WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.120 Well, we're picking back up in the book of Revelation. 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:04.799 We broke from the book of Revelation. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:14.400 We spent about four weeks in it, and then we we stopped, we hit pause, went through the season of Lent and Easter, and so we're picking back up in the book of Revelation in chapter five. 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.679 John wrote this poetic letter, sits at the end of the Bible. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:18.879 Strange, right? 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.320 Weird, strange words, imagery. 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:23.760 It's very poetic. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.519 John's very poetic in it. 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.800 And he's writing this letter to seven churches. 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:33.359 John calls these churches seven stars within the letter. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:41.840 And it's just filled with imagery because John is using both literal and figurative language throughout the book. 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:47.200 Now in Revelation 4, just review real quickly so we prep ourselves to head into five. 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:53.280 John begins to have a series of visions and he writes them down for these churches. 00:00:53.920 --> 00:01:01.840 So he has this vision of God's throne, and around this throne are 24 elders and four creatures, funky, funky creatures. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.879 So the elders represent God's people. 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:11.120 And the four funky creatures represent the four winds, or all of God's creation. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:23.280 And so together, what we have, when we get this imagery together, is what we have is we have all of God's people and all of God's creation resounding in worship and praise to the Creator. 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:30.560 And so the starting point coming out of Revelation 4, heading into 5, is this worship is our response. 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:35.519 It's a response to being astonished by God's greatness and lavish love. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:37.200 It's a response. 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:39.920 Friday night I was lying on the couch. 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:41.599 Finally, everyone was in bed. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:42.959 The house was quiet. 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.480 Turned on the TV, turned on the Hawks game, right? 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.560 Are you aware that they're in the playoffs? 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:49.760 I become a Hawks fan. 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.640 If they make it to the playoffs, that's when my fandom kicks in. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:53.760 They're in the playoffs. 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:55.599 We made it, so now I pay attention. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.280 We're down 2-0 to the Heat. 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:58.239 Not sure if you're aware. 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:00.319 As of Friday night, turn the game on. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.359 Third quarter, about like 10 or so, something like that. 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:08.000 Right when I turned it on, if you watch the game, you're aware of what happened at this point in the third quarter. 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.759 The Heat went on a 21-0 run right when I turned it on. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:13.680 And you're always a little bit like, did I cause that? 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:15.599 Like, did I something? 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:17.120 Do I need to turn it back off? 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.240 And I'm sitting, I'm laying there, I'm like, oh, they're awful. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.000 I'm just like, ah, they're awful. 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:23.360 Nobody's going to the basket. 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.080 I'm like, the amount of complacency, like, I can't stand it. 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:26.800 Like, I can't stand it. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:28.159 So I flip over to the Bucks game. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:29.280 Like I switch over to the Bucks game. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:29.680 I'm done. 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:30.719 Like, I'm done with this. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:31.919 I'm not a fan anymore. 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:32.560 Done with it. 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:34.080 Go over to the Bucks game. 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.319 30 minutes later, I decided I might be a fan again. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.479 And so I flip back over to the Hawks game. 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.319 And it's like, we're down one with 10 seconds to go. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:42.879 Right? 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:44.479 We're down one with 10 seconds to go. 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:46.159 And Trey Young takes the ball. 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.479 If you watched it, you know it was sweet. 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:49.919 I mean, it was good. 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:54.000 He went the length of the floor, about eight seconds. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:54.960 He's weaving. 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.680 He's down, floater in the lane with four seconds. 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.560 That thing kind of bounces around and drops through. 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.800 We go up one, we win the game. 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:03.919 I'm on the couch. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.520 I'm like, yeah, I mean, that was amazing. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.919 I mean, I love a game-winning shot. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:09.039 I'm going crazy. 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.599 Like, I am I'm silently screaming. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.120 Y'all have done that if you have children. 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:17.680 You're silently like, ah, you know, like that's what I'm doing. 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:18.960 It's amazing. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:20.960 I couldn't even help it. 