And what fun has been done to waste your time in the portion of Scripture. There's a book of Revelation, chapter 19. It can read from verse 11 to the end of verse 9, 13. And I saw heaven opened with water quite hot. Indeed, that sound of palming was called faithful and true. Righteousness he does judge and make wise. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many clouds. And he heard a neighbourhood, that no man with you. And with the Lord's help, we'll try to consider these words, to find the 19th chapter of Revelation. We have in these words one of the visions, that the Apostle John had on the island of Patmos. And he was sent on the island of Patmos at this time because he was banished to the island by the enemies of Christ and the Church. He was perhaps implicit on the island of Paris. Those who were involved in such an act thought that they would be taken off from the church and from God. And how thoughtful they were. For on that island, John the Baptist saw and heard more of the will and mind of Almighty God. That is a way to the good and benefit of Christ's church to the end of time. What does it mean, this? I'll draw it out. I'll read it. Remember this? We have from the first chapter to the last chapter on that island. They were thinking that they could be separated from this God. I'm not sure. Here he mentions that he had a vision. A vision. What's the first thing that he says? He says that he saw heaven opened. And that is something that we must always bear in mind. That it was a vision. A true vision, a real vision. Don't speculate, it was not what he saw. Even the word says that he saw an animal. And then he described what he saw. He saw a white horse. And that horse, that white horse, was and had no benefits when apart from its Riser. Its Riser who made the White Horse what he was. The White Horse was a symbol of purity and of wholeness and of power and of success. unto prosperity, what thou art, what thou art, what thou art of, and thou art nothing, and no man is worth apart from God. Yes, to dedicate success unto prosperity, for the pleasure of the Lord, would prosper in the hands of the writer. And of course, he describes the writer, the writer, and you know, soon he begins to say that John was taking up I said, well you can hardly take it up. With the heart of me, and with the glory that God the Father had conferred upon Christ as the patron of the Bethlehem covenant, the everlasting covenant of Christ. Of course, he's on his horse. have been exalted by God the Father. When John says that the writer is faithful to Him, he says more than that about the writer. He refers to the writer as the Word of God. The writers know less, very less, than the Word of God. And we know what John said. At the very beginning of his gospel, the gospel of God and the sword of God. And he says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was with God. That was the Word that was present among them, and enabled them to behold His glory, as the glory of the only-begotten of the Bible, full of grace. and follow the dance, whatever gives the word of the writer. And there's something else, one of the other things in the scripture that we saw that was true of the writer. The writer, as he says here, he said, besides, he said, was a flame of fire. It was a flame of fire. And then he was clothed with a vesture, dimly lit, dimly lit, dimly lit, and he was also king of kings and lord of lords. The first thing he says there is that his eyes were as a flame of fire. And that word Christ, you cannot describe the strength of the word Christ, the strength of the word Christ is atrocious. The word is sharp, atrocious. And the whole entity is atrocious. Sharp. So she said, sharp. The word is sharp, frisky, but perfect. into the hearts and thoughts of men, as if nothing was meant for him. We still know what we have to do. But this is a thing I cannot try to explain with actual courage. When does a sinner experience something of this? Do you know when does a sinner experience something of this? When he secretly has a conviction of sin. I wonder if there is anybody here who has a mental conviction of sin. When the sinner has a conviction of sin, when the Word of God will come to him, and the Gospel, With power, as the sword of the Spirit, he will be convicted of his sin and of his lusts. And Paul, my little Hebrews, refers to that stated condition when he says in Hebrews chapter 4, chapter 4 verse 12, verse 12, Yes, for the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharp as a blade to edge a sword, beautiful even to divide the center of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in sight, for dull things are dated and opened. Unto the eyes of him who sinned we have to turn. But those of you who are delirious, nor sinful, are conviction of sin. And the watchmasters, they would never know that, were it not for the spider. Yes. of the fact that his eyes, that his eyes as a flaming eye. And there's something else that he says as well about Clyde. He was clothed with a master, dipped in blood. In this writing, in these few words, he's bringing forward just a few words that you should believe in Christ. state of the human age. And yes, he knows that you and I know from God's Word, Christ in our nature, that he served in that nature. Yes. And that he had the time to drink the wine alone. And of the people there was none with them. None with them. The end. Forward. Backward. Singularity. All of us. All of us. We strike. What can I do? And his resurrection is here as well. For he is a very good writer and the king