JUN 19 2022 | Seven: A Study of the Book of Revelation S1E3 | The How Long?

Scripture: Revelation 6:9-11

Revelation 6:9-11 and the martyrs under the altar asking how long. The aim is the meta-themes of the book rather than pinning down dates and identities.

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Sea Change Church · JUN 19 2022 | Seven Ep 3 | The How Long?
Revelation 6:9-11
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Be Thine Carmen, come up here There you go Good morning My name is Carmen I'd love to meet you after church today And I have today's reading And I have today's reading Is from Revelation Chapter 6 Verses 9 through 11 When he opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar The souls of those who had been slain Because of the word of God And the testimony they had maintained They called in a loud voice How long sovereign Lord Holy and true Till you judge the inhabitants of the earth And avenge our blood Then each of them was given a white robe And they were told to wait a little longer Until the full number of their fellow servants Their brothers and sisters Were killed just as they had been The word of the Lord The word of the Lord Right on If you have your Bibles, open them up to Revelation 6, 9 through 12.

We're in the fourth episode of the book of Revelation. I believe it's fourth. I think I made a mistake there. I think it's the fourth and not the third. But nonetheless, we're in another episode of the book of Revelation. And we're going through the seals and the trumpets to see what God is saying to us as a book of Revelation. As Revelation, we're also looking at the meta-themes of Revelation.

Not trying so much to figure out exactly what God is doing in this exact moment or the exact date. Christians have been fascinated with trying to figure out the exact date of things or the exact people or who's doing what in the scripture. But rarely do they think about the meta-themes. We're looking at what is God telling us as a people. What can we learn from this scripture?

Today we are in the fifth seal. The fifth seal is interesting. If you see your notes, there is one more mistake. The first thing at the top of your notes. It says the sixth seal pertains. Actually, cross that out. It's the fifth seal. We're on the fifth seal. The fifth seal pertains to the righteous. And so we're looking at the fifth seal. Now the first four seals, if you were here the last couple weeks, looks at the four horsemen.

And we spoke about the four horsemen. Each seal released a horseman. So we had a white horse that came. It was the Antichrist. Came saying he wanted peace but bent on conquering. A red horse that was bringing a rider who brought war. You had a black horse who was bringing famine and inflation. And then you also had a pale horse who was deaf and Hades was following close behind.

Now what's interesting about the fifth seal of the seven seals, because we know there's seven seals on this scroll, that the fifth seal is the only seal that does not have a judgment attached to it. All the other seals have a judgment. It says, well, this horseman is going to come and he's going to release famine. Or as you'll see next week, there's going to be earthquakes and climactic change that is happening in the world.

So that's next week when you get to the sixth seal. But this is the only seal that does not release judgment, which makes it a really interesting seal. It actually is a seal that responds to those that have died faithful to Christ during the tribulation. And so as we look at these martyrs, if you would, these martyrs are spoken about. And when the seal is opened, you see this picture of all of a sudden God's throne, kind of like in a car, kind of like a hood opening, opens up.

And under it are all of these souls of people that were killed during the tribulation since it had begun. We know that the tribulation began with the release of the first seal. And that was the white horse that came as the Antichrist, coming as peace. And then there was, you know, a series of time, there was a set of time where these four horsemen were doing their damage.

And also the church was being attacked during that time. And many believers are put to death. Now we know that believers have been put to death for centuries, and it's still happening today throughout the world. We see that happening. But in this fifth seal, God turns his entire attention to those that were faithful during the tribulation. And we're going to answer the question, how do we know that it was during the tribulation?

We're going to look at these martyrs. And then more than that, what is the meta theme? What do these martyrs say to you? Whether God comes and takes all the believers up before the tribulation, so that would be called a pre-trib view. A pre-trib view is Jesus comes and he brings all, you know, the rapture happens before the first seal is broken.

I personally don't believe that, but I'm not that concerned. Like I said, I'm a pan-trib. I don't believe in pre-trib or post-trib or mid-trib. I believe in pan-trib that, you know, it all pan out when Jesus gets here. I don't think that that really matters as much. What matters is us being faithful, no matter what it is. But personally, I've never seen God pull his team off the field when push comes to shove.

