A Revelation of Jesus Christ

I want to take a moment to praise God for the work of Sermon Index over all these years. I've been to a lot of these conferences, and I can't recall a time when the worship was ever sweeter than it was just now.

Recognizing God's Strategic Moments

You know, most of the time, if you look in church history, the people that were involved in the cutting edge of what was about to take place didn't really know what was happening. They were seeking Him, and things began to happen that far eclipsed everything that Asker thought, whether it's the history of revival, whether it's in the book of Acts, people gathered.

And I wonder if tonight could be such a moment for some people in this room. Just the worship together, the strategic time the Lord has that so many times we tend to walk right by powerful moments and never recognize them.

I just want to say my expectation is from the Lord tonight. Listen to this verse. In Psalm 34, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make her boast in the Lord.

The humble will hear about this and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and He delivered me from all of my fears. They looked unto Him, the people who sought the Lord, they looked unto Him, and they became radiant, it means in the Hebrew, they became radiant, and their faces were not ashamed.

When they looked at Him and they saw Him, the radiance of His person took up residence and radiance in them. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all of his troubles. Well, I wonder what the Lord has for you at this point in history.

Seeing God as He Truly Is

Everyone's talking about the nation they live in. I've had the privilege of being in 65 nations and seeing cultures and races and different things, and I can tell you that everything seems important, but it's all the same.

And tonight, if you think of the big picture, that's what the Lord wants us to see, the big picture. How would you start off a conference like we're having? What does God want to say to us, like a heavenly flash of light, like a photograph that leaves a spot on your retina?

When you look at everything, you see a spot, and it affects everything. Wherever you look, you see that spot, and God wants us to see something about Himself. You know, what comes into your mind when you think of that word God is the most important thing about you.

Who you think He is, who you perceive Him to be, and that's the question tonight, is whom do you perceive the Lord to be? There's some things He writes in the Scriptures that are meant to arrest us and to totally capture our hearts for absolute ever, but your concept and my concept of God, even if you've met Him, what you supply from the Scriptures and what you put together, what the Holy Spirit shows you, that is the most important thing about you.

It affects everything you do, and it means whether or not you and I will really worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. One of my worst fears is to get in some side pool with some people that are chasing their own ideas, whether it be in a denomination or whether it be, it can happen anywhere, and we end up making God after our image, and He becomes an idol, but it's not Him.

You worship a God, but of your own design, He says to people. You worship, not me, but you worship another Jesus, so it's important that we see tonight, I think, at the beginning, who He really is and have a true concept and knowledge.

A great dread in every heart in this room should be that we would invent something for our own convenience or some undealt with selfishness or pride or self-image problem that we use God to meet our own needs rather than really let Him show us who He is.

The earth is the Lord, and the fullness thereof, and all they that dwell therein, and so may that be so tonight. Now, I want to pray with you, too. I told Edgar, I said, why can't I pray for, I want to pray, so I'm going to pray with you.

Prayer for Revelation and Holy Worship

Bow with me, will you? Father, we have no hope on this planet but you. Vain is the help of man. It's not in any government. It's not in any plans. It's not in the laws that we pass. Our expectation is from you, and so we pray for that which is timeless and supernatural and from beyond that you will grip our hearts so that we lose sleep over what we see, so that we are moved in the bone level of fire burning that affects us to where we are burdened with the burdens of God and rejoice with the joys of God.

Teach us your way, O Lord. Lead us in that great way. A little knowledge that's real about you is worth years in man's schools about you. Teach us your ways and show us who you are and magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.

And so, Father, thank you for your word tonight. Use these scriptures. Use your word and autograph your presence so that our enemies and our friends and our co-workers and those we don't even know can sense these people are full of Jesus.

May it be so for the glory of your name. We pray that for your glory and honor. Lord, have mercy on us. Have mercy. In Jesus' name, amen. Worship him in spirit and truth. And to do that, you must see him as he is.

The Disciples' Limited Understanding of Christ

And it's not what someone else tells you, what you've learned. You think of the disciples, how they've been with Jesus for three and a half years. They were clean through the word that he had spoken. They had been given authority over serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy.

