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27. You'll read through it and see something that God is saying.

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There is so much. It's a psalm of confidence in God. It really is. It's a psalm where the psalmist is just announcing and proclaiming his confidence in the sovereignty of God.

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You want to psalm 27. To read it, to meditate on it, to confess it to the

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Lord. Go into Proverbs 419.

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We understand the predicament that the world is in. You see, the world believes that they understand.

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The world believes that they perceive. The world believes that they can take care of it, but the world is in darkness. Because the way of the wicked is darkness.

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They know not over what they stumble. But what a truth, despairing truth that is.

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But you see, here's the other side of the coin. If you go to John 1 4, it says, in him was life and that life was the light of men.

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The light of men. You see, we believe that we're living and we are, but to really, really experience life that shows all truth.

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And it says, the Lord is my life. But when you read that, take this personally and stop.

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You see, when you say that the Lord is my life, you're confessing that it's offered to me. When you're saying that it's my life, you're saying that it's personal to me.

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It's not just some general thing for the church. It's not some general thing that's given to mankind, but it's given to me personally.

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But then it's something that needs to be appropriated and claimed. You see, even as believers, we have the

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Holy Spirit to welcome. We still make choices during the day, but which way are we going to go?

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Are we going to be satisfied with the darkness, or are we going to claim my light, my salvation?

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So our challenge to you is twofold. One, first of all, recognize and just get away from it.

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Just say, no, Lord, no, no. I have the Holy Spirit, this light. I choose this light.

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And the second challenge is to claim it.

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Please stand up. We are going to pray for you this morning. First of all, ladies, how about applause for these guys?

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These men that have stood up are given the gift of being fathers, are being the gift of being involved in their families, are being given the gift of being able to proclaim truth and to show life and salvation into their families.

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And so, Lord, lift up these men, encourage them, give them strength, we pray in Jesus name.

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Amen. And again, fathers, thank you so much. Okay, guys, how about a kickoff for our men's discipleship program?

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We had 20 guys involved. Some were here, some checked in on Zoom, but the opportunities are still there.

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We're encouraging men two ways. One, get involved with somebody on a mentorship, but two, and as significant and as important, get involved with somebody who is equal to you and admired.

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You should get into a discipleship program.

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The second one is going to be a week from tomorrow, which will be the 6th of July. The men's breakfast is going to resume.

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Amen to that. Have some pastries and coffee and that kind of stuff.

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Six o 'clock morning on Monday morning, the 6th. Come on out, guys, and let's fellowship together. All right, can

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I see the t -shirt I'm wearing? They're out there. First of all, Pastor Jeff, thank you for doing it. Jill Deegan, thank you for helping coordinate what we're doing.

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Sizes are starting to go, so get what you need now. We're always going to get more if we need it.

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There's two colors. One is for children, the other is for adults. So if you go out there and you grab a shirt, you can see

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Jill. We're asking for a $10 donation for the shirts. See Jill. Put it in an envelope designated for t -shirts.

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Put it in the offering box. But quite frankly, if you really need a shirt, go now.

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As Jesus hung on the cross, this is the forgiveness of sins.

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The atonement for my sins, the shed blood has been accomplished, and we are confident that our salvation is secure.

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It's a tell -us -die. It is finished. You get to wear one of these shirts, and somebody walks up to you and goes, that looks great to me, and it is.

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But you can say that's our profession. You see, we have a Lord, the

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Son of God, who came incarnate in his mission.

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The Savior took my life. How do

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I say this? All right guys, all together, it's a tell -us -die. The ladies carry and still putting the little bags out there.

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They're stepping stone bags. I just encourage you to go out there and take advantage of that.

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And finally, this is going to be really cool. We're doing it for the next two Sundays. We're going to be gathering here.

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The baptism that we were talking about next Sunday, we're going to move out through this, and we believe that we're safe.

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We're being socially respectful. But in two Sundays, so that will be the July 4th Sunday, it will be.

