WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:12.880 practical ways. Hey, everybody, Happy Friday. 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.920 Oh man, tg im man. And it's everybody's favorite day. 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.120 It is. It's an exciting day for the Bible Guys. 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.160 I'm Chris, this is Jeff, and we're glad you tuned in. 7 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.760 We are actually wrapping up. Today is our last day, Jeff. Yes, 8 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.839 and our dangerous prayers, dangerous prayers and and this week 9 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:34.320 we're talking about prayers of perseverance and uh. And actually 10 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:37.560 today we're talking about the prayer that ends the Bible. 11 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:40.039 Yeah, I guess what that title means is it's the 12 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.000 end of the it's the last prayer in the bus. 13 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:45.600 It's the last prayer in the Bible. And uh, there's 14 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.880 a certain amount of the attitude is about finishing life 15 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:53.079 with hope and urgency and all those things. It's really cool. Yeah, 16 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.159 it's good. Yeah, we're gonna like it. But before we 17 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.439 do that, a very urgent thing we have to deal 18 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:02.280 with is everybody's favorite psyche segment on The Bible Guy's podcast. 19 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.200 We didn't do it last week, is what I know. 20 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.879 And so it's all pent up now, right. What made 21 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:09.480 Chris mad this week? 22 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.959 Yeah? So, actually it's ironic the way that this came about. 23 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.120 My thought it actually happened, something positive happened which I 24 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.000 was so grateful for, which made me mad for the opposite. 25 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.560 So so what made me mad? Actually, the mad thing 26 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.079 didn't happen this week. It's a good thing that I appreciated, 27 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.159 which made me mad for all the bad things. That 28 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:32.519 makes sense, right, Yes, so here's here's the good thing. 29 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.000 The good thing that happened was a plumber literally came 30 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.200 to my house like today, literally right now, as we're right, yes, yes, 31 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.680 and it was a little thing. So, hey, the sinks 32 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:47.560 upstairs are not doing uh you know, they're not acting well, 33 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.359 they're you know, they're just they're leaking everywhere. Blah blah blah. 34 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.840 Well a plumber. Aren't you grateful for people like your dad? Right? 35 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:57.519 He was an honest person, right, pleasing dishwashers? What was it? 36 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.599 No, No, he was a refrigeration guy. Refrigeration guy, so he 37 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:02.239 did is almost all commercial work. 38 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:04.200 So aren't you grateful for the people who would just 39 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.480 tell you, oh, you only need a five dollars apart? 40 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:06.959 Oh? 41 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:11.000 Sure, as opposed to the people who try to take 42 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.280 advantage of you. And they take advantage and they try 43 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.000 to leverage your lack of knowledge in that area. Right, 44 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.159 so the good thing happened. This plumber was a good guy. 45 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.479 Oh, I'm sorry, your flex capacitor is not working. That's right, 46 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:23.639 it's not flexing. 47 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:27.360 And so it's like and so here's what made me mad. 48 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:29.919 I thought to myself, Oh, thank goodness for this plumber guy. Right, like, 49 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.599 he's like he came over and he fixed something for 50 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.840 relatively cheap. And then I started to immediately get mad. 51 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.319 For for instance, two weeks ago, or maybe it was 52 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:44.439 more than that, my daughter sent me an estimate for 53 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.879 her her husband's car branded my son in law, and 54 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:51.080 she said, hey, can you show this to your mechanic 55 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.759 and tell me if this is a good quote, right 56 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.080 and so and so she sent me the whole thing boo, 57 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:59.840 and it's like thirty five hundred dollars something crazy. And 58 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:01.840 I want to promote, by the way, if it's okay, 59 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.400 I want to promote my mechanic because he is wonderful. 60 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.199 If you're looking for a good mechanic and you live 61 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.919 in the area in Macrome County, I'm telling you, I'm 62 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.879 not kidding. He has so many people go in and 63 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:15.560 they're like, my mechanic told me it was going to 64 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.759 be three thousand dollars, and my mechanic goes, it's four 65 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.280 hundred dollars. This is all you need, right, He's just 66 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:22.479 an honest guy. 67 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.240 So those guys are awesome. 68 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.439 Those guys are awesome. So it's Rick's tyron wheel on 69 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:27.879 Vandyke Avenue. 