Okay now, today we're looking
at Revelation chapter 2. Revelation chapter 2. He that
hath an ear, let him hear what God, the Holy Spirit, would teach
us. Verse 12. To the angel, which
is a messenger or pastor of the church, Pergamos, God calls out
men and puts them in the ministry and calls them to know the gospel,
love the gospel, and preach the gospel. And this church at Pergamos
was blessed with a gospel preacher, a pastor. To the angel of the
church of Pergamos, write, write these things, saith he with half
a sharp sword with two edges. A sharp sword. Revelation 2 verse
12. Now today we have the Lord's
letter. given to this church located at a city by the name
of Pergamos. It is what is called, it's been
a city, this city's in the modern day, what we call modern day
Turkey, but in that day it was part of Asia Minor. Like most
of the other letters written and given to the seven churches,
it contains exhortations to believers an acknowledgement of their faithfulness,
but also warnings of needed fatherly instruction and a call to repentance. So we have there given to us
promises, promises lest we despair, right? Also warnings lest we
presume, lest we presume. He gives us these fatherly corrections
and a call to repentance. As he says in verse 16, repent. He says to these who were disobedient
to the gospel, who went the way of Balaam and the way of the
Nicolaitans, he said, repent. Repent. Repent. If you're seeking salvation by
something other than the Lord Jesus Christ alone, you need
to repent. and seek salvation in Christ,
Christ alone. Pergamos was a city filled with
sinners, just like this city, just like the city where you
live. Every sinner, every city is full of sinners, just like
Pergamos was. Pergamos was filled with these
people who were idolaters. Not only did they acknowledge
Caesar as God, They were also steeped in the worship of many
pagan gods of the Greeks. Zeus and others. They were polytheistic. They had many, many, many gods. You remember when Paul went to
Athens and he said, boy, you folks are most religious. I found
an altar with this inscription, unto the unknown gods. Just in
case you missed one, you had an altar to the one that you
may have missed. So they had many, many idols. Idolatry, we know, is satanic. Idolatry is satanic. It's inspired
and motivated by him and his ministers of darkness and death.
That's why he says there, I know where Satan dwells in verse 13. I know where Satan's seat is,
where his dominion is. I know where he dwells. I know
where he dwells. Again, he mentions that again
over in verse 9 in the church there to the Ephesians, or yeah,
no, Church of Smyrna. He said, verse 9, I know thy
works in tribulation and poverty, but thou art rich. I know the
blasphemy of them which say they are Jews that are not, but are
the synagogue of Satan. How many who refuse to worship
idols, those who were taught the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ and His saving mercy, Those who refused to worship
idols, those who refused to submit to Caesar and acknowledge him
as God, those who stood for the gospel of true and living God,
most of them, or a lot of them, were killed, as it says over
here in verse 13. Even in those days were an Antipas
was my faithful martyr who was slain among you." Those who were
called out of darkness into God's marvelous light, they stood firm
for the gospel, would not compromise, would not back down. And this
man, we don't know much about him, but I know this, God knows
who he is. The foundation of God standeth
sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His. In
Acts 7, remember Stephen was God's faithful martyr as well.
He preached the gospel, would not compromise, and those self-righteous
Jews picked up stones and stoned him to death. The Apostle Paul
was put in a Roman prison for none other reason than preaching
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it cost him his life. Be thou faithful unto death,
and God will bless. God will bless. So there were
many like Polycarp I mentioned last week. There in the church
of Smyrna was the pastor of that church who gave his life for
the gospel. But here's the point I'm making.
The Lord had a people among these idolaters that must be called
out of the darkness into God's marvelous light. Remember when
Paul went to Corinth, and that Corinth had the same problem
that this city had, Pergamos, Smyrna, and Ephesus, and Pythia
and the rest of them. They were idolaters by nature,
dead in sin, dead in trespasses and sin. Paul went there to Corinth
and preached the gospel there, and he met with some opposition,
and he was getting ready to leave. I said, I'm going to leave town. God said to him, don't leave
because I have much people in this city. And the Apostle Paul
stayed there 18 months. And we know the story how God
called many of them out of darkness and idolatry, to saving faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, God must command the
light to shine in our darkened, dead hearts. By nature, we're
all idolaters. You know who we worship by nature?
