JUN 5 2022 | Seven: A Study of the Book of Revelation S1E1 | The Scroll

Sea Change Church · JUN 5 2022 | Revelation | Episode 1: The Scroll
Revelation 1:1-3
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It will never lose its power Amen It says this The revelation from Jesus Christ To show his servants what must soon take place He made it known by sending his angel to the servant John Who testifies to everything he saw That is the word of God And the testimony of Jesus Christ Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy And blessed are those who are near it And take to heart what is written in it Because the time is near The word of the Lord One of our One of our values here is fun and play So if you don't like to have fun You're at the wrong church So FYI We're talking about the scroll in Revelation today So this is actually contact paper My wife said, did you really want to use contact paper for your scroll?

I said, it's the best scroll I could find So we got it If you have your notes Start at the beginning here We're going to be moving into a brand new series Which is part two Of a series called Seasons in the Scripture Especially in Revelation And we're to the second set of sevens First sevens were the seven churches You had angels speak to the churches And we went through that last time So you can find that online You can find last year And so we're going through a bunch of different books Every single year in a curriculum And we are back to Revelation This series is going to be called Seals and Trumpets And we're looking at the different judgments of God And the purpose and reasoning for that judgment Today I am jumping back into Kind of an overview of where we are Before we actually get into the different seals And what they mean So from the beginning in verse one We're going back to verse one The revelation from Jesus Christ Which God gave him to show his servants A must, must, circle must Soon That's subjective, right?

Soon take place He made it known by sending his angel To his servant John Who testifies everything he saw That is the word of God And the testimony of Jesus Christ Blessed is the one who reads this aloud The words of this prophecy And blessed is the one who hears it Takes to the heart what is written within it If you haven't just read the word The book of Revelation aloud I encourage you to do it It's like a free blessing The Bible guarantees it So get on that when you have a chance Let's just talk about Revelation real quick And we're going to look today At the who, the what, the where, the when, and the why And really Simplistic It's very structurally simplistic And you can pretty easily In a weekend study Understand the structure of Revelation We're going to go through that today But let's just start with this Understanding If you're going to understand the book of Revelation What kind of book is it?

Is it a book of poetry Like the Song of Solomon Is it a narrative story Like perhaps the Gospels of John Is it history Is it the law giving It's none of those things It's actually a prophetic book And harkens back to the days of the prophets And so you have Jeremiah You have Isaiah And these prophets that would foretell Something which was to come And so you see this foretelling Of, and often times With prophetic imagery Usually with the scripture It isn't like Well on Tuesday the 17th of March This is going to happen God does it And he does that for a reason So I put that And I'll talk about that reason In just a second I put the book of Revelation Is a prophetic book Of the Bible Which reveals what must Must Happen Before the return of Jesus And the end of the world So all the praying in the world When things go wrong To stop these things from happening You can actually delay it There is some scriptures That talk about being able To delay things But God knows the time In his mind And we can either Bring things forward Sometimes Or hold things back By our partnership With God And these things But he knows when It's going to happen And what he says though Is what must happen This is something We need to understand As believers That everything we see in here Must happen And we need to be Looking forward to it In a way A spiritual looking forward to As we see in a moment Understand that these things Must happen So that Christ May be made manifest Throughout it says The entire cosmos Revelation balances I believe this is in your notes Revelation balances Apocalypse So we see apocalypse Great incredible things happening And hope So it's not the end of the world It's not hell So hell No hope in hell It's apocalypse For the end of the world Two things at once He is judging evil He is judging sin But he's also hoping That that tribulates people To making a decision To come back to him So the tribulation At whatever You know The seven years That you see in the tribulation Are actually a season of grace God over and over again Uses tribulation To bring people back to Jesus I had a pastor That once said to me The time to share Christ With people And to come alongside people Is when their lives Are being tribulated That is when they are Most often looking For new answers Because other things Don't work I said I want to work Through the structural elements Of this If you put the slide Up on the screen This is actually The reason I did A late handout today Was because structurally This slide that you're Going to see Will share a little bit About revelation And can I Can I steal yours Because I didn't get one So you're not going To have a slide Can you share with a friend Thanks You're going to see These different things That are happening So you're going to see The divisions Of the scripture Of revelation It is broken up And so you have These letters To the assemblies That's where we were Last year We were looking At these letters To the seven churches And then you have God's throne Now last week I said that I was Meditating on revelation Two It was actually Revelation four So if you went To revelation two Looking