And I think it would be important to have believers that are sharing Christ during the tribulation. That's just my opinion on it. But we see here that these believers are ones that are killed during the first season, the first four seals being broken. And then the place that happens is they end up underneath the throne of God. And so let me just read with verse 9.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. I want you to circle the word because, circle word of God and testimony, and the word maintained. Really, really important as we learn the meta theme from the martyrs. What can the martyrs tell us?

They cried out in a loud voice, how long, O sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood? Now, what is so interesting is they are actually crying out for judgment. They want to see judgment come. And we actually, we do want to see sin judged. I think one of the things we want to pray for those that are your enemies, but it is interesting here that they are crying out and asking for a, they're crying out and asking for justice.

Justice is a massive theme in the world today. We hear about it. We know about it. But these believers were killed for maintaining their testimony and then also because of the word of God. How do we know that they were killed during the first four horsemen? How do we know that they were, that their lives were taken? There's a couple of verses that let us know.

One, now if you remember Revelation, my first series, when I talked about the seven churches. Now, when God comes, he warns the seven churches. So remember how Revelation is set up. He comes and he warns the seven churches. He tells them, you're doing this well. You're not doing this well. I want to warn you. And he begins to lay a judgment out against them.

Realize this. Judgment always starts with the house of God. There's a scripture in the Old Testament where God begins to judge the people and he begins at the steps of the temple. He judges from the steps of the temple. And so judgment begins with the people of God. That God comes and he speaks to the churches. He says, this is a judgment, but I have grace for you.

But we know that there was going to be people that lost their lives during this season. So he said that to one of the churches in Revelation 2.10. Look in your scripture. He says, do not be afraid about what you are about to suffer. When he means that, he means that the horsemen and being released. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you and you will suffer persecution for 10 days.

Be faithful even to the point of death and I will give you life as your victor's crown. So he says that he will reward you with life if you maintain. In Revelation 3.4, he goes on and he says, yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me dressed in white for they are worthy. Now, when he's talking about these people that are dressed in white, and I don't want to get confused here, the reason we know that these people underneath the throne of God are actually coming out of the tribulation, they're not believers from years past or whatever, is because one chapter away, you'll see this in Revelation 7, God talks about a great multitude that is clothed in white.

They are the ones that he is referring to when he speaks to these souls that are underneath the throne. So, let me just quickly just say that again. The throne of God opens up. These souls say, God, that these are the souls of those who were taken and whose lives were taken during the first four seals that were broken. They cry out, when you avenge us.

And God says to them, hey, I will, but we need, just wait, be patient, because more people need to be martyred for my testimony and for the word of God. And when that happens, at the end of that, they all end up in, you'll see in Revelation 7, and we're going to get there. They all end up in this great multitude. Now, what does that tell us? It all clothed in white.

What does that tell us? It means that God uses the tribulation to win people to Jesus. Why does, when you look at the scripture, a lot of people oftentimes look at Revelation like, why is God so mean? Why would God do this? The reason God allows tribulation in people's lives is because he's trying to wake them up. He uses the tribulation that many might be saved.

And we see through this passage here that because of the four horsemen, because of all the things that he allows to happen on the earth, that some remain faithful. Now, I personally believe that you have believers that we are not taken up. I believe that we go through the tribulation, whoever that set of believers is. It could be us. It could be a thousand years from now.

But I believe that that set of believers will share Christ with many during the tribulation time, and they will come to know Jesus. They will be martyred. They will be killed for their testimony. And then they will wait until that full number is taken up and made up, and we see them come together. So what can we learn from this? Well, here's the first thing I think we can learn.

Look at verse 9 again. When you open the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain. Why? Because of the word of God. Let me just say the first thing here. They are committed to the word of God. You cannot be committed to the word of God if you don't know the word of God. The word of God is faithful. The word of God is true.

And they believe the word of God. The next thing it says is that also they had a testimony that they maintained. It means that when society came with new ideas, society came with saying that good is bad and bad is good, that they said no. That they maintained their testimony. I'd say how easy is it? I know it is for me to begin to look at certain arguments and look at things and just begin to take the things that you once believed and begin to soften them up.