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What a great time. What a great time for the profession, for those who are doing it. If you are at all interested, see

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Pastor Jeff, see Pastor Ben, see myself. But in two weeks, we will have it.

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The last thing I want to say is, I know that Pastor Jeff, the service that he's using,

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I think it's called monkey something or other. MailChimp. MailChimp. Okay. Some emails have disappeared and don't show up.

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And if you're not getting Pastor Jeff's weekly, make sure that you are so encouraged to be together.

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We are so grateful for your blessings of good weather that we could be outside all together.

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This time now, as we gather and worship Lord openly, let's take it.

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Lord is my light. So now

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Lord, for the days and for the weeks ahead, as we are able, as the doors of our country, to share your good news with the world,

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Pastor Jeff takes us into Revelation 15 and opens up the power of that word to tell us time.

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Speak clearly through him with power when we pray. His name, his truth shall reign.

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Rejoice in his holy name. He is exalted, the king is exalted on high.

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He is exalted. He is exalted, the king is exalted on high.

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Oh, praise him. He is exalted for ever, exalted to die.

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Oh, praise him. He is exalted on high.

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He is exalted, the king is exalted on high.

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He is exalted, the king is exalted on high.

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You are exalted. You are exalted.

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You are exalted. You are exalted.

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You are exalted. You are exalted.

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You are exalted. You are exalted. Father, we do exalt you today,

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Lord, may I set you. You're still in us, Lord, in the habit of being and digging into your word every day.

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We thank you, Lord. Thank you for giving us your word, Lord, and allowing us the opportunity to come to know you with us.

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We stand and lift up our hands.

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For the joy of the Lord is our strength. We bow down and worship him now.

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How great, how awesome is he. We stand and lift up our hands.

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We bow down and worship him now.

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How great, how awesome is he. Together we sing.

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Everyone sing. Holy is the

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Lord. God is filled with his glory.

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Holy is the Lord. He's filled with his glory.

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Earth is filled with his glory. We stand and lift up our hands.

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For the joy of the Lord is our strength. We bow down and worship him now.

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How great, how awesome is he. Together we sing.

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Everyone sing. Holy is the

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Lord. God is filled with his glory.

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Holy is the Lord. God is filled with his glory.

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The earth is filled with his glory. It's rising up.

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It's rising up. It's rising up.

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It's all around. It's the end. Together we sing.

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Everyone sing. Holy is the

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Lord. God is filled with his glory.

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Holy is the Lord. God is filled with his glory.

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The earth is filled with his glory. My heart is filled with his glory.

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Revelation chapter 15, if you could turn there, verses 1 to 8.

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Revelation 15, 1 to 8. And I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing.

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Seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, but with them the wrath of God is finished.

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And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.

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And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, great and amazing are your deeds.

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O Lord God, the Almighty, just and true are your ways. O King of the nations, who will not fear,

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O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.

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After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened, and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen with golden sashes around their chest.

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And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever, and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power.

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And no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

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Gracious Heavenly Father, this morning we thank you that it is finished.

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We thank you that Jesus has paid the debt in full, and that we stand forgiven because of his blood.

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We ask now, Lord, that you would open the word to us that we would understand this more clearly, that it would motivate us to sing like never before, that it would motivate us to worship, to go forth proclaiming it is finished.

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In Jesus' name, Amen. Robert Van Kampen tells the story of a farmer who had a lot of watermelons, and he grew the most amazing watermelons each year.

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They just came in so full and wonderful. But the problem was there were some neighborhood teenagers who also loved his watermelons.

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And so every year they would come and steal them and just feast upon the watermelons for months.

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And the poor farmer would work so hard on his watermelons and have to see them stolen and lost.

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So he devised a plan. One year he posted a sign that said,

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Beware! Steal watermelons at your own risk. One of them is poison.

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So the boys came along and they saw the sign and they thought, We better not steal a watermelon. We don't know which one is poison.