Self. We worship self. We may not be
dancing around the totem pole, but by nature we're ignorant,
blind, dead, therefore we love darkness instead of light. God
must command the light of the gospel to shine in our hearts.
God must give us faith in the Lord Jesus Christ or we'll go
right on in this life worshiping self, loving darkness and hating
the light. While Paul was in Ephesus for
three years, he traveled to these nearby cities and preached the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to them. Now, don't turn. Let
me just read this to you. It's pretty familiar because
we studied through the book of Acts. But when Paul preached
his first message, this was his message. He said, "...Be it known
unto you, therefore, men and brethren..." This is Acts 13.38.
that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin.
We have redemption through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things which
you could not be justified by the law of Moses. So the Apostle
Paul went to this city, Pergamos, Smyrna, Ephesus, Corinth, all
these different places and preached the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And God was pleased to call a
people out of darkness into this marvelous light of the gospel.
Paul said, I'm determined not to know anything among you. but
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. So we can be assured that those
people there in Pergamos, they heard the gospel, God the Holy
Spirit convicted their heart, God the Holy Spirit gave them
faith, and they looked to the Lord Jesus Christ for all of
salvation. God hasn't changed His method.
He's still using the same method it means today. to call his people
to himself with the word of truth." Now, look at verse 12, "...to
the angel of the church of Pergamos write these things, saying, which have a sharp sword with
two edges. Now he's talking about the Lord
Jesus Christ is describing himself. And he does this, he does this
in every letter when he writes to these churches. Notice in
chapter 2, Revelation chapter 2 verse 1, when he writes to
Ephesus, these things saith he that holdeth the seven stars
in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden
candlesticks, again down in verse 8, And these things saith the
first and the last, which was dead and alive. And then we're
going to see in verse 18, when he writes to the church of Thyatira,
these things saith the Son of God. So the Lord describes Himself
as the true and living God, who has all power in heaven and in
earth, who has a sharp sword in His hand. The Lord stands
ready to defend His church and to fight against the enemies
of the gospel, and He does so with a sharp sword of truth,
the word of truth, which is the word of God. Hold your place
there and find Revelation 19. Revelation 19, verse 11. Revelation
19, 11, And I saw heaven open, And behold, a white horse, and
he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness
he did judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns. And he had a name written that
no man knew but he himself, and he was clothed with a vesture,
verse 13, dipped in blood, And his name is called the Word of
God. Read on. Revelation 19, 14. And
the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
clothed in white linen, clean and white, fine linen, clean
and white. And out of his mouth hears the
same Lord, goeth a sharp sword, that with it should smite the
nation. He shall rule them with a rod
of iron. He treads the winepress with
the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God. He hath on his
vesture a name written. He hath on his vesture an honest
eye a name written, King of kings, Lord of lords. Where the word of the king is,
there's power. He speaks with absolute power. It reminded me of a story when
we studied through the book of Joshua, when Israel spent those
40 years in the wilderness, and they were getting ready to cross
over Jordan, and they did. And right in the way of their
course to the land of Canaan stood Jericho, that fortified
city. They had to take Jericho before
they could enter into the land of Canaan. met someone on the eve of that
battle. He met a man with a sword drawn,
ready to do battle. And you know who that man was?
The God-man mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. And Joshua went
forth and said to the man, Are you for us or against us? And
he said, I'm the prince of the Lord of hosts. I'm here to fight
your battles. Joshua bowed down in worship.