70 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:28.599 I know that's it. 71 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:32.319 Yeah. So anyway, so Rick, I send him this big invoice. 72 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.439 It's like thirty five hundred bucks, and I say, my 73 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:36.520 son in law daughter wants to know, is this a 74 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.159 good deal? And he looks at it and he says, 75 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.960 this would be about eighteen hundred dollars in my shop, 76 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.120 he said, Because he goes, first of all, they're recommending 77 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.759 something that doesn't even make sense. If they're recommending this, 78 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:51.759 they should never recommend this, he said. So he goes, 79 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.360 so you already know it's a scam. And on top 80 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.360 of that, they're charging too much because of this, And 81 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.599 he said, so this should be an eighteen hundred dollars bill, 82 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.280 not thirty five hundred dollars. And so you know, he 83 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.879 sends it back, and my daughter goes, that is so 84 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.039 disappointing because I like this guy. I'm like, yeah, you 85 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:09.919 like him because he's so happy to rip you off. 86 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:11.400 Yeah, yeah, right, So. 87 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.840 That's what makes Chris madd What makes Chris mad is 88 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.800 on behalf of the world. 89 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:18.079 I just gammers. 90 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.800 I don't appreciate the fact that people are choosing to 91 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.160 make money the wrong way. If you just be a 92 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:27.720 good guy, then you have people like the Bible guy 93 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.560 promote your right. And by the way, Rick's business, he's 94 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.279 really busy all the time. You know why he's busy 95 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:39.000 because he's a good guy. Right, make money that way, guys, Yes, 96 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:41.920 you are your business owner, try making money that way. 97 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.480 Don't don't try to make money the other way because 98 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:45.240 that makes me mad. 99 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.120 Good, Well, thank you, Chris. 100 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:47.959 Don't you agree? 101 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.720 I do agree? Yeah, I agree. That's a good one, 102 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.319 right there. So sometimes the things that make you mad, 103 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.319 I'm like, yeah, that's kind of a chrisism. But this 104 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:00.000 is for everybody. Well, yeah, this is just be honest, 105 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.839 make an honest living. If you're making an honest living, 106 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.120 if you're doing the right thing, you're treating everybody right, 107 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:06.480 you'll have far more work than you. 108 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.879 Need what is the what is the percentage of all 109 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.279 of my what made Chris mads where you think it's 110 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:16.639 a criticism versus a universal like, I agree. 111 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:25.000 I don't know. Ninety ten I'm joking. No, No, it's 112 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:27.800 the other way. Ninety percent for us, ten percent for you. 113 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.079 That's what I'm saying. All right, Yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, 114 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.319 thank you, Chris. Is that is that true? I think so? 115 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.720 Okay, I think it is, because if it's true, then 116 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:37.120 thank you, because I do feel like I only get 117 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.279 mad on behalf of everybody else. Yeah, not always, but 118 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:41.319 most of the time. 119 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:47.000 Can I when we translated because we're going to read 120 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:51.680 the last few words of the Bible. Yeah, and he's 121 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:56.839 describing heaven. Oh yeah, and then he's describing Wait, how 122 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:57.560 we lock it down? 123 00:05:57.600 --> 00:05:59.079 Wait we didn't transition. 124 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.600 I know, I'm just transitioning. I'm sorry, because there's nothing 125 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:03.480 to be mad about heaven. 126 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:10.879 No, but hey, uh, it's one thing to misrepresent and 127 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:11.759 be inaccurate. 128 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.639 Yeah, sometimes people misunderstand heaven. 129 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.639 Yeah yeah, yeah, well you know you know who didn't 130 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.040 misrepresent Jesus? 131 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.399 He didn't oh John John, John didn't represent He wrote 132 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:22.199 it down as he saw it. 133 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:22.839 That's right. 