Begin to soften your stance on what the word of God says. What it says that these martyrs, what can we learn from them? That they were committed to the word of God and they maintained a testimony that Jesus Christ was true and that Jesus Christ was Lord. You'll see in a box that I put there in your notes. It says this. The martyrs of the fifth seal are kept waiting under the throne of God.

And they were given white robes even before the day of judgment. Now this is super important, okay? Judgment has not happened, but they are still in God's presence. We'll talk about that in just a moment. They are immediately in God's presence and they are wearing white robes. They have taken their robes. And Revelation talks a lot about robes. If you want to do a Google search today for just a little extra study, you could put in robes in the book of Revelation.

You will see all these robes. Jesus in a robe that is drenched in blood. It's a white robe, but it's been dipped in blood. The people with soiled robes and with the churches, he says, you know, you have soiled your robes. To others, he says, I will take the bloody robes that you have and I will give you a white robe. That's what he does with these martyrs.

And the robes are a symbol of righteousness. The robes are a symbol of righteousness. Where does that righteousness come from? It comes to one, that you make the word of God just central to your life. And number two, you maintain the testimony of who Jesus Christ is. It is through that that we are made righteous. And the scripture speaks about it is that when we speak, what we believe in our heart and speak with our mouth, that those things will become our righteousness.

That we will be made righteous because of what we believe in our heart and because of what we confess with our mouth. If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that what? Jesus Christ is Lord, you will be saved. And so that is what is happening here. So I guess the first thing that I did for myself this week is I made a, I did a little tune up.

Began to ask myself about my life. I began to ask myself, what do I believe? What have I been doing? Where have I soiled my robes? Where are the places where I'm, where I'm no longer walking in the same testimony that I once walked in? On and on. And one of the things that came up to me, I mean, personally, it was, it was interesting because it didn't have to do so much with sin, but it had a lot to do with the poor.

It felt like God just said to me as I was taking inventory of my life, do you care enough about the poor? Do you care enough about the needy? And so for me, that was just something that happened when it came to taking an assessment. So here's the first thing for today. As we look at the martyrs, what can we learn from the meta theme? One, take an assessment of your life.

What do you actually believe and are you maintaining and holding to the things that you believe? I said this in, I'll say this in two weeks at my parenting class on values, that just because you say something is a value, it's not unless you do it. If you say that healthy living is a value, but then again, you're never healthy, you don't eat healthy, you never exercise, do those things, it's actually not a value.

It might be an aspiration, but it's not a value. So the first thing we learn from the martyrs is this. Do we actually value the Word of God? Do we employ the Word of God on a regular basis? And do we take stock of our life on the testimony that we are maintaining? That it says that we are sharing the Word of God with others. So there's a few things on the martyr's testimony that we're going to look at.

First of all, we're going to look at four parts of the martyrs. One, the martyr's testimony. What are they saying? Spoke about that a little bit. The martyr's plea. The martyr's blood turned to righteousness. And then the martyr's timing. And we're going to be looking at the timing of where these martyrs are. Let's go to the first one. It says that the martyr's testimony, one who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.

It said they had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony that they had maintained. Put yourself in that position. Maybe you've heard the story of Eastern Europe. And this was a sermon illustration that was preached a lot in the 80s during the time of the Cold War. And I remember when I was a kid, I got an opportunity to go to East Germany.

We went through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. And we actually went into East Berlin, which was really interesting. I remember the soldiers getting on the train or on the bus that we were on with guns. And it scared the heck out of me. But I actually got to go into communist East Germany around 1984. And I was back in 89 when the wall fell again.

But there was a story that they told about these KGB officers that went into a church. And they walked into a church. And maybe you've heard this. And they had their guns. And they said to those in the church, because it was illegal, they said, anybody who wants to deny Jesus, you can leave. The rest of you are going to kill you. It says that a third, a half, whatever it would, a group of people left the building.

And others stayed there. It says as soon as the building was emptied of those that had left that had denied the faith and denied their testimony, it says they laid down their weapons. They said, we're believers also. We needed to make sure that, you know, who was here was legit so that we wouldn't lose our lives. And so then they had a church service.

Put yourself in that place. Granted, you don't live in certain places in the Middle East or in Asia or different places. We live in a country where currently, we have spiritual freedoms and spiritual rights and religious rights and all of these things. But there are so many places all over the world where believers are being martyred on a regular basis and having to maintain their testimony.