They had been given to know the mysteries of God. Their names were written in heaven, it says. They were men that he had chosen to be with him forever. But yet, at the end of three and a half years of the best teaching, the best example, serving in a way that we could never do, at the end of that time, the actual physical cross totally eclipsed their understanding so that they were hiding.

They were still sentimentally toward the Lord and they loved him, but they were sorrowful even after he told them that it must be this way, that he would go this way. He appeared to them, and it says, he rebuked them for their hardness of heart and slowness to believe what the scriptures, the prophets and the writings and the others tell about who he is.

And even after women came and told the disciples, he's risen, we've seen him. And they laughed him to scorn, it says, and their words seemed as idle tales. Now, I don't know about you, but for you to have the same amount of time and me to have the same amount of time exposed to the things of Jesus like they were, that's 30 ,500 hours they spent with him.

For you to have that kind of exposure to truth, you'd have to go to your church services or small group meetings or prayer meetings for the next 58 years for 10 hours a week. Do the math. Is it possible that some of us have let the visible daunt who he's trying to tell us he really is to us?

Is it possible that we could be like them? And tonight, when he appeared to them in the scriptures, he came to them, and it says, he opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures.

And their eyes were opened, and their ears were opened, and he took the book. Lo, I'm coming in the volume of the whole book it is written of me. I'm coming to do thy will. Oh, my God, your law is within my heart, says that messianic Psalm 40.

And you look, he showed them the tabernacle. He showed them the feasts. He showed them the offerings. He showed them all the things in the writings concerning him. He expounded to them, it says. And Luke writes the same thing about Paul at the end of Acts.

His message was Jesus. His message was the timeless Christ, not just the historic one, who he is beyond the cloud, beyond the sacred page. That's what we need to see tonight, who he is, you see. God gives us some truths in the scriptures that open up to us, from his spirit to us, a new understanding of his character.

This is life eternal that we might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you've sent. So many people are looking back sentimentally at Calvary, and they should look back at this and be moved by what he did.

The Risen Christ and the Message of Acts

Yes, the Lamb of God suffered. You read about it, and we see by the word of God what he did, and our hearts are melted. So we do our best now to do our best living for him, instead of seeing beyond, letting the scriptures open up to see.

Look, that's just part of the story, that when he was received up and he disappeared under that cloud, what went on on the other side of that cloud was everything. And this is the great message of the book of Acts.

It wasn't just walking on water or multiplying bread or sentimental things. It was that Jesus Christ is Lord. He's risen from the dead. And he's not just a faceless God. He has a character and heart. He wants you to worship him.

He's on conquest seeking to save and seeking to find worshipers in spirit and truth. So these truths tonight are meant to possess us, and I hope they do keep you awake tonight. I do. I hope you lose sleep over it.

I hope you have to get out beside your bed and just say, my Lord and my God, you are awesome. And I just, I can't believe what I've seen from your heart to mine tonight. So these are meant to shake you and overwhelm you.

John Introduces Jesus as the Lamb of God

And so I want to just consider with you for a moment, when Jesus was being introduced as the Son of God. He'd been for 30 years in obscurity, and nobody really knew who he was, and he chose his disciples.

But he was being introduced at Beth-Abraham. All of Israel had come out to be baptized by John the Baptist. And he did it down at Beth-Abraham. You know what Beth-Abraham means, house of the passage.

It was been 430 years in Egypt, and they came out. They had done their figuring. Israel, he's preaching. It's 430 years that Rome had been there, and since Malachi, and 430 years of that. They knew something's happening.

So they all came out to the same place where Joshua led them across the river into the promises of God, the four promises at Beth-Abraham. And there it was that they came to John and said, who are you?

And he says, I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm just a voice. And so that next day in John chapter 1, verse 29, that's our first text tonight. He looks in verse 29. The next day, John sees Jesus coming to him at the very place where they crossed into the holy land, into Israel in Joshua's day.

He sees Jesus coming, and he says, behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. This is the one that I spoke of which was coming after me as a man who was before me. I mean, John was older, but yet he said he was before me.

He was giving his timelessness. And so verse 33, I knew him not, but except he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said to me, upon whom you shall see the spirit descending and remaining on him.