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So they left the whole watermelon. His watermelons were safe.

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Until the next day he got up and saw the sign that the boys posted. Now there are two.

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And so the harvester, the farmer, could not trust his own watermelon patch.

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He didn't know which one of his watermelons was poison. And so the entire thing needed to be thrown away.

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He couldn't risk it. There could be poison in one of these watermelons. This is a wonderful analogy to the importance of believing everything the

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Bible teaches. If even one thing, one doctrine that the Bible teaches is poison, we'll have to do away with the whole book, won't we?

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And here's the problem. Many people come to the Bible and there is a particular doctrine that seems poisonous to them.

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And so they reject that one doctrine until finally they realize that to reject that means they'll have to reject the whole thing.

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And in time, they have to throw out the entire Bible. That doctrine is the wrath of God.

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This concept that a loving God also has wrath against sin and he judges sin.

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This concept is something that seems like poison to much of our culture.

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And so they end up rejecting that, but it means that you must reject the whole if you reject part of the counsel of God.

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So today we go to Revelation 15 and the subject is the wrath of God. There are two ways in which the wrath of God will be finished.

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One is when God pours out his wrath on sinners. And it is a terrible picture.

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It is a horrifying image and we will see it today. It's scary. But against that dark backdrop, that foreboding backdrop, comes the most beautiful picture in the

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Bible. And that is the brightness of the cross coming out from the darkness of God's wrath is this picture of love, this shining cross that is only fully understood against the backdrop of God's wrath.

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Because in the cross, there is a second way in which wrath is satisfied.

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And that is in the person of Jesus Christ. As he is punished, the father, it is his will to crush the son.

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And Jesus absorbs the wrath of God on the cross and satisfies that wrath, appeases that wrath, and so it's turned away from us.

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And on the cross, Jesus says to Telestat, to Telestat, it is finished, meaning the wrath of God against sinners who believe in him and are united with Christ, that wrath is finished.

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Let's read about it. Revelation 15. We begin with verse 1.

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Ben already read it for us, so we'll just go verse by verse. Then I saw another sign in heaven.

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Mark that word sign. It's sineon in the Greek. It means something that points to another thing.

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What is being revealed here is the wrath of God. Earlier in Revelation, we saw other signs.

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We saw the sign of the woman, which represented Israel giving birth to the Messiah. We saw the sign of the dragon.

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And that dragon is Satan, who comes down to the earth in wrath. And out of the earth then, out of the sea, comes the

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Antichrist and a false empire. The mark of the beast in Revelation 13, we learned about that.

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And then we saw angels proclaiming the gospel, proclaiming judgment. 144 ,000 witnesses.

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And finally, we come to chapter 15. Another sign.

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This one is great and amazing. Seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.

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Now, I want to tell you something amazing. Michael and I were looking at making telestai shirts long before we knew that this passage would line up with this

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Sunday. And it just so happens that the word for finished in the

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Greek is not te -telestai, but e -telestai. It is not it is finished, but another sense in which the wrath of God is finished.

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I want you to notice it has the same root, that root of completion, finishing. It was the providence of God that we would make these t -shirts today.

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In the providence of God, the passage that we're studying lines up perfectly with this central gospel truth, te -telestai.

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Mark this well, there are only two places where the word te -telestai is mentioned in the

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Bible. John 19, verse 28, and verse 30.

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Te -telestai, it is finished. What is finished? Two things.

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In John 19, 28, the reference is to the finishing of prophecies about the death of Jesus.

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John 19, 28, says in order to fulfill the scriptures, in order to fulfill, to complete, to finish the prophecies,

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Jesus said, I thirst. Now you have to understand that when Jesus was dying on the cross, there were a number of prophecies being fulfilled in that moment.

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There were a number of prophecies. One of them is Psalm 69, verse 21.

