HIS-tory, Part 13: Means and End (Revelation)


Summary: 

Many people read Revelation as a scary, imaginative, and heavily symbolic description of the end times.  While this is not entirely inaccurate, we miss the even more significant description of the Story of God that takes place here - the gospel outside of time.  Revelation is not fundamentally a description of end times, but rather of the purpose and centerpiece of history: it is a revelation of Jesus, the hero of the story.  We see the final state: we don't worship Jesus in order to achieve some other pleasure; worshipping Jesus is the ultimate pleasure in and of itself!  

Sermon Notes: 


I. Means to an End?

II. Pastor John on the Island Patmos 

III. The Story of Revelation:

  1. A Letter to churches who are just like us.

  2. The Ceremony of the Scroll

  3. The Reading of the Scroll 

  4. Worthy is the Lamb Who Was Slain

Rev. Mike WrightComment