Having to maintain the testimony. Put yourself in that position. It's so easy to go to church for all these different reasons. Because we need fellowship. Because we love people. Because we want to grow in our faith. But actually putting ourselves, when push comes to shove, will we maintain our testimony? You never know. I like to think that I would.

You actually never know until you're in that place, right? Haven't you learned that about your life? Like until push comes to shove, you really don't know about your true character until there's an opportunity to test your character. And here with these martyrs, in regard to the martyrs that we see, they were ones that chose to suffer death. Now remember, this is what Jesus said to those that were in Sardis.

He knows each individual church. That's what I think is so interesting. There was individual churches in the book of Revelation. And he was speaking to each of these churches. And he knows who they are. In the same way that he knows who we are. I wonder all the time, Jesus, what would you say to our church? Hey, La Jolla Christian Fellowship. You know, what would the angels say?

La Jolla Christian Fellowship, you know, in San Diego. You know, I know that you have done this with your deeds. Or you've done that. But you've failed to do this. Or what would God actually say to us as a congregation? And would we be a church that would be faithful? I think this is really important in a day and age where it feels, to me, that it's getting more and more difficult to maintain the testimony of Jesus.

That the testimony of Jesus, the maintaining what the Word of God says, it's easy to cut it back a little bit. I mean, granted, you don't have to be, you know, you don't have to do it in a way that is, you know, I would say, incredibly offensive to people. But maintaining your testimony are you want. And so that's the first thing is we have a testimony.

You know, it's interesting, too, that when you talk about having victory in our lives, remember in Revelations 12 from last week. So let's skip forward real quick to Revelations 12. Because it says that you will overcome the devil by one way. Revelations 12, 11 says this. This goes back to their testimony. Revelations 12, 11 says, It's interesting.

That word, they love their lives not unto death. You know, sometimes we can start loving our lives, right? Just thinking about all the good things you want to do, all the things you want. There's nothing wrong with that. But are we, when push comes to shove, do we have a testimony that matters? And are you willing to be scorned for the testimony?

Are you willing to be called all sorts of names? Jesus was, drunkard, hung out with pride. They called him, you know, Flanderer. All these things with Jesus. He was willing, but he was maintaining that. And so we see this from the martyrs. What is the meta theme of the fifth seal? Meta theme of the fifth seal is that they are committed to the word of God and the word of their testimony.

And Revelations 12, if we skip forward, says if you're going to overcome Satan in your life, you do it through those ways. You know, you don't have to wait to the tribulation to do that. The word of God will bring victory in your life. This week I had one of those days where everything was kind of crumbling in, right? Like, did you have that day this week when everything was crumbling?

And, you know, I get one or two of those a week. And, you know, and I try to fix it on my own, right? So I start fixing it by cleaning the garage. I don't know why that would fix anything, but maybe you're like, I just got to organize something, right? Just to make sure that I get this sense of control or whatever it is. And when I got done with doing all that, I finally just went and sat with the word of God.

Began to read through the Psalms, the word of God, about David and God and how he loves us and those that take shelter in his, you know, under his wing. And all of a sudden it just started, you see, the word of God is powerful. The word of God will bring change to your life. The word of God has a power that will affect that. So that's the first thing, the martyr's testimony.

We have three more quick ones, then we'll close. The martyr's plea. They're asking, how long, sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood? This is interesting, too, because they're crying out for justice. They're crying out for this justice. And what God says is, wait. We have a world right now that is crying out for justice.

And the church is called to step in and bring justice to the world. But God says, wait. And instead of answering their plea immediately, what does he do? He clothes them in righteousness. You see, he goes on here. It says then, if you go on to verse 11, Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait just a little bit longer, until a full number of their fellow servants, the brothers and their sisters, were killed just as they had been.

What's the interesting thing? Sometimes, in regard to the timing, we want what we want when we want it. I don't understand why they're crying out for vengeance. I don't understand why they're not asking for forgiveness. It doesn't make sense to me in this. But what I do know is God says, it's my timing that matters. And in the midst of my timing, here's what I want to give you as you wait.