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They have given me vinegar to drink. That prophecy had not yet been fulfilled, but as Jesus hung on the cross about to breathe his last words, he said,

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Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, which is quoting from Psalm 22, verse 1.

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You guys know it? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But follow this.

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When he said that, his tongue was stuck to the roof of his mouth because it says in Psalm 22, my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

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He was so dehydrated in that suffering on the cross, his tongue was sticking to the roof of his mouth, so they thought he was calling for Elijah.

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When he said Eloi, Eloi, my God, my God, they thought he was saying Elijah. They couldn't understand it.

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And so he said, I thirst. And fulfilling Psalm 69, 21, they gave him vinegar to drink, but just in that moment, when that vinegar touched his mouth, it loosened his tongue just enough to say the final thing he needed to say.

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Tetelestai. And they heard it loud and clear. So there's a second meaning to Tetelestai.

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The first comes from John 19, 28. It is fulfilled, meaning all of these prophecies are fulfilled.

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Psalm 22 is fulfilled. Psalm 69, 21 is fulfilled. Isaiah 53 is fulfilled.

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All these things are fulfilled. The soldier's gambling at his feet. He sees them there. That's a fulfillment from Psalm 22 as well.

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They gamble for my clothing. But the second meaning comes from John 19, 30. And it is the word itself.

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He says, Tetelestai, what is finished? Answer. The wrath of God against sinners is finished on the cross.

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He has absorbed the wrath of God in full. He drank that cup to the dregs.

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He suffered in the place of sinners who are united with him. He fully paid the price of sin.

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The debt is erased. It no longer remains hanging over us. He nailed the list of transgressions against us to the cross on the tree through his wrist as he was pierced, according to Psalm 22.

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Tetelestai means it is finished. So it's an amazing teaching. And as we come to Revelation 15, 1, there is yet wrath remaining.

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That wrath will not be fulfilled in the body of Christ because he dies for those who are united with him in faith.

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Yet there's a portion of humanity that's not united to Christ in faith.

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They didn't repent through all of the judgments that have already come in the book of Revelation.

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So it says here, the wrath of God will be Tetelestai. Finished. Same root word, but slightly different.

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Finished in a different way. The wrath of God will be finished in judgment.

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So it's both terrifying as the black backdrop to the story of the cross.

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But it's also reminding us that it is finished and how we should sing with joy for what

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Christ has done. Verse 2, And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire.

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Isn't that a picture of splendor? Can you imagine that? Glass mingled with fire.

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What would that look like? Certainly majestic and glorious. This is a great reward.

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And also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. Question, how did they conquer the beast?

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Did they kill him? Did they conquer the beast by killing the

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Antichrist? Quite the opposite. They conquered the beast by remaining faithful unto death.

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These are martyrs who are killed by the Antichrist because they refuse to bow the knee to the beast.

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They refuse to take his mark on their forehead or on their right hand. They conquer by faith, resisting even to the point of shedding blood.

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And so we're reminded of what John said, writing down the words of Jesus in Revelation 2 and 3.

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You will notice in each of the letters to the seven churches, every one of them says to the one who conquers.

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And then they're given a promise, a promise of eternal life and blessing in the eternal kingdom.

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But that promise is for those who conquer. Just before the coming of the

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Antichrist, there will be a great falling away. It's called the apostasy.

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Jesus talked about it. 2 Thessalonians 2 talked about it.

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The apostasy, the falling away. I think we're seeing it in our day. People turning away from the message of the gospel for a different religion.

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Phil Johnson is the guy who works with John MacArthur. You guys know John MacArthur, right? John MacArthur, great teacher.

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He has a guy that's worked with him all these years named Phil Johnson. He runs Grace to You. Phil Johnson talks about this new religion that's rising in America and around the world, not just in America, that is replacing

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Christianity for many people. He calls it woke ism. Woke ism.

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I like to use the term social justice as being this new religion. But here's what Phil Johnson says.