to meditate On that scripture It didn't make any sense Because it was actually Revelation four And we'll talk about Revelation four Here in a second But if you want A picture of what Heaven's like Revelation four Is one of the best Places to go You can also look In Jeremiah Isaiah In the early chapters When they stand Before the throne Of God You see then That there's also In chapters five Through seven You have the opening Of the seals Now we're actually Not going to get To the trumpet judgments I think we're only Going to have time In the seven week series To get through The seven seals Because I'm using One week to open up This week But you see this Opening of these seals And these seals Come to mean something We'll talk about that In a moment Then you have The seven trumpet judgments And then you have The seven signs In heaven You have the seven Bowl judgments Eden's restored And kingdom comes But it's very simplistic Now let me just tell you My approach To the book of revelation I grew up During a couple seasons About every decade The church gets really Interested in revelation And so you had Hal Lindsey And others in the 70s And the 80s And Russia is the You know The antichrist Or this person's The antichrist And they go on And then you had Left behind series In the 90s That was huge And I want to say First of all My approach Has understood this There has never Been a generation That I know Of a Christian generation Going back to Paul That did not believe They were in the end times There was not one So the whole like Hey we're living In the end times Because like When I tell other Believers often Like I think Maybe we have another Two, three thousand years They look at me Like I'm a heretic How could you think that If you just look around Can't you see What is happening Now look I agree Israel being reformed That's a big one Okay so I'm going to give you Israel The reformation Of Israel Thousands of years After they were broken down But I basically believe this I believe that revelation And prophetic literature Tells us what generally Will happen As opposed to What exactly will happen I tell it Because it wants us To understand There are things happening And it wants us To be prepared In season and out It wants us to know And it speaks about hope It speaks about a desire For God to love The unrighteous But also judge sin And so we can Keep us on the edge It means to keep us On our game And understand Things are happening They might happen now They might happen Two thousand years from now I want to say Prophecy is always proven In retrospect You can believe prophecy But it's only proven When you look behind yourself So you can't prove prophecy You can have faith in prophecy But you can't prove prophecy Looking forward I want to say There's been a few times Where the church I think if you were living In those times You could have easily said This was the end times So one obviously In the 1940s You have Hitler You have Israel becoming A nation after World War II You have the death You know the Holocaust With the Jews You could easily Have looked at that And like Dietrich Bonhoeffer Did and others Thinking this is They actually had a plot To try to kill Hitler They got really They were close To doing it Because they believed That he was the Antichrist Now if you were to go back To the year 1666 1666 was also An incredible year One because it was 1666 But in 1664 There was this massive comet That went through the sky And everyone in England Was asking themselves Does this mean something traumatic Is this the beginning Of the end times They began to ask themselves Well in 1665 what happens Well the plague comes back It kills 50% of the population Of London immediately Within a year and a half So you have this massive plague That hits At the same time You have Charles II Who's a very evil king I mean he was into bestiality It is rumored He was hedonistic His court He was just gnarly If you were going to look At a king that was like An Antichrist type figure It would pretty much be You know it wasn't It wouldn't so much be Oliver Cromwell As it would be Charles II And so you have that going on Then you have a war Going on with the Dutch So it says there will be rumors Of war and all these things And then what else happens In 1666 You have the great fire In London Which basically burns down All of London If you were a British Christian At that time You would think This is the end time You know what also Interesting happened In 1666 Newton divides sunlight With a prism Which is so interesting If you think he takes The light of the sun Goes through a prism And divides it into pieces Which takes true light And breaks it So you could see it As individual pieces Now maybe that's just You know My scientific bent in me Being interested But really interesting Things happen You could easily have said I would say that At 1666 If I lived in England Looks more like the end times Than I think now do You have some COVID But COVID doesn't compare To the Black Plague It just doesn't We're meant to look at this We're meant to understand It structurally But I don't think We're supposed to understand Every piccadillo about it Let me just tell you One other thing And I'm probably Going to have to Not get all the way Through these notes And make it in two parts Okay I got a few minutes Great Let me just tell you Maybe you've never Understood this Satan doesn't know Who the Antichrist is What?

Oh I saw a few heads about it Why? Does Satan know When the end times are? No Only God does And so Because he doesn't know He constantly has to have An Antichrist prepared This is why it says In the scripture That he This person was a Was a Constantly bringing Someone forward To accomplish His one world dominance And when that person dies He has to start His plan over again He's rising up Multiple people at once On a regular basis So that he can Do the things That it says In this scripture He has this evil Diabolical plan Like Spectre In the 007 Or is that Mission Impossible?

