September 5
Are we waiting for you?
Psalm 120-127/Revelation 4-6
OT
123:1-2 I lift my eyes to you, O God, enthroned in heaven. We look to the LORD our God for his mercy, just as servants keep their eyes on their master, as a slave girl watches her mistress for the slightest signal.
NT
4:11 ‘You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created.’
5:9-14 And they sang a new song with these words: You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were killed, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. And you have caused them to become God’s Kingdom and his priests. And they will reign on the earth.’ Then I looked again, and I heard the singing of thousands and millions of angels around the throne and the living beings and the elders. And they sang in a mighty chorus: ‘The Lamb is worthy–the Lamb who was killed. He is worthy to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.’ And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. They also sang: ‘Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.’ And the four living beings said, ‘Amen!’ And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped God and the Lamb.
OT Flash Points
Rise up
Go up
Ascents
NT Flash Points
The Scroll, seal & the Lamb
Martyrs ask, “How long?”
Answer, “Till your number is complete”
Are you holding up God’s judgment?
Perspective
Watch WITH Me – not – FOR Me
What is He after?
By the Holy Spirit we are able to watch with Him instead of expecting Him to watch with us
True perspective changes everything