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.840 That was my response, right? 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.400 That was my response to seeing something great. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:27.360 Couldn't help it. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:28.639 I didn't think about it. 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:33.360 Wasn't trying to just be disciplined to cheer really hard here in this moment. 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:34.879 Just a response. 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:36.319 Just a response. 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.000 Worship's a response. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:39.199 That's what it is. 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:43.039 Worship is not try harder and do more. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.120 Worship is gaze longer and be astonished more. 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:57.039 William Temple, early 1900s British Anglican priest, he said this about worship. 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.000 You can Google for this quote later because there's a lot to break down out of this. 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:02.879 It's so good. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:07.840 Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:34.240 It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness, the nourishment of mind with his truth, the purifying of imagination by his beauty, the opening of the heart to his love, the surrender of will to his purpose, all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.480 And I love that. 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:45.600 This idea of the submission, our imagination, the opening of our hearts, surrender of our will, all of that is being in response to God. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.639 So now we're ready for chapter 5. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:50.720 We're going to read some, dig in a little bit. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:52.800 Chapter 5, verses 1 through 7. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.519 We're going to read our way through the entire chapter. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.040 So a bit of reading here. 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:59.439 1 through 7 at this point. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:11.040 Then I saw in the right hand of him, remember John's having this vision, then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:12.639 We're going to get to that in the coming weeks. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:13.439 Verse 2. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:18.079 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who's worthy? 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:21.600 Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals? 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:28.399 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:37.040 And I began to weep loudly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.120 And one of the elders said to me, Weep no more. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:51.120 Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:06:05.839 And between the throne and the four living creatures, and among the elders I saw a lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:11.600 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.240 Now, there's a lot in there. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:20.879 Right? 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.199 He didn't have four legs. 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.040 He's not covered in wool. 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:31.759 A lamb, as far as I know, I Googled this week, the feet are called trotters, long nails. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.839 I don't think they're able to literally open a scroll. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.519 I think we need thumbs to open, okay? 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:40.959 It's not literal. 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:42.399 It's not literal. 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.839 It's figurative, it's meaningful. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.480 Jesus here is portrayed with seven horns and seven eyes. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.759 That is that number seven in the Bible is a number of wholeness. 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:10.399 So John's saying, here I see Jesus, capable, who is like the Passover lamb, capable to open up the scroll, the redemption of God to us. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.639 Jesus is capable to do that. 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.199 And John's seeing him like seven horns and seven eyes. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:23.759 So like he's whole, he is whole completion of power with those horns. 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.879 He is completion of knowledge and seeing those eyes. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.839 See, it doesn't have to be literal for it to be true and for it to be meaningful. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.279 John's having this vision and he's portraying it to us. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:48.160 Jesus is all of this, even while he's not having four legs covered in wool. 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:55.839 Point number two is this Jesus reigns with lion-like greatness and lamb-like humiliation. 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:01.680 Now, those are theologian Michael Wilcox's terms, not mine, but when I ran into them this week, I love them. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.279 I think it's something for us to break down. 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:06.160 Lionelike greatness, lamb-like humiliation. 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.480 I think that's what's in the Narnia books, right? 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.160 You remember the Narnia books? 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:11.199 The movie? 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.160 Aslan, the mighty and caring lion. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.000 He gives up his life so Edmund can live. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.279 Sorry to ruin the story. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:21.839 It's been 72 years since the book came out. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:22.959 You've had time. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.439 We've all had time with this story. 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:27.040 And C.S. 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:34.080 Lewis does this to show us how much this mighty lion lavishly loves. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.600 There's this beautiful image in the movie. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:38.879 Here's the image. 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:41.200 I love this image. 