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C:\LESSON\PRAISE\WORLAMB2.DOC 18.08.90
A NEW DEMENSION IN PRAISE PART 3
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
Rev 5:9 to 14 read
Today we will pick up from what we were saying last week
in --
Chapter 5: 1 it says --
and I saw in the right
hand of him that sat on the throne a book ---
Here we are looking again at a picture --
for the scripture
Says --
no man has seen God --
To man God is invisible -- so how can God have a right
hand --
I do not know -- but in his hand is a book - a scroll
-- and it is full ---
This full book takes on the subject of this entire
chapter --
The book is sealed with seven seals --
What is this book --
I think the best way of finding
out what it is about -- is to find out what it said when it
was opened --
I find in it everything that God originally planned for
man --
you might say it was everything that God had for man
before the fall --
That man should walk with God
that man should have dominion
and reign on earth under God
that there be no sin
but sin be overcome -- and evil finally judged
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In another way of saying it --
is God's kingdom on
earth and his will done on earth as it is in heaven ---
The trouble is the book is sealed and there seems to be
no one to open it ---
Why can it not be opened --
because there was no one
worthy ---
In Verse 2: John sees a srtong proclaiming with a loud
voice
saying --
who is - WORTHY - to open the book --
In other words who can be worshipped --
For whoever could be worshipped could open the book --
this was the qualification for opening the book --
John wept --
because there was no man in heaven nor in
earth who was able to open the book --
Who had sealed the book --
it was man --
It was man who had sinned -- man shut the book up --
so no angel could open it
and the eternal spirit -- God -- cannot open it
for he had already said if man has closed it then man must
open it ---
There is no man that can be worshipped --
So it is no wonder that John wept greatly --
for there was no unique man to open the book
no man of personal worth
that could open the book and release the purposes of God on
earth ---
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Then John hears a voice saying --
weep not John --
for God's plan does not depend upon man's ability --
Even though no one has been found worthy you do not have
to weep -- for God has the plan --
The voice says --
look stop weeping
behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah
the root of David -- has overcome
to open the book and to loose the seven seals
Now we are again back to cartoons -- because here you
have a picture --
A lamb with seven horns -- seven eyes -- and written
on the side of the picture -- the Lion of the Tribe of
Judah -- the root of Jesse ---
Now if you had read your Old Testament you would now be
excited -- for you know who this is --
Gen 49 says --
the coming Messiah would be the Lion
of the Tribe of Judah ---
2 Sam 7 says --
The coming Messiah would be a king of
David's line -- and David's father was Jesse ---
This is a description of the Messiah -- the promised
one -- and the lamb --
We see in Leviticus --
He is the sacrifice -- he is
the representative who died for the sins of the people ---
This is the Messiah -
the one who took our place
the one who died instead of us
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
Seven horns
Horns always speak of power --
Seven - this is the
day of completion -- the day on which God rested ---
Here is the one who has the seveness of the absolutness
of power --
or as Jesus said --
all authority is given
unto me ---
He had seven eyes
This is with perfection he sees everything that is
And the seven fold Holy Spirit proceeds from him
Peter said in Acts 2 --
Jesus had risen from the dead
and is exalted to the right hand of the Father -- and has
poured out that which you now see and know --
But what makes HIM worthy -- how is it that HE can
open the book ---
I think it is as to how he is identified -- and this
is as A LAMB ---
29 times in this book Jesus is presented as a LAMB --
this must be trying to tell us something --
He is just not a LAMB --
The Greek here is a --
DEAR LITTLE LAMB -
the kind of lamb you would find in you back yard--one that
played with the children ---
The sovereign Lord Jesus Christ is a
DEAR LITTLE LAMB
I looked for a Lion of the Tribe of Judah and I saw a
DEAR LITTLE LAMB
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God is saying to John --
do you understand the picture
On earth lions are the kings of beasts -- in heaven
lambs are the ones that rule ---
Give an enemy to this lion and he will tear it into
pieces --
But give an enemy to this dear little lamb --and
he will
Say --
may I die for you ---
29 times in one book -- Jesus the Messiah is presented
as the Lamb ---
When a great general is presented after his victory --
he is always presented in his battle dress ---
Whenever Jesus is presented in public after his victory
-- after his resurrection -- it is always as the Lamb of
God ---
As if to say
this is my battle dress
In this I went to war
in this I conquered
I am the Lion of the Tribe of Judah -- my battle dress
presents me as a dear loving little lamb who forever
Says ---
I am yours -
I am a tender Lamb who has given
of itself as food to the human race ---
Jesus presents himself to us as the Lamb --
Who says to mankind --
I am for you --
Are you hungry - then eat me -
Are you naked -- then clothe yourself with -- my
righteousness --