134 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.560 That's right, John saw Jerusalem coming down. 135 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:31.560 John the revlad he saw Jerusalem coming talk about Joel. 136 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.519 There you go, So John the Revelad, I'm only supposed 137 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.800 to read from verse twelve on where Jesus says, look, 138 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:42.399 I'm coming Si fine, Okay, heard a great voice saying, 139 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:43.079 come up on. 140 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:47.079 There it is egg same all right, come on. 141 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.839 So I was supposed to read verse twelve in chapter 142 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.439 twenty two. But would you mind if I went back 143 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:55.680 and just read a few verses out of chapter twenty 144 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.160 one and just describe all of heaven? 145 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:58.120 I will allow it. 146 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.879 Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. Where is the last prayer? 147 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:01.120 Is? 148 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:03.800 Come quickly, Lord Jesus. That's last prayer. 149 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:04.160 Yeah. 150 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:06.600 We're just looking forward to Jesus coming back. And I 151 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.959 think a lot of people are afraid of Jesus coming back. 152 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:10.839 It's because they don't know what's gonna happen. 153 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:12.560 Well, he does have eyes like fire, yeah. 154 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:14.040 Feet like brass. 155 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:14.439 Yeah. 156 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.079 Okay. So here's what John says in verse and I'm 157 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.519 sorry that I have to add all this des But 158 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:24.920 in chapter twenty two, verse ten says, so he took 159 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.759 me up in the spirit to a great high mountain, 160 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.399 and he showed me the Holy City Jerusalem, descending out 161 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.920 of Heaven from God. It's shone with the glory of 162 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.800 God and sparkle like a precious stone, like jasper, as 163 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.720 clear as crystal. The city wall was broad and high, 164 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.680 with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels, and the names 165 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:43.639 of the twelve tribes of israelre written on the gates. 166 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.560 There were three gates on each side east, north, west, south, 167 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.639 and the wall. The city had twelve foundation stones, and 168 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:52.800 on them were written the names of the twelve apostles 169 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.240 of the Lamb. The angel who talked to me held 170 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.759 in his hand a gold measuring stick to measure the city, 171 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.000 its gates, and its wall. When he measured it, he 172 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.959 found it as a square as wide as it was long. 173 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.040 In fact, it's length and width and heights were each 174 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.959 fourteen hundred miles, so fourteen hundred miles cubed as this 175 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.240 city coming down from Heaven into this new Earth that 176 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:17.759 God created, basically that symbolic of the idea of the 177 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.920 spiritual and the physical realm combining again right like it 178 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.639 was in the in the in the Garden of. 179 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.600 Eden, which by the way, this is chapter twenty one. 180 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:29.759 Yeah, that's what I said. Yeah, yeah, and then we'll 181 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:30.600 finish up chapter. 182 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.799 Twenty Yeah, but you said twenty two refore you. 183 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:36.039 Read Oh I'm sorry chapter twenty one, Verse ten. Then 184 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:37.960 he measured the walls and found them two hundred and 185 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.799 sixteen feet thick according to the human standard used by 186 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:41.320 the angels. 187 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:41.679 Gulp. 188 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.720 Yeah, it's a big, big place, Yeah, big place. The 189 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:48.399 wall was made of jasper, and the city as pure gold, 190 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.120 as clear as glass. The wall. The city was built 191 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:53.759 on foundation stones inlaid with twelve precious stones. The first 192 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:57.600 was jasper, second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 193 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.960 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelion, the crystal lite, the 194 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.360 eighth burl, the ninth topaz, the tenth crystal praise, the 195 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:09.120 eleventh Jason, and the twelfth amethyst. So just a sparkling city, right. 196 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.759 The twelve gates were made of pearls, each gate from 197 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.440 a single pearl, and the main street was pure gold, 198 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.639 as clear as glass. I saw no temple in the city, 199 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.879 for the Lord God Almighty in the lamb are its temple. 200 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.320 And the city has no need of sun or moon, 201 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.639 for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the 202 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.600 Lamb is its light. The nations will walk in its light, 203 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.440 and the kings of the world will enter the city 204 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.240 in all their glory. So now you've got kings and nations. 