Well, we know the story of what happened to Jericho. Jericho
fell by the word of the Lord, and they entered into the promised
land. In Ephesians chapter 6, where
it tells us to take upon us the whole armor of God, He said this,
take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the Word of God. What a treasure we have right
here in our hand. God gives us His written Word,
inspired, God-given, that tells us that the living Word, the
Lord Jesus Christ. We can be sure that His Word
will bless and feed His people with the gospel sword of gospel
truth. and defeat our enemies. He'll feed us. and defeat our
enemies. He will destroy His enemies with
the same word of truth that blesses us. It's a saver of life and
the like. He operates upon us, our heart,
with the word of truth and gives us faith in Christ. That same
gospel truth that's quick and powerful, sharp as any two-edged
sword, will also defeat the enemies of God. He will send forth His
Word in power, and in truth, wherever the Lord sends His Word,
it shall prosper. It won't return unto Him void.
The words of life. I like what Peter said to the
Lord when our Lord declared the gospel of His sovereign saving
mercy, and many walked away from Him. And the Lord said, will
you also go away? And Peter replied, to whom shall
we go? Thou hast the Word of eternal
life. Thou art the Word of eternal life. We believe and we are sure
Thou art the Son of the living God. How do we know that? His
Word declares that He is the Son of God, that He is everything
in salvation. Now look at verse 13. Thank God
for our Savior who has a sharp sword, who can defend us and
defeat our enemies. Now look at verse 13. I know
thy works. He says this to every one of
these churches. He's talking here about, not talking here
about works for justification. He's talking here about works
of faith, labors of love. I know where you dwell. God knows
His people. He knows where you dwell. He
knows where you live. He knows every heartache. You
remember we read in Hebrews chapter 4 that we have such a great high
priest who's touched with a feeling of our infirmities, for he was
tempted and tested in all points like as we are, yet without sin."
He knows our frame. He knows everything about us.
He knows our heart, our frailty, our weakness. I know you and
I know where you live. That's comforting to me. He said, I even know where Satan's
seat is. But he says this, you hold fast
my name and hast not denied my faith. Now this is a good description
of believers. They hold fast, they stand fast
to his name. We cannot deny the Lord Jesus
Christ, can we? A believer can't deny his Lord.
We cannot deny the Lord Jesus Christ. These two truths cannot
be separated, his name and faith. These truths cannot be separated
from each other. Those who love the gospel proclaim
his name, which is his character, his person, who he really is. And what he has done for us,
we cannot deny his name, we cannot deny his truth. The faith of
the gospel, the faith of God's elect loves the truth, will publicly
own and declare the truth of the gospel. That's what the faith
of God's elect does. We hold fast his name and we
declare his gospel. We studied Wednesday night last
week Isaiah 12, and we read these words, In that day shall you
say, Praise the Lord, call upon His name, God giving Him a name
which is above every name, nor the name under heaven, given
among men whereby we must be saved. Praise you the Lord, call
upon His name, declare His doing among the people, make mention
that His name is exalted. Sing unto the Lord, for He hath
done excellent things. His name, No other name under
heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. For unto us
a child is born, a son is given, and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace, and of the end of his kingdom there shall
be no end. The government rests upon his
shoulders. The church of the Lord Jesus
Christ is most eager and willing to proclaim His name and hold
fast to His name. His name is His person, who He
is. He's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the Lord, not by something
we do. We acknowledge and bow to His
Lordship. We submit to His Lordship. Peter
declared, God had made that same Jesus whom you crucified, both
Lord and Christ. He is the Lord who reigns. He
is the Lord. He is Jesus. Call His name Jesus. He shall save His people from
their sin. He is the Savior of His people.
And He's the Christ of God. He's the Christ of God. Our Lord
asked Peter, Peter, whom do you say that I am? I know who these
other men say that I am. Peter, whom do you say that I
am? He said, Thou art the Christ.
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. You remember
what the Lord said? Blessed are you, Simon Peter,
because God has revealed these things unto you. So you have
declared my name Notice verse 13, you hold fast my name, and
declare my name, and hast not denied my faith. My faith there is the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. You have not denied the gospel.