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Woke ism is a nasty religious cult. They routinely declare people guilty for the sins of others, elicit rote confessions, and refuse absolution.

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They have no place for forgiveness, no doctrine of atonement, and therefore no redemption ever.

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Your kneeling won't satisfy them. There is rising in the world a false religion that Johnson calls woke ism, which is the opposite of genuine

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Christianity. Genuine Christianity does not call you to find your life, but to lose it.

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It doesn't call human beings to repentance, to grievance, but to contentment.

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And Phil Johnson lives this truth in his life. He just wrote a couple days ago, I haven't mentioned this here yet on Facebook, but my birthday gift this year was a cancer diagnosis.

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Prostate cancer. It's at an early stage and should be treatable, and frankly

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I could still die of old age before the cancer gets me. Nevertheless, it's one of many reminders that all flesh is like grass and the flower thereof.

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And when you really understand the human lifespan, it's striking how little time we have to make the most of it.

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Listen to this. I have no complaints. However, it's actually quite a helpful birthday gift to get at the age of 67.

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It's a potent reminder of what Moses wrote. The years of our life are 70, or even by reason of strength 80, yet their span is but toil and trouble.

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They are soon gone and we fly away. And I echo Moses' prayer in response to that, so teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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You see what Phil Johnson did there? He got a cancer diagnosis, but because he understands 1

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Timothy 6, 6, godliness with contentment is great gain. He did not take it as a fearful thing.

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He took it as a birthday gift. And he says, I have no complaints. Why? It points him to Psalm chapter 90, the

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Psalm of Moses. And that transitions us now into the third point.

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The song that these believers in heaven sing comes from Moses, we're told.

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I think that's a parallel to Psalm chapter 90, but Phil Johnson quoted for us.

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So look now at Revelation 15, 3 and 4. This is a song that I want all of us to learn.

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Maybe not memorize it, but know it by four movements. We should wake up every day ready to praise

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God for four things. Number one, his greatness. Number two, his goodness.

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Number three, his holiness. And number four, his cross work.

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These are the four movements of the Psalm of Moses. And they sing the Song of Moses.

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It's the Song of Moses, I think, because Psalm 90, the Song of Moses, verse 11 parallels with what we have here in verse 4.

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So John considers it like the Song of Moses from Psalm 90, the servant of God.

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And it's the Song of the Lamb because it's directed to the Lamb. Remember Revelation 5?

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Worthy is the Lamb. All praise is directed to God through the Lamb, Jesus Christ.

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So there's four movements. Let's look at them one by one quickly. Number one, greatness.

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Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty. We should wake up every day and praise

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God for his greatness. This is the God who hung the stars in the sky.

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This is the God who's giving us this cloud cover right now as we sit out on this beautiful field.

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He made the flowers of the grass. He talks about it in Psalm 90, that rise up.

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I think Rick just mowed this a couple days ago. Look how it's already coming back up. He makes the world.

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The sunset. I love when I go down to Florida to be at the beach at sunset. Anybody ever seen that? The sun setting over the

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Gulf of Mexico? And just the streaks in the sky. And it just makes you say, great and amazing is our

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God. We praise God for how great He is. Psalm 104, His creation. That's the first movement of this praise.

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But not only do we have an all -powerful God who made the world, made the mountains, and He made the days of the week.

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Did you ever think about this? Since creation, we still operate on a seven -day cycle.

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And Sundays are when we say to Telestai, it is finished. We remember the work is complete.

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Now here's the second thing. Goodness. He's not only a great God, He's also a good

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God. Just and true are your ways, O King of the Nations. Just and true are your ways.

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What are His ways? Reflects His character. What He's like. Our God is a good

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God. He's good toward His children. O King of the

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Nations, there's no better way to understand the goodness of our

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God than to look at the cross. It's there you understand that He's not only a powerful

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God, He is a loving God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only

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Son. That whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. When you think about the goodness of God, I picture

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Jesus hanging on the cross. In that moment of His own suffering, where was

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His heart and where was His mind? He looked from the cross and He saw John, the beloved disciple.