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:48.480 Where Aslan has been killed, and Lucy's there just sorrowful. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:54.399 And what I love about it is she's just so completely comfortable and safe. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.320 Next to this powerful lion. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:08.799 I think Aslan shows us what Martin Luther taught 500 years ago in the 1500s. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.279 Luther said that God appears sub contrario. 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:19.360 Meaning God reveals himself under his opposite. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:22.799 Where we least expect it. 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.159 Lion and lamb. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.320 Here's how we see it lion-like greatness. 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:37.840 Communicating Christ's kingly status, his authority to set captives free. 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.480 Genesis 49, 9 and 10. 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.759 Judah is a lion's cub from the prey. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.320 My son, you have gone up. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.679 He stooped down, he crouched as a lion and as a lioness. 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:50.960 Who dares rouse him? 00:09:51.120 --> 00:10:00.159 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.159 It almost reads like a riddle. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:17.279 But when we're putting together the meta-narrative of the gospel of the Bible, this passage is saying, from the lineage of Judah in the Old Testament will come a powerful lion. 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:27.840 For out of Judah's line is King David, and out of King David's line is eventually Jesus, who is worthy to open the scroll. 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:41.440 Meaning, when we talk about opening the scroll, what we're saying when we say that is we're saying, worthy to forgive me, worthy to redeem me, worthy to declare me righteous. 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:42.879 That's what we're saying. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:51.919 Poetic language, beautiful language to say, worthy to forgive me, redeem me, and make me righteous by his work for me, not my work for him. 00:10:52.159 --> 00:11:01.759 Now, lamb-like humiliation, communicating Christ's humility to sacrifice, love, and redeem us on the cross. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:05.360 The idea of Jesus as a lamb is rooted in the Old Testament. 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:11.039 As Jesus becomes the Passover lamb, we no longer have to generate our own sacrifices. 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:13.840 God provides the lamb. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.360 Out of God's grace, God comes to us. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.159 Jesus is God incarnate, becoming the Passover lamb for us. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.039 We no longer have to make our own sacrifices to be right with God. 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.919 We don't have to sacrifice ourselves over and over again. 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:29.919 John knew this. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:42.159 In his gospel in John 1.29, John wrote, The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:44.799 Now, what are the implications for my heart? 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:46.480 Like, what does that mean, right? 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:47.519 Like, what does that mean? 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.240 There's a lot of like almost like religious language within that. 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:51.840 But what does it mean? 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:54.879 I think it means this. 00:11:55.200 --> 00:12:04.399 Christ is mighty as a lion, astonishingly supreme, and holds all authority over my life. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:13.120 And that may challenge you, but it is incredibly relieving because it is exhausting to be your own authority. 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.279 And second, Christ is gentle as a lamb. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:25.679 And this is why having a lion-like authority over you, God is authority, you're going like, I want more of that. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:33.039 Because Christ is gentle as a lamb, astonishingly able to welcome me, hold me, and care for me. 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:36.320 And here's the response to all that. 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:37.759 Here's the response we see. 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.600 Revelation 5, 8 through 10. 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:44.960 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders, right? 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:54.240 All of God's creation, all of God's people, fell down before the Lamb, holding each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:15.840 And they sang a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priest to our God, and they shall reign on the earth. 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:26.879 Point number three is this Jesus is worthy to redeem all of our hearts and receive all of our worship. 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.799 So this all includes you. 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:40.080 Like it includes you, no matter how beat up or broken or weary or exhausted or ashamed or guilty you feel. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.000 It includes you. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:53.120 And it also includes not just people who sip sweet tea and talk about azalea bushes, like we do, a lot of us at least. 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.000 I do. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:03.519 Let's walk around my yard, I'm gonna tell you about my azalea bushes, and let's talk about the you know the ferns coming up, and let's sweet tea, and maybe I'll pour you a glass of red wine, right? 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.120 Like that's my culture, that's my little niche in the culture. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:21.840 But this is people from all neighborhoods, and all colors and cultures and socioeconomic status, all nations and tribes and tongues, and there's gonna be a day where we get to get over our differences. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:27.440 All of us, and we're all gonna have the same song. 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.120 Worthy are you to take the scroll. 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:32.240 Right? 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.159 Worthy are you to redeem. 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:41.039 The word worthy is the Greek word axios, meaning having weight or befitting. 