September 1, 2024: Revelation 21: 1-5, 22-27, 22:1-5
"Worshiping Our Glorious God"
Main Point: When Jesus returns, He will make all things new and live with His people forever.
Main Point: When Jesus returns, He will make all things new and live with His people forever.
1. The Lord is Coming Again to Renew His Creation (Revelation 21:1-5)
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.
5 Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”
2. The Lord is Coming Again to Reveal His Glory (Revelation 21:22-27)
22 I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25 Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.
3. The Lord is Coming Again to Reside with His People (Revelation 22:1-5)
1Then he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of theLamb 2down the middle of the city’s main street. The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations, 3 and there will no longer be any curse.The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. 4They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.
5 Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”
2. The Lord is Coming Again to Reveal His Glory (Revelation 21:22-27)
22 I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25 Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.
3. The Lord is Coming Again to Reside with His People (Revelation 22:1-5)
1Then he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of theLamb 2down the middle of the city’s main street. The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations, 3 and there will no longer be any curse.The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. 4They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Questions for Small Group Discussion:
1. HOW WILL GOD DWELLING WITH US IN HEAVEN BE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM THE WAY HE DWELLED AMONG HUMANS IN THE PAST?
WHAT ATTRIBUTES OF GOD ARE REVEALED TO YOU IN VERSE 4?
2. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THERE BEING NO TEMPLE IN THIS CITY?
WHAT IS IMPLIED BY THE GATES OF THE CITY REMAINING OPEN AT ALL TIMES?
3.WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU THAT WE’LL SEE GOD’S FACE IN THE NEW CITY?
WHAT ATTRIBUTES OF GOD ARE REVEALED TO YOU IN VERSE 4?
2. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THERE BEING NO TEMPLE IN THIS CITY?
WHAT IS IMPLIED BY THE GATES OF THE CITY REMAINING OPEN AT ALL TIMES?
3.WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU THAT WE’LL SEE GOD’S FACE IN THE NEW CITY?