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And His mother Mary there. And one of the seven words, the seven last things He said was, Woman, behold your son.

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Son, behold your mother. He was caring for His mom. He was caring for John, the youngest of the disciples, the one who was there at the foot of the cross, even in His dying.

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That should remind us forever that this is a good God that we serve.

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He is good. And so He says goodbye. What a sad goodbye.

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And on the cross, He's also conquering lies. The devil is tormenting

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Him and tempting Him to come down from the cross. He has to finish the work to tell us that.

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If He comes down from the cross and does not die the death that we deserve, we go to hell.

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Isn't that true? And so He's being taunted while He's on the cross. You save others, why don't you save yourself?

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Come down from the cross. You're the deliverer. Why don't you deliver yourself and show that you're the

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Messiah? He refused to do that because of His goodness. He endured to the end.

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Hebrews 12 says that we have not yet suffered to the point of shedding our own blood. But guess what?

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The author and perfecter of our faith, He's so good that He did endure the lies. He conquered those lies on the cross.

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And if you need any greater image of what the King of the Nations, it says in verse 3,

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O King of the Nations, what is our King like? He's so good, He wears a crown of thorns.

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Thorns pressed into His brow. Third, in verse 4, who will not fear

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O Lord and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. The holiness of God.

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Holiness means set apart. Other, different, greater, transcendent.

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He is bigger than us. We are small here on earth. We are sinners. But He dwells in perfect light.

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No sin in Him at all. No darkness in Him at all. He is holy. And we should praise

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Him because He is holy. And we should fear for that reason.

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We do not deserve to stand in His presence. And this is why it's the Psalm of Moses.

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If you go back and look at Psalm 90 verse 11, the same thing is there. Who will not fear?

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He's so holy. The holiness of God means there's a distance.

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Just this gulf that's insurmountable. You can't get to Him. He's just so much bigger and greater than us.

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But the distance has been met. The sweat of Jesus, the blood poured out, is

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Him working to reach us. Him coming to us to meet that distance.

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So it says in the final movement of this, all nations will come. How can they come worship?

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They're not worthy. For Your righteous acts have been revealed. That's the cross work of Jesus.

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And they're revealed to us. We know that Jesus died for our sins because He said

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Tetellestai. Paid in full. The sin debt has been covered and erased.

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It's revealed to us in the word Tetellestai. I'm going to keep saying that word Tetellestai as many times as possible.

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Because I want you guys to get that word in your head. I want someone to come up to you and say, what does that word

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Tetellestai mean? You know what I want you to do when you hear that? I want you to say, well

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I've got a poem for you. This poem will tell you the meaning. I wrote this poem that comes out of Revelation 15, 3 and 4.

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The goodness, the greatness, the holiness, the cross work of Christ. Tetellestai of greatness speaks.

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By sunset streaks and mountain peaks and days of rest to mark the weeks.

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Tetellestai of goodness cries. Through sad goodbyes and conquered lies and piercing thorns above His eyes.

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Tetellestai means canceled debt. Where bloody sweat meets soldier's bed.

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And God declares the distance met. Tetellestai counts us unblemished.

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Not sins diminished or left unpunished. But paid in full for it is finished.

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That's the meaning of Tetellestai. Finally, verses 5 to 8.

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After this I looked and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened. And out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues clothed in pure bright linen with golden sashes around their chests.

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And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of wrath of God who lives forever and ever.

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And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power. And no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

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I think God had this day planned. What do you think? Because I didn't plan for it to end that way. The same root, it's telestosen.

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So it's not Tetellestai, but it has that telest in it. Which is that root for completion.

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Finished. This passage here is foreboding. The idea is it's ominous.

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Here you have the angels carrying bowls of wrath and what is to come is going to be devastating on earth.

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The bowls of wrath. We've already seen the seals, the seven seals which are the wrath of God according to Revelation 6 -17.