205 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.559 It's human society as it was supposed to be. That's 206 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.679 what it's in its perfection. With God as the ruler, 207 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:41.679 Its gates will never be closed at the end of 208 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.039 the day because there is no night there, and all 209 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:46.519 the nations will bring their glory and honor into the city. 210 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.279 Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who 211 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.960 practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty, but only those whose names 212 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.440 are written in the Lamb's Book of life. That's why 213 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:57.440 you need Jesu said, you must be born again. 214 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:02.120 Yeah, it's an unbelievable it's one of the coolest. Yeah, 215 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:03.759 I mean, you could break that down. I mean, there's 216 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.320 so many podcasts and TV shows and studies that have 217 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:08.679 just tried to break this thing down. 218 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.159 Holy but this outrageously beautiful city where God has re 219 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.759 established the spiritual realm and the physical realm together combined, 220 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:17.960 so you're living in both all the time. With God 221 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:21.360 is the King, no need for night, because God is 222 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.080 the light. There's no need for a temple because he's 223 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.759 the center of our worship. There's only always peace and 224 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.840 perfect harmony among humanity. Then it says, then the Angel 225 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.039 is going into chapter twenty two. Then the Angel showed 226 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.480 me a river with the water of life, crystal, it clears, crystal, 227 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.840 flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 228 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.799 It flowed down the center of the main street. So 229 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.720 there's water fountains. Can you imagine how beautiful this is 230 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:46.840 going to be. On each side of the river grew 231 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.000 a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with 232 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.399 a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for 233 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.200 medicine to heal the nations. No longer will there be 234 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.639 a curse upon anything, for the throne of God and 235 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:58.720 of the Lamb will be there, and his servants will 236 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.879 worship him, and they will see his face, and his 237 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:02.879 name will be written on their foreheads. And there will 238 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:05.200 be no knight, there no need for lamps or sun, 239 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:06.840 for the Lord will shine on them and they will 240 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.320 reign forever and ever. Then the Angel said to me, 241 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.919 everything you've heard and seen is trustworthy and true. The 242 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.360 Lord God, who inspires his prophets, has sent his angel 243 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.039 to tell his servants what will happen soon. Then Jesus says, look, 244 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.720 I am coming soon. Blessed are those who obey the 245 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.759 words of prophecy written in this book. Then John said, 246 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:25.639 I John am the one who heard and saw all 247 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.879 these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell 248 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:29.600 down to worship at the feet of the angels showed 249 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.919 them to me. But he said, no, don't worship me. 250 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:33.639 I am a certain of God, just like you and 251 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.399 your brothers, the prophets, as well as all who obey 252 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.159 what is written in this book. Worship only God. Then 253 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.519 he instructed me, do not seal up the prophetic words 254 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.200 in this book, for the time is near. Let the 255 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.519 one who is doing harm continue to do harm. Let 256 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:49.120 the one who is vile continue to be vile. Let 257 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.960 the one who is righteous continue to live righteously, and 258 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.200 let the one who is holy continue to be holy. 259 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:55.759 He's saying, hey, go ahead. The people are going to 260 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.399 sort themselves out right, the good versus the evil. So 261 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:00.960 Jesus said, look, I'm coming soon, bringing my reward with 262 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.960 me to repay all people according to their deeds. I 263 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.039 am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, 264 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.480 the beginning, and the end. That's how he started this book. 265 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:13.159 By the way, blessed are those who wash their robes. 