Whichever one it is And so Satan himself Doesn't even know Who the Antichrist is So I don't know Why the church Keeps trying to figure it out Because human beings Only have a lifespan Of what? Let's say 122 years I think the Bible says And so he doesn't know And I don't know If we should try to figure out either The question is No matter what's happening How do we live today If you know In the same spirit That we would If we were in The end time So that's how I see it And how I preach it I want to look at The who The what The where When And the why Before we look at this Scroll That I want to bring And talk about The breaking of the seven seals And why that's important First of all The who Of Revelation Revelation is full of characters And I don't really try to figure out Who the characters are I had a pastor That was our head pastor He got really into it He wrote a book And his whole Our whole church Went towards Trying to figure out Who they were He thought the two great witnesses In the end Were Billy Graham And Pope John Paul Well They weren't You know what I mean And our whole church Just It was revelation Revelation Revelation For like five years You know Everything we did Was about that So But what I think is important Is What do the two witnesses do Will they come and they proclaim Christ What can I learn from the two witnesses I want to be a person Who proclaims Christ Whether It's It's You know You know Literal That they are killed And then they rise up again Which I think could definitely happen Because remember They're killed in In Revelation And then they rise up again Or whether the dragon's a real dragon Or if it's not a dragon Or the whore that rides upon the beast Is she really a prostitute Is she a person Is it an idea Is it a thought I don't know But I can learn enough That the witnesses Preach Jesus So what can I learn From the witnesses Well I want to preach Jesus What can I learn About the false prophets The false witnesses The false prophets Well I want to be aware Of false prophecy I want to know the word of God I want to know that I want to know that That you know It says that the whore That rides on the beast I believe that she speaks Abominations and blasphemies About the church I want to understand What is the truth about the church And I want to understand When I see blasphemies I spoke about a blasphemy I saw recently When I was sitting by some guys In Tahiti And they you know Started smoking a joint And one said Hey you're going to love this It's called Lion of Judah Now in my opinion Taking a drug And calling it something That the Bible called Jesus called the Lion of Judah In my opinion Is blasphemy I think it's blasphemous I think when you take things That's what profanity is Is when you take holy things And you profane them So you know So that is one of the things That actually happened When I saw that But you have these different characters So here's some of the characters That are in this passage Will you close that I think they're hitting there Just close that for me please Some of the characters That you're going to see In this passage We have Jesus In this opening passage You have God You have an angel You have John So this is the beloved disciple We talked about him last week And then you have mankind And those are the characters In this passage Now as we move on There's a whole bunch Of other characters You are a You are a character In the book of Revelation And you will end up At the great judgment And you will either stand Under the blood of Jesus The blood of the lamb That was sacrificed For your sins Or you will be outside of that And God is doing everything In his power To get as many people To repent from evil Because he loves them And wants to spend Eternity with them And he cannot be tainted By sin So he can't have sin In his presence And Jesus in the blood So one of the reasons He brings these tribulations Once again Is it's grace Tribulation is grace It's not just I just want to punish These people Although what he's doing Is serving a dual purpose Because the sin Deserves punishment And we want sin To be Punished for Punished for So those are the Who of Revelation The what of Revelation It's a prophetic book Which I said earlier Of the Bible Which reveals what Must happen Before the return Of Jesus And the end of the world So we go to verse Three It says Blessed is the one Who reads aloud The words of this prophecy One of my daughters Is currently reading aloud She wants that blessing I read it aloud to her And she listened and believed And now she's all I want it for myself So she's reading I don't know what That blessing is But I will say The last one I read it aloud For the next couple weeks Something felt different I don't know what it was I just felt a little Closer to Jesus Let me just say that When I did that A couple years ago It's also a forth telling Prophecy Is a forth telling A lot of people Have tried to conflate That preaching Is prophecy It's one and the same It's not Preaching is Is speaking the word of God And there is a You know A bit of forth telling Of what might happen If you don't follow This edict of God Or whatever But prophecy Is in a different camp Than preaching And so it is a It is a forth telling Of something to come Now the other thing In verse one It says Let's go to verse one The revelation from Jesus So we know it's from Jesus He's the main character Revelation is revealing The number one thing That is revealed In revelation Is Jesus We want everything else Is revealed You know All these things That are happening And sometimes We miss the You know We miss the The forest Because of the trees Right We want to know All these These little idiosyncrasies About revelation And we miss What's being revealed Jesus I don't really care Who the antichrist is I just want to know Jesus more If you had to ask me Do I want to