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:49.440 It's a word about what has rightful and enough significance for your life. 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.440 At the time of year we're in, we're surrounded by response, aren't we? 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:00.559 Those zealubushes, those sperms, they're I mean, they're popping up, they're they're blooming. 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.840 Here's a picture of Kennesaw National Forest in the wintertime. 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.559 That's winter in Kinesaw, right? 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:07.679 Wintertime. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.279 Now here's a picture of it the spring, springtime. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:12.879 Isn't that beautiful? 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:14.720 Don't we love when this happens? 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:23.200 All because of our earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees, right? 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:24.240 Hello, science. 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:24.799 Remember? 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:25.919 Do you remember this? 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.279 I learned it in college. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:30.559 I remember when I learned it, I'm like, oh, this is why seasons exist. 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.759 I never knew it. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:32.399 I never knew it. 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:35.840 23.5 degrees, we are tilted. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.360 And during the wintertime, we are tilted away. 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:50.320 And then with the Earth's orbit comes springtime, we are leaning toward that powerful significance of the sun. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:55.200 And everything warms and everything responds. 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:13.679 See, just like oak trees and dogwoods and ferns and pastas and azaleas, your worship is a response to significance, to the significance of the creation, the creator himself. 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:16.559 It's a response. 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:18.720 It's not do more and try harder. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.679 It's gaze longer, be astonished more. 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:25.200 And then we sing, worthy are you. 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:26.320 Worthy are you? 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:31.519 That's us saying, Jesus, you have rightful and enough significance for my life. 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:33.360 Jesus, you are befitting. 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.600 You are befitting for me. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:37.519 Listen to verse 9 again. 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:38.159 Just listen to it. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:38.960 It won't be on the screen. 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:39.440 Just listen. 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.720 And they sang a new song, because this is their response to all of it. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:51.919 They sang a new song saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain. 00:16:52.799 --> 00:17:00.399 And by your blood you rampsom people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:05.440 Maybe you're still trying to dig out of a hole of guilt. 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:11.119 But he is befitting for all the forgiveness you will ever need. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:19.279 Maybe you're weary from trying to be enough in performance-oriented faith. 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:23.839 But he is befitting for all the righteousness you will ever need. 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:37.279 Maybe your heart breaks for the brokenness of the world, for wars, for famine, for division, for illness. 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:39.839 And he is befitting. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.759 In time, he is befitting to redeem and restore all the sadness. 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.759 Maybe you're hounded by questions of self-worth. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.119 And he is befitting for all the belovedness that you ever need. 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.039 Maybe you even feel anxious about your standing with God. 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:03.599 You kind of wake up and just feel like you're trying to earn a smile on God's face. 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:09.200 But he's befitting for all the acceptance and security that you ever need. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:11.759 Let me close. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.400 Let me close by reading the final verses. 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:16.720 The verses read read for us. 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:18.079 Just let him wash over you. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.400 Revelation 5, 11 through 14. 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:43.759 Then I looked and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who is slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:59.920 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them, saying, To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever. 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:04.240 And the four living creatures said, Amen. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:09.039 And the elders fell down and worshiped. 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:10.720 Let's pray together. 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:20.240 God, thank you that our worship of you is not do more, try harder, but it's gaze longer and be astonished more because you are worthy. 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:24.640 You are befitting for our lives. 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:28.240 You are significant, ultimate significance. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.640 And you are worthy to open that scroll of redemption and restoration. 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:52.319 Would you help us to gaze more on you, to gaze longer, to be astonished more by how significant you are for the fullness of the sufficiency of the forgiveness and the righteousness we have in Christ. 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:58.240 And that you hold all authority like a lion and all the care and gentleness like a lamb. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:03.680 And in the cross that we see both proclaimed over this world and for our hearts. 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:05.200 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:05.839 Amen.