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Then we saw the trumpets and now finally we'll have the seven bowls of wrath to complete the outpouring of wrath on earth as God is judging.

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So how do we apply this passage? Revelation 15. First of all, let our songs be like the song of Moses.

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That's how we should sing. We should be passionate like Moses. When I picture Moses, I picture a very passionate man.

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Remember how he regarded the treasures of Egypt as not worth anything compared to know

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Christ according to Hebrews 11? He left all of that to go suffer with God's people.

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And the passion when he strikes the rock, even in sin. Moses is a passionate man, but then he's forgiven for that and he passionately follows

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God and he writes Psalm 90. He sings praise to the greatness of God, the goodness of God, the holiness of God, the cross work which he only saw in shadows in the

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Passover land. Secondly, let's apply this by saying to Telestai.

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I want you to wear that shirt like once a week. That means you have to wash it in between.

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Wear that shirt once a week. In fact, how about we all try to wear it next Sunday? I would like that.

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I won't be quite as sweaty just wearing a t -shirt. So we wear this shirt, but be ready with what you're gonna say.

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Maybe you just say that third line. To Telestai means cancel debt, where bloody sweat meets soldier's debt, and God declares the distance made.

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Then explain to them that the soldiers gambling at the foot of the cross represents us mocking

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God and living in our own selfish world. Meanwhile, God accomplishes the work on our behalf, sweating drops of blood and agony in the garden of Gethsemane.

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And then sweating on the cross, accomplishing the work that we could not, until he paid it in full, dying the death that we deserve, and said to Telestai, it is finished.

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You learn how you're gonna say it, but know what you're gonna say, because somebody's gonna ask you, what's up with that shirt?

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What does that mean? So be ready. Live life like Phil Johnson modeled for us.

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No complaints. Gratitude. Contentment. An example of one who has been redeemed by the blood of the

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Lamb, who understands that the distance that was met for him is a reason to praise forever.

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A reason to have contentment. Trust the whole watermelon patch.

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Even this horrible, scary doctrine of the wrath of God.

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But be compassionate on the lost, because wrath abides until someone comes under the blood of Christ.

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This judgment that we're reading about, this is certain. This will happen. The wrath of God will be finished.

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But we have the message of Telestai. It is finished for those who are united with Christ.

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So let's invite the worship team to come back up, and guys, let's close in a word of prayer that we would have this heart of gratitude and praise, and when we stand up to sing,

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I want us to sing like we understand Telestai. Amen? Sing with hearts of joy.

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Let's pray for opportunities to preach the gospel that this summer will be a summer of harvest. Let's pray.

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Oh God, thank you. Our hearts are filled with gratitude. Thank you for how great you are, creator of the heavens and the earth.

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Thank you for how good you are, that you came to earth and lived a perfect, obedient life, and loved in a way that the world had never seen.

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Greater love has no one than this, the one who lays down his life for his friends. Lord, this morning we confess that you are holy.

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You are distant and transcendent, and yet you met that distance on the cross.

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On the cross, you said to Telestai, it is finished. And so we praise you forevermore.

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Thank you for revealing this to us. Flesh and blood has not revealed this. It's the spirit of the living

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God. So help us now to go out preaching Christ and him crucified.

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Help us to say to Telestai in Jesus' name, amen.

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Sin hath left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow

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Jesus paid it all to me of my own

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Sin hath left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow

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And then before the throne

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I stand in good complete Jesus died my soul to save My wish shall still repeat

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Jesus paid it all to him

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I owe Sin hath left a crimson stain

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He washed it white as snow Jesus paid it all to him

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I owe Sin hath left a crimson stain

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He washed it white as snow He washed it white as snow

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He washed it white as snow He washed it white as snow And then before the throne

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Jesus died my soul to save Jesus paid it all to him

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I owe Sin hath left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow that put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.

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When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, it is finished.