know All the markers Of revelation Or do I want to know Jesus I'll take the Jesus Every single time Revelation is a revelation Of Jesus And the first thing That is revealed Is Jesus Christ Is revealed There's a sword Coming out of his mouth Jesus Christ Is being revealed It says To show his servants This is for you If you're a servant He wants you to be aware Of the things That are going to happen So you can prepare yourself And live every day In this mindset It's game day Picture You know Fire people Who work at a fire station And when they're there It's game day They're ready They're ready to go They're ready to go On the next mission They're not just waiting For you know It to come But they live in that moment Now here's a side note When it talks about The things that must happen In Luke 21 28 It says When these things Begin to take place Stand up Lift up your heads Because your redemption Is drawing near I just feel like So much of what I hear In church For the last 25 years Is And I don't mean this Profanely But oh my God And for real Oh my God Like oh my God We're living in the end times What are we going to do You know what I mean Like I think The majority of the apostles Who thought they were Living in the end times Felt like I can't believe God Put me on the field You know For the final shot You know what I mean It's a seven year period Of time That we've spent a lot Of time thinking about it For thousands of years As a church These things happen Don't be afraid He says Our redemption Will come Fruition And when that happens It has to happen It'll become more and more evil More and more dark And when that happens God's judgment will come But after the judgment Comes what Becomes his revelation And our eternity with him So What I would say Is if And I think it's natural We live in fear As believers I think we need to Start saying Jesus You know Whatever it is I'm praying against These things I'm praying that you'll do this But whatever it is I'm excited about you Jesus Wherever we are In the picture No matter what happens Rumors of war Wars It says that people Will still be getting married When Jesus comes So there's people That are going to still Be partying Okay It'll be You know Bad things here Good things here You won't know And it'll come It says like a thief In the night So that's the What a revelation It's talking about What must take place To his servants And hopefully That's you The where of revelation Well This takes place In the throne room of God So this actual Speaking here What is happening What John sees He's taken to the throne In chapter 4 Remember he was on Patmos At first He was He was exiled to an island I think he was They tried to boil him in oil first I think Is one of the rumors Didn't work And so they sent him to an island He actually got off the island At the end He was the only disciple The apostle That was not martyred For his faith Which I bet Really bummed him out I've said that multiple times Like he really wanted to die For Jesus And Jesus is like You know what Here's gonna be the thing That you must suffer I'm not gonna let you die for me You're just gonna die Of natural causes He's like Come on Let's go Okay So You just don't get that one That he'd want to do that And be a martyr And so he He probably wanted to be beheaded Because it says That the martyrs That were beheaded They're the first ones To raise up So if you're gonna go Ask for the beheading Just FYI Trying to make light of it But it's true This is the scripture says That the beheaded ones Up to the throne of God So You see heaven In your handout Four there So we have the letters To the assemblies We have them You know Coming to him And then we're here In chapter four And it says in chapter four You are worthy Our Lord and God To receive glory Honor and power For you created all things And by your will They were created And have their being So whatever is being judged It says in this passage And there's more I just picked that one Little piece Whatever is being judged Is something that God Has created God has created things For a purpose And when we misuse The purpose Then we profane it And we take the things That are of God And we besmirch The things of God And so the where Is in the throne of heaven Now the next place So it goes from Patmos To the throne of heaven And then through Actually through the seven churches Then to the throne of heaven And then it comes back to earth And then throughout The rest of Revelation You see an interplay Of earth and heaven Things being set in earth Things being broken on earth Things happening in heaven Excuse me And then things happening on earth Things happening on earth Which causes things To happen in heaven And there's this interplay This interconnectivity That happens back and forth Through the book of Revelation I thought it was funny In the slide They put instead of trumpet They put because they didn't have space Put the slide back up On chapters 16 and 18 It says seventh Trump wrath of God I can guarantee you That happened in 2016 So It was just a joke I didn't know if it would work But I thought it was hilarious 93 to 96 We like to have fun here 93 to 96 AD This is when we think This happened with John And it says The day of the Lord Now it's also Juxtaposed with And most prophetic literature is It's like Hey this happened in the six years And this next thing Is going to happen In the day of the Lord Which is like Step into space And say Pick a point It's like When's that It says in the scripture That a day In 2 Peter 3 Is like a thousand years With the Lord I mean literally Paul and the apostles Like the Christians In Jerusalem Stopped working The Macedonians Had to take a Paul starts having With the church In Jerusalem Because they've all Quit their jobs They're not working And then people are just Going to the communion meal To get free food And