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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Revelation
Posted in God Things
Our church has a ministry that targets the deeper teaching of the Bible, the kind you might not teach on a "friendly" Sunday morning. I am in complete agreement, actually, with their choice to offer these things once a month at a separate time from the normal services. There's good reason for it.
Anyway, last night the teaching was on the book of Revelation. Friends, this poor man who wrote a very heavy book (in more ways than one) on Revelation was put to the task of encapsulating the teaching in under two hours, allowing for questions at the end. Wow! (Boy, am I glad I don't have to teach these things.) :')
There was so much packed into this survey of the book I couldn't begin to share even the highlights. It was just an immense amount to try to unpack, and I'll be unpacking it for quite some time. I was blessed to go, but I have to share something. Revelation is quite the book, you know! If someone read it, attentively and with good instruction, that individual's life would have to be markedly different!
The one thing my mind kept turning over and over last night and this morning was a point that was mentioned more than once: never underestimate the power of sin.
Never underestimate the power of sin. (I could park on that for some time.)
It's not that sin is more powerful than our God. Our God is absolutely and infinitely more powerful! Clearly, the battle is done and has been won. We are free from sin. Yet, we are free to the degree we will choose flee from it. Those who succumb to it, or those who choose to live in it, will have a very different experience. Sin starts so harmlessly. Where it goes is so ugly, and I think most of us would wonder just how things got so warped, twisted, and evil (in our lives and in the lives of those we know or observe).
I honestly had a terrible time imagining the events of Revelation in the end. There will be millions, I imagine, who will reject the loving God who desires that none should perish. They will love and worship the very one who seeks to kill and destroy them. How very sad.
With this in mind, how must my life be different as I interact with the people around me?
"Things that make you go, 'Hmmmmmm.'" ~ Arsenio Hall
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