It is the gospel of God concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. It is
a blessed gospel of the glory of God. The declaration is a
proclamation, the gospel is a Proclamation, a declaration of God's free and
sovereign grace toward hell-deserving sinners. My gospel, the gospel
of God concerning Christ. It includes this and more, but
at least these four things. The gospel declares His sovereign
electing love. We are bound to give thanks to
God for you, brethren, because God has chosen you to undo salvation. The gospel includes this, His
sovereign and effectual atonement for the sin of His chosen people,
a particular redemption, a definite atonement for the Lord Jesus
Christ. He laid down His life for His
people. He bought the church with His
own blood. We don't preach universalism. We preach a definite, particular
atonement, an effectual atonement for his elect. We preach the
sovereign, effectual, irresistible call of God. The call of God. No man can come to me except
the Father which sent me draw him. And we preach his sovereign
power to save us, able to save to the uttermost, he's able to
keep us from falling, and to present us faultless. before
the presence of God's glory. That's what we declare when we
hold fast this name of the Lord Jesus Christ and declare the
faith of Christ or the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
listen to me. Those who deny these essential
things of faith, the faith of the gospel, have also denied
the name of Christ. They've departed from the faith
of God's elect. They've become allies of Satan,
for there's just one gospel. Anything less than the gospel
of the sovereign, saving grace of God is a perversion of the
gospel. I know there's a lot of people
who use the name Jesus. But they're talking about another
Jesus, another Gospel, and another Savior. They're not talking about
the Christ of God. Because they talk about a Jesus
who's trying to do things and can't. And wants to, but you
won't let Him. That's another one. That's not
the Christ of God. That's not the Christ of God.
There's just one Gospel, and anything left in the Gospel of
the grace of God is a perversion. And Paul says this, "...though
we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have received, let it be a curse." That's a
strong word. He's saying, let it be damned.
Those who preach a gospel that depends upon a sinner's will
or decision for success are those sitting in Satan's seat where
he loves to dwell, and they're doing his bidding. The Apostle
Paul talks about those who are apostles of light. He said that
no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light. Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according
to their deeds. Whose righteousness are they
preaching? They're not preaching Christ, our righteousness. They're
preaching righteousness based upon what you do before God,
rather than Christ, our righteousness. So, our Lord said, I know where
he dwells. I know what he's trying to do.
He's trying to take you and point you to something other than Christ
alone. Now look at verse 14. Revelation
2, verse 14. So those were there in that church
who held fast, who did not deny the gospel. Some even gave their
life for the gospel. But he said, I have a few things
against thee. not the whole church, but against
some in that church, whom the Lord knew, because thou hast
them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak, who
was the king of Moab, to cast the stumbling block before the
children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to
commit fornication. Verse 15, "...so hast thou also
them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which saying,
I hate." I hate that. The Lord has a word of correction
here. Flip one page, look at chapter
3, verse 19. Now why does the Lord do this?
Why does the Lord send forth a correcting word? A word of
rebuke, a chastisement. Revelation 3 verse 19, As many
as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore and repent. God, whom the Lord loveth, he
chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Now most of the church of Pergamos
were faithful to the gospel. But some departed from the faith.
Some denied the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many called themselves
believers and were members of that local assembly, but they
were never one with the Lord Jesus Christ. They are hares
among the wheat, goats among the sheep. evidenced by two things
here. He said they hold the doctrine
of Balaam. They hold the doctrine of Balaam.
Now, hold your place there and just turn one page over here
to the book of Jude. Peter and Jude, the apostles,
also mentioned this man by the name of Balaam. Look at verse
11. Jude chapter 1, just one chapter,
verse 11. For they've gone the way of Cain.
What was the way of Cain? You remember Cain and Abel? Abel
brought the blood sacrifice. What did Cain bring? The work
of his hand. They've gone the way of works,
the way of Cain. And ran greedily after the heir
of Balaam for reward and perished with the gang saying of Korah.
