Lamb, for the
great day of His wrath is come." Now here's the good news for
the believer. He's delivered us from the wrath to come. He
that believeth on the Son hath life. No condemnation to those
who are in Christ. Those who believeth not the Son
shall not see life, What's that word? Wrath of God abides on
them.