266 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.159 He's talking about in the Blood of the Lamb that 267 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.879 happened in the previous chapter. Outside, they will be permitted 268 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.639 to enter through the gates of the city and eat 269 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.960 the fruit from the tree of life. Outside the city 270 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.440 are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, 271 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.960 the idle worshipers, and all who love to live a lie. 272 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:31.960 Jesus said, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give 273 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.159 you this message for the churches. I am both the 274 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.840 source of David and the heir to his throne. I 275 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:41.000 am the bright morning Star, the Spirit and the bride. Say. Come, 276 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.440 Let anyone who hears this say, come, Let anyone who 277 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.039 is thirsty, come, Let anyone who desires drink, to drink 278 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:50.120 freely from the water of life. And I solemnly declare 279 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.320 to everyone who hears the words of prophecy written in 280 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.519 this book, if anyone adds anything to what is written here, 281 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:57.679 God will add to that person the plagues described in 282 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:59.840 this book. And if anyone removes any of the words 283 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:02.480 from this book of Prophecy, God remove that person's share 284 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.480 in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City 285 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:08.039 that are describing this book. He who is faithful witness, 286 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.240 he who is the faithful witness to all these things, says, yes, 287 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.279 I am coming soon. Amen, Come Lord Jesus. May the 288 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:17.600 grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's Holy people. 289 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:20.039 That's a lot. 290 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.559 So the last big prayer is Amen, Come Lord Jesus. Yeah, 291 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.080 that's it. So it's a dangerous prayer on one side, 292 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:28.960 but on the other side, it's the culmination of everything 293 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.600 we've been hoping for. Right, It's not something God doesn't 294 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.840 tell these these things that make us afraid. God tells 295 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.879 us these things to let remind us he's in control. 296 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.200 He's in charge, and it is going to work out 297 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.399 just like he said it would. And so you know, 298 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:42.720 we literally just read the back of the book and 299 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:46.240 Jesus wins. So nothing else should scare us. 300 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.360 Did I ever tell you? I think I told you 301 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:51.399 this before, maybe I didn't, But did I ever tell 302 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:55.200 you that we had this thing at our Bible college 303 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:56.879 and it was called Fellowship Week, and you sort of 304 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:58.480 had to be there, and a bunch of preachers came 305 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.000 in and so the whole field house is filled with 306 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.919 probably I don't know, maybe a thousand preachers from around 307 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.399 the country. And one guy gets up and I don't 308 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.679 even remember his name. I don't even remember this this 309 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.440 guy's name, but he got there and he said Revelation, 310 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:15.960 chapter one, verse one, and he started to read Revelation, 311 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:17.360 and all of a sudden, you're sort of, you know, 312 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.919 wondering when he's gonna get done, and you realize that 313 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.879 he's not looking at his notes, and it's up on 314 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:25.399 the screen behind him, but he can't see it. There's 315 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:28.759 no teleprompter, you know, in the field house, big gymasium. 316 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.279 So he reads all of number one, chapter one, and 317 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.879 you realize that he isn't memorized. And then he continues 318 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.960 on in chapter two and then he what he does 319 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:43.559 is he uses no other words other than the Bible, 320 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.639 but he starts preaching it with passion, right, and he's 321 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:51.759 describing the things just like this, but he's only reading right. 322 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.480 And he goes through all twenty two chapters. Wow, And 323 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.240 it took him like forty eight minutes the whole book, 324 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.440 and he had memorized from chapter one to chapter twenty 325 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.759 two every single word in Revelation. His message was a 326 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.840 forty eight minute reading through of the entire book. Wow, yeah, 327 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.000 and just screaming it yeah, and then and then finally 328 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:14.679 and I remember it. So there is no possible way 329 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.559 in my entire the rest of my life that I 330 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:21.279 can't read the end of this book and not see 331 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.000 the eruptive applause of everybody standing to their feet and going. 