I want to give you robes of righteousness. You know, so often we would trade a robe of righteousness for our timing, right? You want your timing. You want your justice. You want what you want when you want it. And God says, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's wait on your timing. What is the thing that you want right now? And he says, what you want is what I'm not going to give you right now.

But what I am going to give you is righteousness. So, you know, I guess that's a question I have to ask myself on a regular basis. How much do I want righteousness? I mean, do I really want righteousness? Or do I want just enough righteousness to assuage my guilt, right? You want to be just good enough that you can go to bed, which doesn't work anyways because you can never be good enough.

But you want to be just good enough that you can go to bed at night and think I'm a good person. There is no one that is good, the scripture says. He says that it is through his blood and the testimony that you will get a white robe and that you will be made righteous. The way to be righteous is to acknowledge Jesus Christ and his blood and what he did on the cross and say, I'm a sinner.

But Romans 5.8 says, while we were yet sinners, what? Jesus died for us. And so part of the martyr's testimony here is this. Is they're crying out for something that they can't make happen. They're crying out for something that they want and there's a lot more understanding where we could dive into that. But what I took away from it was this. Is that God is saying, I want to give you righteousness.

That you can want all these things, but I want to give you righteousness. And they were given righteousness because they had been killed and martyred for the faith. Next we see is that the blood that was on their robes or their blood that they died had been turned to righteousness. Then each of them was given a white robe. Now in Revelations 19.13, I want to skip ahead because there's all these correlations.

Like Revelation is so interesting. I want to encourage you to read Revelation. Because you'll start seeing these themes that are coming up on a regular basis. One of this is these robes. Now with the church in Sardis, he says to the church in Sardis that, he says, you know, you have soiled your robes. One of the things that he had said to one of the churches is you've been soiling your robes.

How easy is it to soil our robes, right? How easy is it to get involved in things we shouldn't be involved in, have thoughts we shouldn't have to be doing this. So in the beginning of Revelation, you have these soiled robes. But then you have these other robes that are given to those that maintain the testimony and the word of God. But then there's another robe in Revelation 19 where Jesus comes back and it says this in Revelations 19.13.

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood. Just this white robe and it's dipped in blood. And his name is the word of God. Now how do we know that's Jesus? Obviously because in John 1.1 it says, in the beginning was the word. And the word was with God. And the word was God. And so we see once again, you have this idea of a robe. You have an idea of righteousness.

You have the idea of the blood of Jesus. And then you also have this idea of the word of God. This is a theme that we just saw in the fifth seal, right? The fifth seal, they have a testimony. They have blood. They have white robes. They have the word of God. This is the exact same thing you see Jesus when he comes back. Is the word of God central in our lives?

I want to make the word of God more central in my life. I want to make righteousness more central in my life. I want to make obedience more central in my life. That we can have impact in this place and in this world. The martyr's blood was turned to righteousness. All right, next one finally is the martyr's timing here. And I just want to talk about this timing of where they are.

In verse 11, then each of them was given a white robe. And they were told to wait just a little longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just had they had been. And what I thought was really interesting is there's a lot of people that ask me, what happens when you die? Well, according to this scripture, this is before the great and final judgment.

The great and final judgment happens later in the book of Revelation. So where is the place that we go? And when we go there, like I used to be terrified that I'm going to have to stand before God and he's going to share all my sins and everyone's going to hear it. Like, trust me, no one's going to be caring about your sins when you're there. But, you know, and it's going to be like I'm going to be, you know, really tripping and I'm going to be, you know, frustrated.

And I'm going to squeak by, you know, by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin, you know, just barely going to make it through. Maybe you have this idea. You know, when you look at this passage, what we see is that these believers that were killed are immediately with God. Not only are they immediately with God, they're dressed in white. That seems preemptive and it seems presumptuous.

But it says in 2 Corinthians 5.8, we are confident, and I say and would prefer to be away from the body, for to be away from the body is to be at home with the Lord. Say, from what I understand with Scripture, as soon as we die, we are immediately with the Lord. You are immediately in a place of righteousness. Now, next week, you're going to see that when the sixth seal is broken, there's all this climactic change, right?

There's like earthquakes and there's fires and there's all these things, basically what you see happening constantly on the news. And so you have all this happening, and it says that even the kings of the earth go and they hide in caves. I would say in the Scripture, there's rarely a story where someone is in a cave and it's a good thing. When I look at the Scripture, whether it's Lot and his daughters, whether it's David having to run from somebody, like the caves are just never a good place.