Korah stood against Moses and said to Moses, you take too much
authority yourself. So, what is this doctrine of
Balaam? Well, let me see if I can put
it to you this way. And you can go back and read
Numbers 23, 22, 23, 24. It tells us about Balaam and
this man by the name of Balak. We know that Balak was the king
of Moab. Remember, Israel spent 40 years
wandering in the wilderness. And they had many enemies. And
some of those enemies hated them so much, they wanted to put an
end to them. Some of those people were led
by this man by the name of Balak, who was the king of the Moabites. And he contacted Balaam, who
said, Balaam said he was a prophet in Israel, and Balak offered
Balaam to curse the people of Israel. And he wouldn't do it,
but he took the money. And he wanted to make a compromise.
He wanted a compromise. So I'm summing this up. What
is the doctrine of Balaam? Compromise. Compromise to get
along. For the sake of getting along,
Balaam said to the children of Israel it was okay to participate
in idolatry. Let's not offend the children
of Moab or Balak the king. Let's just join up with those
enemies. It'll be okay. If you go back
and read Numbers 25, it didn't turn out okay. God killed 24,000
of them. There are many, and here's the
point I want to make for us. What does all that have to do
with us? Let us not compromise. Let us not compromise in our
day. Let us not remove the offense of the cross in the name of what's
called Christian harmony. Let's just try to get along with
everybody. Let's just try to get along with those who deny
the gospel of the grace of God. I can't do that. No believer
can do that. They would deny the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ and the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those
who would compromise to try to what they say and what they call,
we want to grow our church. I get mail all the time. How to grow the ministry. How to grow your numbers. Basically,
it boiled down to how to make more money. That was Balaam's
problem. But we can't compromise the gospel
of the grace of God. We can't say that salvation is
by the free and sovereign grace of God alone and then say that
man has a free will. Those two things are contrary.
You know where free will religion started? Do you know who the
daddy of free will religion is? Satan himself. Read Isaiah 14. He said, I will ascend. I will
be like God. I'll do this. I'll do that. God
said, no you won't. You'll be brought down to the
sides of the pit. And you read over in the Revelation,
I've read ahead. I know what happened to Satan
and all of his allies. They end up in the lake of fire.
We cannot compromise to get along. Two cannot walk together except
they be agreed. To compromise the truth of the
gospel in the least way is to promote self-righteousness and
idolatry and religious pride. Truth and error cannot be in
harmony. No lie is the truth. God does not use the lies of
false religion to teach men the truth. Our Lord said this, I've
not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because
you know it. No truth, no lie is the truth. Who is a liar but he that denies
that Jesus is the Christ? He's an antichrist that denies
the Father and the Son. Lies can find common ground. But truth cannot promote lies. The truth of God and the lives
of men cannot find agreement. It's either all of grace or all
of works. It can't be both. No lie is truth. Now, the other thing that he
said, you have not only those there that hold the doctrine
of compromise, like Balaam did, trying to satisfy Balak, And
it caused the children of Israel to stumble, to sacrifice things
to idols, and to commit fornication. Thou hast also them that hold
the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. while others
promoted this idea of hypocrisy and self-righteousness. Our Lord
said that those Pharisees, He had such strong rebukes for them,
those people who went about to establish the righteousness of
their own, He said, those things are an abomination unto me. That's
this doctrine of Nicolaitans, which thing God says I hate.
I hate that way of hypocrisy, religious pride, and self-righteousness. Some people said they believed
but went about to establish their righteousness by their deeds.
That is, they did not trust Christ alone for salvation, grace alone
for salvation. They wanted to add something
of their own to the gospel. They wanted to bring their part,
do their thing to make salvation complete. God paid a part, we
pay a part, we put the two parts together, and then we have a
whole. That's the doctrine of Satan. That's the lies of Satan. Salvation is by Christ alone. You say, well, is this any big
deal? Yeah. God says He hates it. Turn to
3 John. Just a couple pages over. 3 John. As your pastor, I'm going to
warn you of these things. Don't go the way of Balaam. Don't go the way of Nicolaitans. 3 John. I want 2 John. Sorry about that. 2 John verse
7. You got it? Right before the
book of Jude. 2 John verse 7. For many deceivers
are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh. This is the deceiver and antichrist. Look to yourselves that we lose
not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive
a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth
not in the doctrine of Christ, Have not God. He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. Well, I would say
that it's pretty important to abide in the doctrine of Christ,
wouldn't you? Salvation all in the Lord Jesus
Christ and Him alone. If there come any unto you and
bring not this doctrine, don't receive him into your house,
neither bid him Godspeed. For he that bids him Godspeed
is a partaker of his evil deeds. So let's not go the way of compromise,
Balaam. Let's not go the way of the Nicolaitans,
self-righteousness, religious pride. Let's stick with the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now what does the Lord say about
those things and to those people? Verse 16. Verse 16. Repent or else. Is there an option here? No. There's no option. It's either
repent, and repentance is a constant thing in our lives as believers. We have repented, we are repenting,
and we will. He says, repent of this wickedness. Repent of this thing you have
done. Repent or else I come quickly unto thee, and will fight against
them with the sword of my mouth. How does God correct our error?