like It's just a mess Because they tried To time it out And they were Absolutely wrong And so We don't understand that When it's all going to be And you know There's questions Well are you a pre-trib This is a big thing In the 70s I don't hear it as much anymore But are you pre-trib Is I just don't care And to tell you the truth If the tribulation Was going on I think I want to be here So I can tell people About Jesus And they might be saved Like don't take me Off the field I want the shot It was funny We were playing basketball This week And I love to pass It's my favorite thing to do I got a ball Right there I mean Xavier I think he was here A little bit earlier Passed me the ball And I got it And I was getting I could have just easily Put it in But I passed back And the guy behind me On the other team He goes Oh he don't want it He don't want it And I'm like Shut up fool I want the assist I should have shot it I would have had I would have had Ten points I said eight But nonetheless Not that I'm keeping stats I want to be on the field I want to take this shot You know Problem with our team I got seven guys That want to take this shot And I can just run around And look at them I'm just a janitor On that team So it is It is the when of revelation We don't know When all these things Are going to happen It doesn't matter to me The timing doesn't matter I want to be prepared Stop worrying about Timing If he wanted you To know the timing He would say It doesn't matter You're going to get it wrong No one's going to know Satan himself Does it Let me just continue on And then we'll close up We saw that I said earlier There's seven churches There's sevens We'll talk about the sevens In another series The seven sevens Seven churches Seven letters Seven seals Seven bowls Seven trumpets Seven signs Seven years There's all these sevens There's I think I forgot the exact number But there's There's I think there's Eighty or ninety times I think the word Seven is used I'll have to get it Exactly I'll have it for you Next week Now let's move on Now because the sermon Is called the scroll I want to just look at This scroll in the last Five minutes Before we have our communion The thing that we see Is in the passage We go to Revelation 5 Look on your Little handout there We have the opening Of these seals And so basically There's this scroll When he's up there There's all of a sudden It directs his attention To this scroll And the scroll Is really interesting Because within the scroll Is all of this Foretelling Of the things That are going to happen But it says That there are seals On the scroll That we have These different seals I want to talk about that In just a second If you look in your notes It'll say scrolls Were often used For correspondence And were transitory In nature As opposed to a book Which were meant To be kept in libraries For long term So why don't you have The scroll of the book of life Because the book of life Is eternal Why don't we have The book of the judgments Why is it the scroll Of the judgments Because the scroll Was a message You send it as a message Often times It was like a letter It was like a postcard You're going to throw it away Because those Transitory nature And being written On a scroll Showed that it was transitory Now the next thing That was interesting Is you have the seals I went out to Michael's I just love Michael's I got to get my My Michael's on And I I was looking at the seals And until this week I always thought There was seven seals Like this This is a wax seal I got my little wax thing I think Here it is right here I got my little wax stamp And I went and got wax I made this last time How's he going to read What's in there Like what What I found out As I studied Is they would Send seven seals They would have one seal And once you break this seal You It tells you a little bit And then you move down And there's another seal Like this And so what it's meant to do If I were to send this I would say Well first I want you To take this To the guard at the gate And there's a message For the guard at the gate And so he can break The first seal And I would say The first seal was broken By the guard at the gate And then the next one It would say The entry to the governor's home They can break the second seal And so they would break The second seal I can't break too many seals Because I only got three seals I got next service But they would break this seal I'm not a seven seal guy I'm a three seal guy So The seals of La Jolla Stay away from them Another joke City council will be all over us If I keep touching any more seals Is because As you see in the nature Of it It's being told in stages These things are happening God is giving a little bit Of a tribulation He's giving a little bit Of a judgment If the whole world repented I think it would stop Now it's not going to Because he says it's not going to But they're breaking these seals And these scrolls Oh it broke anyway So there you go So then we have another one And it continues on like that So that is the transitory nature And why we're using scrolls As opposed to books And then how they're going to be Written out Now we see when this scroll It talks about the judgments to come And in Revelation 5-3 All of a sudden John starts crying He starts weeping It says But no one in heaven or on earth Or under the earth Could open the scroll Or even look Would not be judged You see If sin is not judged Evil will not end in the world And he began to perhaps Think of all of the wars All of the human abuse All of the human trafficking All of the sin of the world And if no one is worthy to read Then no one is worthy to judge And so I want to tell you You want sin judged You want the tribulation to come In the same way that the world right now Is crying The favorite thing they love to cry Justice Justice Justice All they want is justice Why?

