Revelation 1 - “It’s All About Jesus”
Sunday, June 16, 2024
In times of intense persecution, you don’t need a sentimental Jesus who simply makes you feel warm at night – a Jesus who is one part genie, one part therapist, one part life coach, and the rest warm blanket. You need to see a Jesus sovereign over all the other powers at work in the world. —JD Greear
Encouragement
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. —Revelation 1:1-3
John’s goal was not to give a sequential road map to predict the return of Christ. John’s goal was to provide a shot of encouragement in the arm of Christians who are being mercilessly persecuted, and to show that no matter how bad things are, or how bad things get, that Jesus is still on His Throne. —Robby Gallaty
Gospel
John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” —Revelation 1:4-8
- Jesus gives
- Jesus gives
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. —Revelation 1:5-6
- Jesus
- Jesus
- Jesus made us Kingdom
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Eve so. Amen. ”I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” —Revelation 1:7-8
- Jesus will
Power
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. —Revelation 1:9
- The golden lampstands represent the 7 churches who are the
- The son of man is Jesus, and the golden sash represents His Ultimate
- Snow-white hair represents His Unparalleled
- His bronzed feet represent His Sturdy
- His right hand represents His Peerless
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys to Death and Hades.
Write, therefore, the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. —Revelation 1:17-19
- Do not fear
- Do not fear
- Do not fear
What vision do you have of Jesus?