This same one is the one that baptizes with the Holy Ghost. And verse 36, looking upon Jesus the next day as he walked, he said, behold the Lamb of God. Right where Joshua had led the people into a whole new beginning, Jesus, 430 years later, comes to that same spot, and he is baptized to fulfill all righteousness, to lead a whole new beginning, and bring the people of God into a whole new understanding.

And God introduces his son. Now, you would think that he could be... Well, I mean, why did John say, behold the Lamb of God? Why didn't he say, behold the Son of David? Why didn't he say, behold the Messiah?

Why didn't he say, the Word made flesh? Why did he call him the Lamb of God? You see, well, that's what's so important tonight. That's what he... He's introducing the Son of God, and this is how he wants to be known.

God, the most amazing characteristic through all the scriptures, consistent from start, alpha, to the omega end, is that he is the Lamb of God. All from the beginning, right on through, but here he comes, and he says, behold the Lamb of God.

God is introducing his son. Now, Hebrews says that all through the Old Testament, there are shadows and types. Shadows and types are to lead you to the things that are casting the shadow. In the book of Colossians, it says, look, don't let anybody judge you in respect of meats and drinks and all these other things and what you do, because all these things are a shadow.

They're to lead you to the feet of one who's casting the shadow. It's like you go to a drama in a play, and you're sitting there waiting for this very famous drama to begin, and you're sitting there where you're sitting, and up on the stage, there's an empty stage, and lights are coming in from the side, and you see suddenly a shadow begins to make its way out onto the stage.

You say, he's coming, he's coming. The main character's coming, and you see this cape, and you say, oh, he's wearing a cape. When he comes, he'll have on a cape, and you see a hat. Oh, and his sword. This character we're waiting on, he's going to have a sword and a cape and a hat.

And all of a sudden, the main character comes out, and you say, he's more than we ever thought. And now who keeps watching his shadow? He steps out of the wings of history from all through the Old Testament.

Jesus cast his shadow back from the book of Genesis right on through, and you learn about him through the offerings of the priests and the tabernacle and the priesthood. You learn in the wanderings, and you learn all these things for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit would say.

And you learn, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, but they didn't really understand it. But it says in the volume of the whole book, it's written of me. I'm coming to do thy will, Father. And so when he stepped out into history, the Father God says, behold, the Lamb of God, this is who the law is showing us.

I've spoken by the prophets and multiplied visions and similitudes, and all, all the Old Testament is about the Lord Jesus. So this is what he wants us to understand. When he says, there he is, it's God cast a shadow back through the Old Testament from his son's feet right in history when he made his appearing and all the way back from the beginning.

You see, this Old Testament is like the root of the flower, and the flower in the New Testament is the fruit of it and the beauty of it. And God plucks it and puts it in his throne room in heaven. And there today, he is there with power and might.

Israel's Expectations and the Lamb's Mission

So in John chapter one, the Jews are expecting a Messiah. They are. They come out to be baptized. They're expecting for a new beginning. But they're expecting a mighty deliverer on a white horse to come in and kick the rear ends of the Romans out of the land and take over the place like he did in the days of Canaan.

And so they're expecting this save from the enemies, but they were looking for a king and a prophet in that mighty sense rather than a savior and a priest. So it's like those mountain ranges, you can't tell how far apart they are.

When he came, not as they expected, John the Baptist could say, there stands one among you whom you know not. It's a blinded priesthood. And Jesus could say to many, many churches, there's one in your midst who's longing for you, who you don't really know.

You see, the Pharisees had a wrong concept of who Jesus really is. So that consequently, when he showed up, they didn't recognize him. Let me tell you, a lot of people have a wrong idea about what even revival really is.

So that when revival really comes, we don't recognize it. There's, some of us have been studying revival for a long, long time, but I'm telling you, everyone's creative. Just like the animal kingdom, they're so vastly different.

God, when he sends revival, it's all about Jesus and it's all about what he does and it's always glorious. So he's announced as, not as the root of David, not as the word of God, not as the Lion of Judah, but the Lamb of God.

And John is answering a question. Behold, the Lamb of God. There he is. See, the Pharisees would welcome a Messiah on the mighty white horse, but that's not how they needed him. Why did he introduce him as the Lamb?

Because that's where we need him, first of all. We sang about it. The fatherless, the down and out, the needy. You see, that's where I need him, a Lamb on the altar. So what I want to do is trace a shadow.