Because they want sin They want sin punished They don't want sin atoned for Because there is no I'll tell you Please email me If you show me anybody That cries for justice In the secular world And says forgiveness is the way out Forgiveness is the way out And so you don't see that But you do see that here And so he's crying Because he realizes There's no Who can open it Sin needs to be judged Or this thing ain't gonna end We want this to end We want sin judged In Revelation then It says that the seals Were speak of a sequential nature Of the revelation to be revealed By the reading of the scroll And I've already said that And he had that sadness That no one was opened up Now let's do a practical takeaway And we're gonna finish And have a communion What's the practical takeaway One is All sin is under the judgment of God And must be judged For true freedom And salvation to come What does that have to do with you You need to repent Straight up repent Somebody emailed me this week Hey you did a whole series On the gospel You didn't talk about repentance I did I wove it in there But I knew where I was coming With this one If you have sin in your life You know what it is You should know what it is If you don't Ask Jesus to reveal it to you And we need to repent as a church Whatever it is And repent means to walk away from it It doesn't mean to say I'm sorry Because the only way that sin is overcome Is if the blood of Christ Washes over repented upon Sin that is repented for You see Jesus already died for all sin All sin is covered Whether you choose to be underneath that cover Is up to you Now let me just read this final scripture In Revelation 12 10 And as I heard a loud voice in heaven Saying now have come the salvation And the power And the kingdom of God And the authority of his Christ For the accuser of our brothers Has been thrown down He who accuses them day and night Before God And they have conquered him By the blood of the lamb And by the word of their testimony They didn't just believe it They said it And they did not love their lives So as to shy away from death You see that's what the church looks like That's what it should look like And it's really asked me this week I was asking myself the question How holy do you want to be?

Jesus offers you all complete holiness But we have to walk away from our sin And myself included And I'm sure many of us here Have gotten comfortable With certain sins in our life And we need to say no more Enough's enough I'm drawing a line in the sand Because I want to overcome The accuser of the brethren Through repentance And through the blood of Jesus Joe's going to lead us In that time right now As we take communion What a great day for communion As we do that He's going to get us our sins As we look at communion right now Let's go Thanks brother That was such a good balance Of grace and judgment And also humor That was really good So you should all have In front of you One of these communion cups With the bread And if you have trusted In Jesus for your salvation If you put your personal trust In him for salvation This meal is for you If you've not done that yet We'd ask you Not in a judgmental way But to refrain from that And talk to one of the pastors Or leaders afterwards Because this is a meal For his church For his body And I'm going to read From 1 Corinthians Chapter 11 It says For I receive from the Lord What I also pass on to you This is my body Which is for you Do this in remembrance of me So this bread If you take it out Take it all out together Hold it in our hand We are a corporate one It is a symbol Of Jesus' broken body In your place He took God's holy wrath In your place So if you put your personal trust In him You will not have to face God's wrath You will not have to face The revelation of God On you Because Jesus did it In your place If you have done this His body is broken for you And Christians Throughout all time Throughout all regions Do this As a visible Visible symbol To remember Jesus Let's eat his broken body together And in the same way After supper He took the cup If you want to take your cup And peel it open We have grape juice in there Which is a symbol Of Jesus' Shed blood So he says In the same way He took the cup Saying This cup Is the new covenant In my blood And you will not have to Drink it In the same way Whenever you eat this bread And drink this cup You proclaim The Lord's death Until he comes When we drink this together We're proclaiming His death His blood shed Until he comes Let's drink it together Now let me pray Oh gracious God Your ways are so high They're so wonderful Thank you for the The solid preaching Of your word About your revelation Help us be dressed And ready for service And we We participate In this broken body And this shed blood This symbol And remembrance of you And we thank you so much For your grace Help us walk In your grace In Jesus name Amen Amen Before you go I want to bless you Because I love doing that If you stand Let me bless you Thank you Joe And um If you extend your hands Let's do this thing The Lord says Whoever you bless I will bless And so Lord I just want to bless These people God With your grace Your provision And the desire To conquer their sin Through the shed blood Of Jesus That has already Conquered their sin Now the desire God To do the things To come out of the dark And speak to somebody To get accountability To say enough's enough And I want change In my life I want to have change And see the power of Jesus The authority And the power And all those things The blessings That come with that Lord we pray Now to be a change agent In the world In the name of the Father Son Holy Spirit Amen Hey have a great week Love you guys See you soon Friday night