I will be your substitute -- your representative --
Come to me if you are weary -- for I am your resting place
---
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
Out from the throne of holiness - surrounded by the
covenant of the rainbow -- and with the flashings of fiery
anger against sin --
God said --
although I am holy I want you -- and out
from this comes the Lamb who
Says --
may I die for you ---
This is the picture that we are looking at --
It is this that makes him worthy --
He is the Lamb -- this is his worthiness --
This is why he can go to the thone and open the book ---
This why everyone going into Hallal's of joy ---
Verse 9 says --
they sang a new song --
They had worshipped God under the Old Covenant -- But
they had never worshipped God like this before --
This is a new song
This is something that has never happened before --
The God who had revealed himself in thunder and
lightning at Sinai would become --
flesh -- be as a Lamb -
and die for us --
In the O.T. they worshipped God for his lovingkindness -
and Covenant ---
But now we have come to realise what they were
worshipping -- was the starting point of a great revelation
of God --
for this is what it is all about
They sang a new song --
Saying --
Worthy art thou to take the book and to open
the seal thereof ---
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
Why is he worthy -- why - why --
because he was slain
-- and has redeemed -- or purchased us to God ---
They worship before him
That is --
they fall down --
they bow the knee --
they take their crowns and throw them down -
they raise their hands in worship --
He is worthy --
it is right that you are LORD OF THE UNIVERSE --
it is right that you take CENTRE PLACE --
you have earned it by being who YOU ARE ---
They are saying --
your kind of love and compassion
little lamb --
deserves you to be on the throne of the
universe --
your kind of love makes you worthy to be
Lord of Lords and King of Kings ---
This tells me you must first of all be born again --
to be able to worship ---
I do not want you to be too quick to agree about this --
I think you should think about it ---
You have to be born again to worship -- you cannot
Say --
Worthy is the Lamb unless you are totally
transformed from within --
Love - lamb love - that died for its enemies - is
worthy - this does not make sense to the world --
It is a miracle to be able to say this
Love that says --
you are my enemy --
are you hungry -- then kill me and eat me
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
This to the world does not make sense --
Have you really faced up to what the gospel is really
all about ---
Paul spoke about this in 1 Cor 1:18
He said --
for the word of the cross ---
What is the word of the cross
It is what I am saying now
It is equivalent to today's electric chair -- the
hanging noose ---
It is where we dispose of the worst criminals --
We used to sing --
at the cross -- at the cross
where I first saw the light --
The equivalent to this is --
at the electric chair -- at
the electric chair where I first saw the light -- or at the
hangmans noose ---
This is saying --
Jesus has gone to the cross--has
gone to the hangmans noose -- for his enemies ---
Christ the just -- died for the unjust --
Common sense --
says --
If anyone is going to die it is to be
the unjust --
When he gets to the cross --
He says --
Father forgive them for they know not what
they are doing --
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
This does not make sense --
I say --
get out of the old habit of just singing the
old rugged cross -- and start to feel it --
This Jesus is dying as a criminal for this enemies --
and as he dies -- he asks his father to forgive them --
This is the word of the cross
Paul goes on to say --
The word of the cross to those
who are perishing -- is foolishness ---
The word in the Greek language here is a lot stronger
than foolish ---
it means absurd -- the height of
ridiculousness ---
You do not mean to tell me that you beleive this talk --
You take the rats of this world -- are they worth
dying for --
to do this there must be something wrong with
you -- and when this rat puts you to death --
You say ---
God forgive him ---
God let him off -- he really did not know what he is
doing --
I have heard this said to be the good news -- and by
others this is a lot of rubbish ---
Paul is saying --
we preach Christ crucified -- this
is our message --
To the Jews this is a stumbling block --
this to the Gentiles -- this is foolishness --
where is the wisdom in this ---
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
But Paul says --
the foolishness of God is wiser than
man --
The world says --
it is foolishness --
God says --
the wisdom of man
is foolishness -- is absurd -- is ridiculous --
Paul is saying --
everything that the world counts as
right is wrong --
To confront the gospel and to understand what it is
saying --
it is a total reverse of everything that you
thought was right -- now it is wrong --
Everything that you thought
that was foolishness
that was absurd
that was ridiculous
is so right that you will fall down--and cast your crown and
Say --
worthy is the lamb -- for he is the only right
one --
This one who died on the cross -- is the one who ends
up the principal of the universe ---
It is saying --
this one not only died for you --
this is just the immediate benefit --
but this one has
introduced to us what life really is --
It is dying for your enemies -- this is the gospel --
For us to experience this we must also die -- I must
die to everything that the world says -- is right ---
Because everything that the world talks about is every
man for himself --
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
When I come to the lamb who is life himself --
He says ---
it is every man for each other ---
There is a choice here
It is either --
the Lamb slain and risen is
foolishness - is abusrd
and those who believe it are mad
OR
I fall down on my face --
Saying --
worthy is the Lamb --
he is the true and rightfull centre ---
This bit of worship will filter into everything else
that I have said --
Worship is NOT words only
worship is a way of life
To truely worship is to see that the values of this
world are truely lies --
and I live by the values of the
Lamb that died and rose again ---
As I meet my true enemies -- they would knife me in
the back if they could --
And everything that I have learnt from the world --
Says --
get even --- now I begin to plot as to how
to bring this about --
Is this the battle dress of my God --
OR
do I fall before the Lamb that was slain for its enemies --
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
Saying --
Worthy is the Lamb --
Or is it like this --
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger
be put away form you with all malice
and be kind to one another
forgiving each other just as God in Christ has forgiven you
Be imitators of God -- walk in love --
This is saying --
Worthy is the Lamb --
It is not something that I say just for an hour of two
on a Sunday --
Worship is a life style worked out ---
Every so often in public it is seen in word and deed --
but it is a life style first ---
I can stand before the Lamb -- and fully understand
what the word of the cross is --
He who had holy infinite -- eternal hatred of sin -- has
now come into our flesh --
bone of our bone
flesh of our flesh
God truely has taken on our humanity -- lives among us
-and has
the true feeling of man
the true emotions of man
So when he comes to Gethsemane -- the words that are
used by all the gospel writers -- are frightening words to
read --
but as Jesus goes into this garden -- he speaks
of
being crushed almost to death
Mark in 14:34 -- uses a Greek word sorrowful --
that is encircled -- hemmed in --
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
Usually used to describe a little child that has been
lost and is looking around in --
absolute terror -- out of
control -- of the situation --
Mark is saying --
This is how Jesus looked as he went
into the garden of Gethsemane ---
Why was he like this --
it was because he was making
a truly human choice ---
God the Father did not volunteer or push Jesus into
anything --
he is making a free choice -- a choice that
he holds back from ---
Saying --
If it be possible -- let this cup pass
from me ---
Being a true human -- but still being God -- but as
a true human he is about to die for his enemies ---
He takes the place of the sinner and bares the sin that
he has eternally hated --
bares it to himself -- and also
bares the wrath that comes from the throne ---
He made the choice
This is called the word of the Cross - and this filters
down through all of life --
If I am born again --
I can say --
Worthy is the lamb --
This is LIFE
It is LIFE in capital letters
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
The lamb comes towards the throne as it has been slain -
This is a picture -- and the picture is far better than
words --
The Lamb is alive --
He walks towards the throne - the centre of the universe
Yet he walks as one who has been dead --
Here is a living lamb that bears death in its body --
Which is to say --
In the death of this lamb --
death died --
and death is now carried by one who had
entered into it - and came out of it ---
You look at forgiving enemies -- and it will look like
the death of everything that you call -
self respect --
It looks like the death of everything that you count
right --
I am not talking about a little hurt --
I mean someone who has stabbed you in the back --
I mean your enemy
It looks like death to forgive --
But if I am --
Saying --
Worthy is the lamb
Then I am entering into this death -
And I pray --
Lord lay not this sin to their charge --
Father forgive them --
How can you say this --
it is because the lamb did it
first --
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
I do not lay the sin to their charge --
because it is
already laid to the charge of the lamb --
So all that I do is to enter into what the lamb has done
-- and I come out the other side alive --
alive as I have
never been alive before ---
This is WORSHIP
This is not bending the knee --
it is bending my whole life
my whole being
I give myself a living sacrifice
Then it is worked out at every level --
Throughout every hour of the day -- although I do not
use the words --
I am saying --
Worthy is the lamb --
I am making choices -- based on the fact -
Saying --
The lamb is worthy in what he did --
He should be on the throne of the universe --
because this is what life is all about --
In every area of your life you think this -- and the
Holy Spirit will make it real to you --
Each time it is your choice --
Each time you say --
Worthy is the lamb --
Worthy is the lamb that has been slain
for thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
and out of every kindred and tribe and tongue and nation
and has made us a Kingdom of Priests
WORSHIP THE LAMB PART 2
When I can say this - then my whole life will already be
turned around --
And my life is now being affirmed and reconfirmed into
true life which is --
LOVE --
AMEN.