I want to trace it, it's going to be, I want you to write these things down. Write the scriptures, search the scriptures later and see if these things be so. You see, and you see when you begin to see they are so, it's going to break out into a chorus of hallelujah in your heart, because it'll be fresh no matter how much you know these things, if you'll do this and go through them.

The Lamb Typified in Genesis

I want to go back in your mind and heart. You don't have to turn with me, but I'm going to take you through it to the first thing. When the Lamb of God was typified way back in the book of Genesis, it starts off in like Genesis chapter four.

And you know that it says there that Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. And Cain and Abel were in the garden, and it came time that they came in the Hebrew to a specific place for a specific sacrifice to God.

And there they came, each one to worship his, the way that they understood. Well, Cain came by the best of his hard work, but it says that Abel brought the firstling of the flock, a lamb. And so here's a contrast.

You see, here's a beautiful horn of plenty with all the apples and bananas and fruits over here offered to God, the best of the fruit of the ground, which God has cursed, and a sacrifice lamb, which is ugly and rude and obtrusive.

See, it says in the New Testament, Hebrews 11, 4, by faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. And faith comes by hearing. Where did he hear this? Adam had told his sons because he himself, when he was in his sin, God sought him out and said, listen, there's coming a seed.

And he talked to him about the seed that would crush the serpent's head. You know the story in Genesis three. And it says, and God made for them coats of skin, coats, two coats out of one skin, first death in the Bible.

And God covered the nakedness of Adam and Eve. And that principle of atonement and a life laid down was seen to them. And Adam and Eve told their sons it had to because by faith, Abel couldn't have done it any other way.

And so he came and he offered a blood sacrifice. And we learn it's necessity. Abel's the teacher that the lamb of God is typified. But see, God takes it further because that would have been enough to tell us that God made coats, coverings for nakedness through sin.

Abraham and the Lamb Provided by God

But God takes it further because later in the book of Genesis, you see the lamb of God prophesied. When after centuries go by and God speaks to Abraham after he had Isaac. And after he had, excuse me, two sons, same thing, two sons.

And God says in Genesis 22 to Abraham at the end, toward the end of his life. He said, take now your son, your only son, the only one God recognized at that moment was what was Isaac. Take your only son Isaac to a mountain that I will show you.

And there you offer him up for a burnt offering. And if you know your Israeli geography, you will know that Mount Moriah, where he took him is right in the city of Jerusalem today. And it's the place that we would call Jehovah Jireh, which God will, in the mount of the Lord, it will be provided and sent.

So there they went to Mount Moriah. And in this chapter 22, it's the first time love is ever mentioned in the Bible. Did you know that? It's the first time worship is ever mentioned in the Bible. Did you know that?

And first mentions show what God's trying to get across, is the whole meaning of the word. Take your son whom you love, your only son. And it's shown the giving of an only son is a sacrifice. And I and my son are going yonder to worship, Abraham says, to show that worship is not just me raising my hands and feeling goosebumps when I sing, but it's rather giving back to God that which is precious, most precious to me that he's given to me.

And I give it back all that I am, all that I ever hoped to be. I give it all to thee. That's what worship consists of. So they come to this mountain and Abraham puts wood on Isaac's back, the same mountain, Mount Calvary.

And Isaac, the son, walks up the mountain with the wood on his back. And the father, who you don't see in that picture, is watching. And they come to that top of the place where God has chosen, where God will provide.

And as they're going up, Isaac looks at his father in chapter 22, verse 8, and he says this question. He says, my father, here is the wood and here is the fire. Where is the lamb? And Abraham says these words.

My son, God, will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. He prophesied the word of God, giving the lamb. Now, that's just in the mount where God will provide. And Abraham looked and he saw a ram.

Now, a ram is not a lamb. Just ask any of you. They'll tell you. It's not the same. But see, he looked up, it says, and he saw the place afar off. Oh, Abraham rejoiced to see my day. And he did see it.

And he was glad. How can you say that? You're not even 50 years old yet. Oh, I tell you, Abraham saw. Galatians says the gospel was preached to Abraham. He understood the same way that we can understand.

That it's the lamb who will die as a substitute for that which is most precious to me. It will be provided by God and only God can show me. My son, who is God, will provide himself a lamb. And the both of them went together.

It says together, together, together in Genesis 22. They went up the mountain together, father and the son. That's what happened on Calvary. Father and son together in the suffering of that moment. But see, it goes further than the lamb typified with Cain and Abel and the lamb prophesied with Abraham.

Passover and the Blood Applied

It goes, you see, in the book of Exodus, God expands it. You see, it's called progressive revelation in the scripture. God gives a seed. Genesis is called the seed plot. It grows. And he shows a picture there as in Exodus.

This, it's the Passover. They've been in Egypt all these years. God says, you believe in false gods? So he comes and every plague is an attack on the false gods of Egypt in that day. And they don't listen.

And so God says, well, I'm gonna get their attention. So he says to Moses, take a lamb. Every household, take a lamb. Your household won't be too small, but if your household's too small, join the houses together because this lamb that God provides is enough.

You take a lamb on the 10th day of this month, it's the seventh month, but it's gonna be such a special time. You're gonna begin your calendar all over. This is gonna be your new year. That's when Passover takes place, it begins their year.

All things become new. You take this lamb into your house, and for three days, I want you to examine this lamb, make sure it doesn't have any blemish or spot. You take this in. Nobody loves lambs more than little kids.

Here's your firstborn son, six years old, loves this lamb. After three days, after four days, the 14th day in the evening, here's what you do. You take this lamb outside your front door. The father puts his knees around the head of that lamb and takes a knife and pulls it across the throne of that lamb, and the blood spurts in what they call is a basa, it's a salt there.

It's an Egyptian Hebrew word, it's a salt. And they take this little bitter herb that they use to symbolize bitterness and repentance today, and they dip it in that blood, and they splash it on the top of that door and on the two sides, and when you look at it from God's perspective, it's the door that's the perfect cross.

Blood at the top where the crown of thorns were, blood on the side, and blood spilled and poured out at the foot. And God said, this night, I'm coming through on this evening, and when I see the blood, when I see the blood, I will protect you against all comers.

I will pass over, which means to set a guard over, not just to go by and don't look. It means I will protect you against all comers. So you see, it shows for the family. First, it's Cain and Abel for the individual, Abel.

Then it's Abraham, a family. Then now it's a whole nation family in the book of Exodus. Here's the family that blood covers from the death stroke when it comes, and it has to be, but you see, it's not enough just to take the lamb.

I mean, it's the same day that Jesus entered in Jerusalem is the 10th day of that same month when he entered in on four legs to the sheep gate in Jerusalem, and for three days they examined him, and never a man spake like this.

And on the 14th day in the evening, he died. His blood's pooling at the bottom of the cross, and for those who have eyes to see, they can see this is the lamb of God, you see, but it's not enough just to see the bloodshed.

It has to be applied. You have to come with a heart that's been sympathetic toward what God's saying to you, and take that bitter herbs of repentance and apply it to the doorposts of your heart. Today, this doesn't mean much to people, but in the early centuries, it meant I'm putting the blood over the doorway of life and out of the heart come the issues of life.

That's what it used to mean. Doesn't mean that now, but it used to mean that blood over the heart, the blood of the lamb, the blood applied. It has to be, but then it goes further. In Leviticus, the book about the offerings and the feasts and that the lamb of God is exemplified by Israel because you see over and over, over 20 times in the book of Leviticus, it says this lamb shall be without blemish and without spot.

It has to be a pure lamb. So you learn that to exemplify 20 times, this offering must be perfect to be accepted. It's character. You see the character of the lamb of God, but then you come to that mighty chapter in Isaiah.

Isaiah's Prophecy of the Suffering Lamb

We've got Isaiah chapter six. Isaiah sees the Lord and he's high and lifted up and he becomes undone. And you see his whole book change. People say there's two Isaiahs. You're right, there were. Before and after, when he saw the Lord as he is.

And so in chapter 57, he says, thus saith the Lord, the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with him that is of a broken and contrite heart to revive the spirit and the heart of the contrite ones.

And so you learn the brokenness and what happens when you see him. Who was it that Isaiah saw? Well, in John 12, quotes from that very chapter, verse eight, and from Isaiah 53, when it says, who, to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

To whom will he make known himself? John chapter 12, verse, in the 40s, and they're looking there, it says, it was him, him, him. The disciples did, though they did so many miracles, the Pharisees believed not on him.

These things said Isaiah when he saw his glory and saw him and wrote of him. It's Jesus is who he saw. The one that John saw and fell at his feet as a dead man. He fell, he saw the Lord Jesus as he is, but Isaiah comes and he says in chapter 53, that great chapter, so you see, he's not just typified and set forth.

He comes and he says in chapter 53, listen to what he says in verse five. He says, he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.

With his stripes, we're all healed. We are all like sheep having gone astray. We've turned everyone to our own wayness. That's what sin is, our own way. It's not robbing banks and spitting on people and murdering, that's just the effect of sin.

My own way, independence from God. And so the Lord laid on him, this lamb, the iniquity of us all. I love the way Isaiah says us, ours, wes. It's all, it's us. He was oppressed, afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.

He's brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. Then it goes to eternity. He was taken from judgment. He talks about what happened after that.

But you see, the point about Isaiah making this is the lamb of God is going to be a person. He's typified, he's prophesied. His blood will have to be applied. This blood, this lamb, he's gotta be perfect.

And Isaiah says, it's gonna be a man. This man's gonna be the Messiah. And on him is going to be laid all the iniquity of us all. In case you wonder that it wasn't Jesus, that that's what the Ethiopian was reading in Acts chapter eight when he's riding on his chariot and he's reading this very passage and Philip hears him read and says, do you understand what you're reading?

How can I except somebody guide me? And Philip joined himself and he began to preach to him. It's all about Jesus. In case you wondered, it's all about Jesus. So when you come to John chapter one, verse 29, behold, the lamb of God, this is the one that's been casting the shadow.

This is the one, he will completely remove the bear away sins. He's standing along you, but you don't recognize him as he is. You've got your own ideas about when God comes, what it'll be like. But he comes as a lamb, first of all, as he reveals himself.

Peter, Revelation, and the Lamb on the Throne

But then you go further and say in Peter, when it says in first Peter chapter one, that for as much as you know, you weren't redeemed from your vain way of life, from your sin, by your empty way of life, but you were redeemed with the blood of the lamb as of a lamb with Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world just for you, but was revealed in these last times.

And to you who believe, he'll be more than you ever thought. That's what Peter's saying. So you learn, it's clarified. You see, Peter not only looks forward to the future that God takes him to glory and sets him down, but he looks back and saying, this is enough to cover everything, a forward and a backward look.

He talks about this lamb will be raised from the dead. So when you get to that chapter, that's the other chapter that we're looking at in this night, chapter five of Revelation, you can turn there, chapter four and five, you see the lamb of God magnified, magnified by all the hosts of heaven.

And what a occupation is heaven involved in right now. If you could hear it to heaven, what are they singing? What are they saying? They're singing, recorded in the book of Revelation, about the blood of the lamb.

They're singing the song of Moses, translated and brought into eternity about the lamb that brought him out of Egypt, but brought us out of this world's bondage. They're glorifying the lamb of God. This is God's choice.

This is not just chance. I am the lamb of God, he's saying, Jesus is saying, and by all the heavenly host, he's magnified, the center of worship in heaven. But then you go further, by all of history and all of time, he goes into Revelation, chapter 21 and 22, and you see he's absolutely glorified by the Father.

The lamb's face is going to be the light in the new city of Jerusalem when it's made. We're the bride of the lamb. The goal has been reached. There's no more tears, curse, sin, and there's a new Jerusalem, and you see his authority and his power with the Father on the throne forever and ever, and we see his face, as I prayed earlier.

I mean, you know, if we really saw that, we'd be on our chairs, swinging our coats around our head, woo-hoo-hoo-hoo, I mean, we would be fired up, and they would fall on our face with the recollection of what it really means.

We would be absolutely blown away. You see, Revelation also says, this is the lamb whose blood was shed before the foundation of the world. He has a book, and he has a will, and it's known. It's not an emergency rescue plan.

Sin was anticipated and provided for before it ever happened. God knew all about my weakness before he ever messed with me the first time. Before, when I came to him, it's not like, well, you better not mess up.