If we have error, and we do, We have sin, and yes we do. How
does He correct us? With His Word. With His Gospel. He drives us back to the Lord
Jesus Christ. Verse 17, He that hath an ear,
let him hear. Would you hear what God would
say? Would you put everything else
aside and listen to what God says? He that hath an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit says to the churches, to God's people. To him that overcometh, to him
that overcometh, how do we overcome? Only by the blood of Christ.
He's given us the victory. To him that overcometh will I
give to eat of that hidden manna. That hidden man is Christ. He's
hid these things with wise and prudent and revealed Himself
unto His babes. He is the bread of life. Christ
is hidden to the natural man. We don't see Him as altogether
lovely. He must give us eyes and ears. He must give us eyes
of faith to see Him and ears to hear a word from Him. I will give to eat. Salvation
is a gift. This hidden man is the bread
of life. The bread of life. And I'll give him a white stone,
and in that stone I'll give a new name, a new name which no man
knoweth, saving he that receiveth this name. Here's the words of
comfort to God's people, those who overcome by the power of
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, by God-given faith, He gives
us the bread of life, and He gives us this white stone. Now,
if you look that up, back in Roman days under the Roman government,
when you had a trial, And the verdict came down, however that
happened. The verdict came down, it was
either a black stone or a white stone. If they cast a black stone
to you, guilty. If they cast a white stone at
you, innocent. Innocent, not guilty. The Lord
Jesus Christ has given us the white stone. There is therefore
now no condemnation to those who are in the Lord Jesus Christ.
God says of His people, not guilty. God says of His people, I paid
their debt. I did the time. They did the
crime, and that crime became mine, and I did the time. He
put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and He makes us new
creatures. He said, I'll give you a new
name. A new name written. Do you know what our name is?
A new name written. A new name written. Look at chapter
3 verse 12. To him that overcometh will I
make a pillar in the temple of my God. Revelation 3 verse 12. And I'll write upon him the name
of my God. In the name of the city of my
God, which is New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven
from God, and I'll write upon Him my new name. My new name. What is that new
name? It's the Lord Jesus Christ. That
is our name. Don't turn. Let me read this
to you. Revelation 14, verse 1. And lo, a lamb stood on Mount
Zion with Him 144,000, having the Father's name written in
their forehead." That's that new name, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is called
the Lord our righteousness. He shall be called the Lord our
righteousness. And then it says in Jeremiah
33, verse 16, In those days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall
dwell safely. And this is the name whereby
she shall be called the Lord our righteousness. That's our
new name. The Lord our righteousness. You see, when a woman marries
a man, she takes his name. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
husband. Do you know what we're called
in Scripture? We're called His bride. Let's
turn and read that. I'll let you go with this. Turn
to Revelation 19. Verse 7. Hallelujah to the Lord
God Omnipotent reigneth. Verse 6. Revelation 19 verse
7. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to
him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come. His wife hath
made herself ready, and to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen
is the righteousness of the saints. And he said to me, Right, blessed
are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. We've been married to the Lord
Jesus Christ. We have a new name. It is the
Lord Our Righteousness. The Lamb is the Lord. He's our husband. He's the Lion
of the tribe of Judah. But He is the Lamb of God that
put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself.