Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: Laying your Crown

(08-07-2022) Ptr. Lynard Molo

=Laying your Crown=

*Revelation 4:1
"1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."

+Heaven is Open for God's People
+God gave us a glimpse our eternal home.

*John 14:1-3
"1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

What does Apostle John heard?

*Revelation 4:1
"1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.

Throne: signifies that there is a powerful ruler in Heaven.

3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.

+His appearance shows of His greatness.

*Psalms 104:2
"2 He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent;

+Robe: precious stones

+Rainbow: reminder of God's covenant with man.

*Genesis 9:11-16
"11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.

Who are the twenty-four elders?
•They are the symbolic representatives of the faithful people of God.
•Their white robes are the robes who promised to the faithful and their crowns are those promised to those who are faithful unto death.
•The thrones are those who forsook all and followed Him.
•They stand as representatives of the whole Church which one day in glory will worship in the presence of God himself.

5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
6 Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."

WHAT CROWN WOULD YOU OFFER TO GOD TODAY?
C-herished possessions
R-iches and wealth
O-ur Life -- time, talent, treasure
W- orldiness
N- onsense plans and ambitions