The people that are on the earth when the sixth seal is broken, they are hiding in caves. But those that died are not hiding in caves. They're actually not hiding. They're being placed underneath the throne of God. What a better place, because God is a mountain, right? I read this today in the Scriptures. I was reading through the Psalms. You know, run to the mountain of God.

Hide in the mountain of God. God is a mountain. He's not a cave. He's a mountain. And he protects us. And I would say to you this, is if God, if we can believe that when we pass, that we will be with God, we will be, I mean, if you're going to live somewhere under the throne of God, it's a great place to live. I bet that just is awesome. If we can believe that for our future, can we not believe it now?

Can we not live under his presence? Can we not live under his power? Can we not believe and say, God, I want to go to you for my shelter. Where do you go for your shelter? When push comes to shove, when you finally, you know, you're kind of worn out, you've had a rough day, whatever happens, where do you go for your shelter? There's so many places that the world is like, hey, come here.

I want to, this will shelter you. But God is saying, on a regular basis, I want to be your shelter. And we see that even the martyrs end up underneath the throne of God. So the first thing I would say to you is in regard to where you end up after you die, I believe that you immediately end up with God because of his blood. And we are waiting. They are waiting for the judgment.

But you're not waiting in scorn with all your sin and with all your shame over you. You are immediately dressed in white. I believe that you're immediately with the Lord. And to be away from the body is to be present with the Lord. And so that is just an interesting thing that we saw there with these people. So what's the takeaway? What's the practical takeaway as we come in for a landing right now?

I would say this. If I got a practical takeaway, the first is this. Wash your robes in the blood of the Lamb. We need to repent. I know it's not a, repentance is not a great word, right? Like no one loves repentance. No one loves to talk about, you know, the only sin in the world these days is telling somebody that there's sin in the world. Like that's the sin.

If you point out sin, that's the biggest sin in the world and the secular religion of the world. But ultimately, God came to the churches and he said, repent. And I feel like the word that he says to us today is if you've soiled your robes, that he says to us, wash your robes in the blood of the Lamb. Dip your robe in the blood of the Lamb. No matter what's happened, that you say to the Father, Father God, I'm a sinner and I need to be saved from my sin because of your blood on the cross.

You know what? We have to start with us. We can point to so many other things that are happening in the world. All the different people. I see Christians all the time. They're always talking about people that aren't Christians. Paul, when he speaks about that, he says, I don't concern myself with people that aren't in the church. He says, oh, they're not in the church.

Actually, we need to get our, we need to get our house in order. And so the first thing I felt like the Lord said to me today is, I would exchange your robes. That if you have robes that have been soiled, that you would exchange those robes for ones that are white and ones that are dipped in the blood of Jesus. Amen? Let's stand if you would. We're going to take a moment to just redo what we do every day, right?

That is to tell the Lord that we need him and ask him to wash us clean because of the blood of Jesus. Let's just take a moment to do that. Bow our heads, Lord Jesus. I want to bless you today, Lord God. God. We ask forgiveness, God, for our sins. And if you need forgiveness of your sins, just say, Jesus, I just need, just in your own heart, I need forgiveness, God, today.

God, wash me anew. Just admit, God, I've just soiled my own robes, Lord God, and I need new robes, ones of righteousness, ones of your goodness and your grace and your power. Then also, God, to commit myself back to the word of God, to make the word of God central in my life, and to have a testimony that is more than just the things I want, the things I don't have that I want to have, but a testimony that is Jesus.

Lord God, we bless these people, Lord God. We ask that they come to know you in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Hey, have a great day today. We love you. We'll see you next week, seal six, and check it out. Please go get a cup of coffee and we'll see you soon. If you need prayer, come forward. Come forward. this is a very very good one, the world, the way, the way, the way, the way, the way, the way, the way, the way, the way, , the way, �� . the way, , the way, �� , the way, �� �� , the way!

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Sundays – 9:30 AM & 11:00 AM
Live Stream on YouTube & Facebook

Bible Study Classes
Check with Class Leaders

Location

627 Genter Street,
La Jolla, CA 92037

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