Heavenly Worship

Terry Cavanaugh

Revelation • Sermon • Submitted a year ago • Presented a year ago

Revelation 19:1–10

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Expect Worship In Heaven

Revelation 19:1 NASB95

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God;

What does worship mean?

Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive I. A Proper Conception of God Is Necessary for Worship

Man, by nature; man, by instinct; and man, by creation, needs to worship. No one is ever born an atheist; he has to be taught to be an atheist. A man can only become an atheist by committing spiritual and moral suicide with his spiritual and moral facilities. Man’s desire to worship God is as instinctive as breathing. Now we’re reading the Commandments. The First Commandment tells us that we are to worship the Lord God and have no other gods. The Second Commandment tells us how we are to worship. The First Commandment forbids false gods, and the Second Commandment forbids false worship. I want us to think about worshiping God, because you cannot learn to do anything more important than to worship God. Some churches think that assuring that people are saved is the most important thing. It is not. Worshiping God is the most important thing.

Do you know why we get saved? So we can worship God. That’s why people get saved. The bottom line is not the salvation of souls. The bottom line is the glory of God: the worship of God, knowing God, loving God, and serving God. Now in these verses we see the importance of a proper conception of God. Now the Bible says, in verse 4, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (Exodus 20:4). You cannot worship God until you have a proper conception of God. You must know God to worship God.

Expect the Marriage of the Lamb

Revelation 19:7 NASB95

“Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”

That a radical contrast exists between God’s kingdom (exemplified in the bride, the new Jerusalem) and the world’s values (exemplified in the prostitute, Babylon)

Craig Keener

John suggests we will do three things as we prepare for the marriage Feast or Supper of the LAMB.

Rejoice

Be Glad

Give God the Glory

Expect Christ Return

Revelation 19:11 NASB95

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.

When Christ first came.

Infant

Weak

Powerless

When he returns

Adult

Strong

Powerful

He will Judge

He will wage war.

Expect the doom of the Beast and the False Prophet

Revelation 19:20 NASB95

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

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