of kings and the lord of lords. Here is the one that who was brave and who most brave The Lord is ever in the midst of the footnotes and that cannot be separated from his death and his resurrection. He passed the night without a shadow of doubt that he is King of Kings. But Jesus is the first scribe and writer. And there's something else, too. That he was faithful unto him, and that Jesus was faithful unto God the Father. That's borne out by these words. Everyone's these words. It was faithful to the Lord God, who sent them along to the ones in the fullness of time, and it was good, and it was faithful to the Lord God, and submitted himself that wholeheartedly and willingly to the will of God, which was to close him and to put him to death. Faithful and true. And faithful and true to his covenant engagements, What were his covenant, his commitment, what he was engaged to in the covenant, what he vowed by himself. To confirm that covenant and to confirm the practice of the covenant and to see that For all have, and will do, and will believe in His name. Can I ask you a question? In the past, have you believed in Him? Well, if you haven't believed, what have you done? Believed. What a writer we have made. In the word of God, it is a gospel. Praise God. And in righteousness, he's just a judge, he's a judge, and made wise. In righteousness. Couldn't be otherwise. But he is the judge. I believe in God's word. I say this very often. When you don't say nothing, there's nothing in this world. You can read as many novels as you like, and there's pain. And there's... ...paintings as you like. But there's nothing. There's no word in the world. This world will never disappear. This word will never burn at you, or corrupt you. Not at all. Yes. John says again in chapter 5, it's God the Father. I better get the word of God in John's chapter 5 and verse 22. Verse twenty-two of chapter five of John's Gospel. What does John say? For the Father changes no man. What does that mean? Well, it has committed all changement unto the Son. He has committed all changement to this life, to his own regarded and redundancy. to the only mediator that is between God and man, to the man Christ Jesus. Though it is very clear from the scene that we have here, and the vision of the White House, and the seeming gentility that we have in these few words. That a battle, that a battle has been fought. That a war has been waged. And that a war has been waged. And when one battle is waged, who is the winner? When a baptist has a wisping vision from the beginning of time, from the beginning of time, my combat, the combats, combats are the Word of God. The war has been fought by the work of God and the Holy Spirit on the one hand, and the war has been waged against powers of darkness. You don't know that there are only two powers in this world. On the one hand, the power of darkness, and on the other hand, the power of light. It was wasted from the beginning of time by God's Word and Spirit, and it was waged, fought and waged, in the fullness of time, by the Sinner of God, in the midst of you. Wasted perfectly by Him. by his life of obedience, the presumptuousness, even that of the cross. And which by him, by his word, by his faith, through his public ministry, and by himself, perhaps, by giving his life as a false forbearance, by giving himself up and to God the Father as a living sacrifice. That was important. But that must be reached, still, in the Christ's vision, in our world. That, the world, as it is, is institutionalized by His word, by His will. I'm ready, I'm ready for such a battle and war. For the honour, for the glory of God the Father and the salvation of sinners. Yes. It's good, it's good to find everyone. You and I don't know that, but he knows it, and he's going to hide it. I will see to it. None of it will be lost. You cannot attend to them. I cannot attend to them. I cannot, and you cannot hear to them, any trouble. There'll be peace. And to whom of whom there are, to the owner, to all you call, there's a patient assembly, But this is so for the other glory of God, the eternal condemnation and damnation. God's will be glorified, the salvation of the Church. God's will be glorified or not in the entire conjugation and damnation. As soon as he had transformed, I saw heaven on earth. And behold, a white horse, the dear exalted one, was drawn carefully to me, and in righteousness he touched gently upon his eyes, for they were bright, and on his head were many clouds. And yes, not just one, but two clouds. as crowns, as an emblems of power, of authority, of honor, out of glory, out of goodness, of the truth that you are now perceiving by faith, to the swatting claws that the Holy Spirit would take the scales of Christ and of Christ, rather than receive the purity of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That's what the light of John saw. And he said, God said, that they would cut him off, Now, what a blessing it is to be a Christian. Let me say it again, what a blessing it is to be a Christian. It's good to be with Christians, yes, but there's something better still than that, to be one. You can't be with one. I don't see the end. It has to be a mission. A mission. All the crowns you mentioned, just in the masses, the crowns of God's work of creation. Yes, you may, you may start a ground. Yes, that's one of the grounds. For he has the preeminence in God's Word of creation and properties. That's the writing that we read. For he was before all things, they were created by him, for him, and by him all things consist. He is the upholder and governor of the universe, and we must confess that we are His power and His glory. What does the Apostle say again right to the Hebrews? He says to them in the first chapter, yes, to the second chapter. In the first chapter we read these words, it says, Yes, yes, has He in these last days opened unto us by His Son, whom we have departed, heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds. And then, in chapter 2, verse 7, Thou missed him, and did reward him the angels. Thou closed him with glory and honor, and did say to all, The works of thy talents. And in death, two ashes of jungle wine put him Paul the Protestant is there to his power and glory in holding the world, as you and I hold, at the end of time, well, like a restaurant. A restaurant. So that was his restaurant. The president of the nation, perhaps, but the remains, and they all shall walk forward as to the government, and the salvation shall be for them all. And they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years shall not be, but which of the years shall set thee at every time. Send on my way down, till I make an endless day for thee, and the salvation shall be for them all. Just as St. John's believed the Lord to grant it to him again, or as he would have it, of this Lord to him, in the power of the glory of the Holy One, blessed be the Christ which is with you. That's what we have in God's Word, and that's what we wish to achieve, the Word of God. Heaven and earth shall pass away, pass it, but my torment shall not pass away. The world as I see it, as you see it, the earth as I see it, but I know it, it's going to be destroyed. He told her it was well, about that. So that's one reason. Another reason is the crown, the crown that was conferred upon. and pride over sin, over sin, and over death, over the grave, and over Satan and the murderers. He was glorious. He destroyed us. in your nature, so soon that you give yourself to it. It destroys us. That's the eternity of death. That's the mark of the curse that you have sent on my soul. Christian men of Allah, they can come, they can see the grave, they can see, oh death, where is thy victory? Oh grave, where is thy victory? Yes, these foreign principalities and powers have made a show of them over the time of his past. Do you remember what he said to his great adversary? He said about them, he said this about him, he said, Prince of this world, he said, he has nothing in me. But Christ said to him in those letters, this is your hour and the power of God. And to those who weren't there, it was a crucifixion. It was a crucifixion. It was death. What did he say to them? This is your hour and the power of God. When they set it down, to be placed at rest with their souls, what did they mean? Oh, that this was established, that it was going to manifest and reveal the enmity, the enmity, the venom, the hatred that was inside of the Lord. It was his own and never was mine. This was a loss of his own, for his head, for his head of destiny was composed, unsealed, expounded for that damnation. And to those who were out for his consolation, this is surrounded in the blood of death. It was the hour when they were, when they did remain among us at the end of the day, the memory, the hatred that was in their heart with respect to the Lord of Lords. for they will play their part in the preservation of the Lord. All that, this was their only level that I got to respect. It was their only strength when their eternal destiny There was a force of persuasion from one of us, that man, an infidels, who believed in wicked man, who painted on the suns, who believed in darkness, dares to tell them this, that I respect. But I don't intend to keep you very long. I've got just a question I'm going to ask. And if you will just ask it, I'll tell you. Are you at all prepared by us to bless you? I am with those who are discouraged. Discouraged. I am with those who spout about it, who vomit. Yes. But to take further, to pause and to reset. I don't. Crucify. Crucify. I hear about it a lot, but what I know to do, what to do, is to go to him, he's the king, the king of kings, and he's going to pray, and when I pray, the Lord has answered me. The Lord has answered me. How can I just say to you that I am the enemy of Christ, who is passing by in the gospel and freely offering Ah, will you not believe it? Will you not reclaim it of yourselves? Will you not build upon it? What a time! What a death, isn't it? Ah, what does it do? What does it do? To die. To die. So why not die? So, I deal with these words, with these words, and take them with you, take them with you. Just as you would have to cover this whole chapter, this whole chapter to give justice to what we have here. And what if we don't give you justice, that's the question. Yes, when he conceived his family, he was thirteen, and the army which was in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in vines, and white as cream. And down to his mouth was a sharp sword, that, with it, he should slice the nations, and he shall roll them with a rotten iron, and he threatened to find the place of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God. Our heart awoke to the Word of God. We are just too free to try to shed some light. We can never do it. Now God, in the Holy Spirit of God, I meditate. Good Lord, in the Spirit, what are these few simple words for this old world? of souls, soul, that's life. On the way to it ends, may soon be the chance, even in Israel, of life's gesture of life. So, may the Lord bless these few solemn thoughts to us all. Let's pray.