332 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.000 And then it was like a twelve minute standing ovation 333 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.879 from every pastor in the room who's thinking, I can't 334 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:38.639 believe this man has memorized twenty two chapters verbatim in 335 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.320 front of everybody and preach it with passion, and somehow 336 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.000 it was like the best sermon ever. 337 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.720 Yeah. Yeah, right, but God's word works out pretty good, Yeah, 338 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:47.840 pretty good. Yeah yeah yeah, but so did. 339 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.879 Everything that No, and then amazing yeah, And so everybody 340 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:53.200 just stands up and erupts an applause, and every people 341 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:55.240 are crying in the room. I'm telling you, I'm talking you. 342 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.919 It was just amazing. So I love the phrase blessed 343 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.279 are those who wash their robes. He's talking about in 344 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.120 the Blood of the Lamb. It happens a couple chapters earlier, 345 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:09.519 and there's a there's a place and Paul is writing 346 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:14.600 in the Epistles, and he says, we are clothed in 347 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:22.639 His righteousness alone. Right, So when you place your faith 348 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.519 in trust in Christ, everything about our life, the Bible 349 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.879 says that we are stained like crimson, Crimson being bright red, 350 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:32.000 bright red stains. You know those are hard to get out. Yeah, 351 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.879 and so it shows, it shows bright. It's where the 352 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:38.080 idea for the Crimson letter came from, by the way, right, 353 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:42.279 So this idea of you're marked, there's this bright shame 354 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:46.320 on your white robe, how dare you right? Look? How horrible? 355 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.840 And so this is the idea, is that that our 356 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.480 sin is bright like scarlet. There's no hiding from it. 357 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.639 We are stained by it. And then when we place 358 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:58.919 our trust in Jesus, before we place our face in 359 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.200 trust in Jesus. Romans chapter seven, Paul is talking about, 360 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.279 Oh what a wretched person I am. The things I 361 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.119 want to do, I don't do the things I don't 362 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:08.680 want to do. With the things I wind up doing, 363 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.960 I'm constantly chasing my tale spiritually, I can't get all 364 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.400 the religious stuff done right. He says, Oh what a 365 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.359 wretched man I am? Who can ever save me from 366 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:21.240 this body of death? Because he knows he's completely stained 367 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.720 by sin. And then he says, thank God only through 368 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.480 our Lord Jesus Christ. And then you turn the page. 369 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.160 In Romans, chapter eight, verse one says, so there is 370 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:35.240 now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 371 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.480 And it uses the word in on purpose. It means, 372 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.079 the only hope I have is not that I can 373 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.519 clean up my stain, but that I'm plunged into Jesus, 374 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.200 where God can only see Jesus righteousness. And so then 375 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:50.920 Paul goes on and he talks about we're clothed in 376 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.599 the righteousness of Jesus. But then there's a moment, some 377 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.160 moment in time, as you come to the end where 378 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.200 we have washed our robes in the blood of the Lamb, 379 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:05.119 and jesus red blood cancels out the red of this 380 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.799 crimson stain in our sin, and now we have white robes. 381 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:09.960 And he said, it's only the fact that you are 382 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:13.319 clothed in Christ righteousness that now all of us will 383 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.400 be able to walk into the city that have placed 384 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:16.960 our faith in trust in Christ. Those whose names are 385 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.279 written the Lamb's Book of Life, those who have washed 386 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:21.599 their robes in the blood of the Lamb, and he says, 387 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:27.039 so all this beauty, all this peace, this perfect human society, 388 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:30.759 everything that God always planned, with God in your presence 389 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:35.440 all the time. The essence of everything good and perfect 390 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.519 is because of the of the fact that your robes 391 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:40.160 have been washed in the blood of the Lamb. And 392 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.480 that's why Jesus said you must be born again. That's 393 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.119 why Paul says, there's no condemnation for those who are 394 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:47.559 in Christ Jesus. There's a moment that you were out 395 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.240 of Christ Jesus, and then there's this conscious moment when 396 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.799 you receive the free gift and he makes you clean, 397 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.079 and then all the rest of these benefits. And that's 398 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:58.160 why we can shout, Amen, Jesus, come quickly, right right, 399 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.240 come quickly. If that's what's coming. There's no more death, 400 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.599 there's no more disease. He wipes every tear from our eyes, 401 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.079