Messages Posted in August 2018

Revelation #31. Revelation 14:6-13

Hell, and the Love of God

Series: Revelation

Scripture Text: Revelation 14:6-13

If God is infinitely good, infinitely glorious, then to sin against him is infinitely evil. And to say that a loving God would never send anyone to eternal punishment is to say that God himself is not eternally valuable. But even more than that, the Christian doctrine of hell shows us the extravagant extent of God’s love for us: Jesus suffered unimaginably in hell, for our sake.

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Revelation #30. Revelation 14:1-5

The Reality of Spiritual Victory

Series: Revelation

Scripture Text: Revelation 14:1-5

This whole section of Revelation is about the underlying spiritual reality that is affecting the events of our physical lives. It is here to remind the first readers, and us, that the things that we experience every day are also part of an underlying spiritual reality that we cannot see, but is nonetheless very real. In that Spiritual Reality, we are already holy and blameless (Ephesians 1:6); alr

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Revelation #29: 666 - THE NUMBER OF LIES, PEER PRESSURE AND THE SELF

Series: Revelation

Scripture Text: Revelation 13:11-18

Whatever we see as the Supreme Good, unless it is God, is an idol; even if it is our own well-being. Pressure to conform to the culture, enticement to idols, false teaching – all these are the work of the second beast. They aren’t neutral, they aren’t just about fitting in. They are part of the cosmic spiritual battle between the Dragon and those who hold to the testimony of Jesus. The stake

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