If not, I'm going to ask you to take a scripture reading today from the book of Revelation, chapter 5. And often I'll read the whole verse and then begin to preach on it, but today I want to do something just a little different. I kind of want to walk through the text this morning. State up front kind of what the objective of my heart is at least. I feel inclined. I don't guess till the last few years I recognized how central to the Christian life worship is meant to be. I don't think worship is an afterthought. I don't think it's something on equal par with other Christian duties that we have, but I think central to our lives is meant to be the worship of Christ. So certainly we want to learn about the Lord and we want to fellowship with our, we want to do good deeds to our fellow man. But more and more I'm becoming convinced that worship is the aim. I think a Lifeblood of worship is understanding who Christ is and what he did. Because then it's not compulsory. In other words, I could likely, and I have, I'm sure many others who have stood behind here have, sensed perhaps a lack of gratitude in their own heart or in the hearts of the collective. and felt some guilt that we're not praising the Lord enough and we're not showing thankfulness enough. So we can turn through the scriptures and look at all the commands that the Bible says are meant to compel us to worship. But I've come to learn over time with myself that prodding is the least valuable means to provoke worship. Rather, I think understanding is what provokes worship. You remember, was it the psalmist or the proverb that says, when you get wisdom and all you're getting, get understanding? And so in my mind, there's knowledge, which is just the information. There's wisdom, the application of that information. But understanding is the why behind it all. It's being able to place it within a, broader purpose and understanding the uniqueness of it in its application. And to me, with the person of Christ, the more I understand about what he did and who he was and what he accomplished for us, the more I find my heart gravitating towards worshiping him. And it's far from compulsory, it's voluntary, but it's more than voluntary, it's eager. I want to worship him the more I understand what he's done and who he is. And so today, a desire of my heart is to, hopefully with the Lord's help, show you more of what Christ has done and that that will lead you to worship him with more intensity. Because we're reading some sacred scriptures today that, it's funny because as I read a chapter like this, it feels like I'm reading a story, like a book or watching a movie of events that are unfolding, and I have to pause and remind myself that this is a future event where I will be. So when it says, they all bowed down and worshiped him, the they is me and you. We read ourselves into this is what we're going to do. And so I wanna walk through this, and the title of our message this morning is gonna come from a couple places in the text that you'll notice, especially later on, but it is Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the Lamb. Revelation chapter five, I think we'll read the first three or four verses here. It says this. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven nor on earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. Many things I'm not going to pretend in this text as we go through it to understand. There are some strange figures and pictures and wouldn't try to get up here and proclaim otherwise. But there are some things in here I do think we can understand that I want to try to elaborate on this morning. Such a visual chapter. Descriptive words. John the Revelator has this vision And I think, I know that God reveals things to us in a way that we can understand it. And so here he is seeing this great throne that throughout the book of Revelation we find is present. Now obviously, a throne is meant to depict authority and power, and as the scriptures all through Revelation talk about God sitting upon his throne, we can know, based upon the two primary individuals that are going on in this text, that in some capacity, the father is sitting upon his throne, and he has this book. And it makes very clear that this book is in his right hand and that it is sealed shut. Now, this book, as we read through the text, it definitively relates to, whatever it may be, it definitively relates to the fate of mankind. We can know that for sure. Because as later on in the text, things happen with the book and the person who has the power to open the book and the benefits of those that benefit from the opening of the book, we know that it has to do with our fate as a group of mankind. Many, and I agree with this, think that this is talking about the book that leads to our eternal condemnation. So if we were to go to the book of Daniel chapter seven, we would find that there's a book of our sins and Daniel has this vision that's very similar to portions of this where he has this vision and God has a book and in that book is a book of our sins whereby he takes the nations of the earth and he calls them before them and he judges the nations of the earth based upon his book. We could go to Revelation chapter 20 in the great white throne judgment, the Bible says that there will be where every nation and every tribe and every individual after Satan has been punished and cast into the lake of fire, that all of us will stand before God and give an account and the visual that he gives there is that God will open the books and judge all of mankind out of His books. Now whether the books are some symbolic way of helping us understand that there is a standard by which we will be judged, by which our sins and our activities are documented, whether they're actually documented or not means very little. It's that God is going to hold us accountable for sin. That's what matters. And lost friend today, of all the chilling truths through the whole Bible, perhaps even more than hell itself, the thought that God will hold mankind accountable for sin is the most chilling truth to my mind that could be known. Nobody gets away with anything, even the most subtle, sinful thought that nobody reveals to anybody else. God will call us to give an account for that. Salvation has been provided for the day of judgment that you and I can be saved from the moment of God's judgment. This book. seems to imply was in a, like a evidence, or perhaps even farther than just evidence, maybe the actual warrant or the sentence for mankind. And it was sealed. In other words, when I had to sit on a jury, the whole process of, and I was the head juror by chance, there was nothing special about it whatsoever. Head juror, and you have to have the document, and everything is done very specifically, very carefully, and given to the judge, and the judge is very public about not messing with anything, and that things are done properly, clearly, Securely. And here this book is in the most, the single most secure place in all of existence. It's in the right hand of God. If we were worried about security, it has seven seals. Usually the Bible in number seven reads completeness, right? So it's completely sealed. It indicates that this is the war, the sentencing, the judgment that is forthcoming to mankind is sealed. And so here, they begin to look through Heaven just like you and I would if we knew that there was a punishment that was forthcoming and we were wanting to avoid the judgment that was certainly coming upon us. We would seek to find a remedy or an escape or one who had more authority than the judge to override the ruling. And so we find in our country today that you can go and you can stand before a judge and they can declare you guilty of something, but in our court, we recognize the fallibility of human beings. And so we say, you have the right to appeal this process to a higher court and a higher authority that the judgment which has been settled upon you might somehow be nullified and you can escape the just penalty that you deserve. And so here there's this vision that John has that is a picture of our forthcoming condemnation. We are going to be judged. And it is settled and final and the hands of omnipotent itself clings to that book. And so they begin to frantically look for someone who could loose the seals, settle the debt for our sins. And so they begin this scrambling. And you know, people today are still scrambling for that very thing. Looking for an escape to what I believe to be the self-evident forthcoming judgment that all mankind faces. It's just my opinion. I think it's supported by the scriptures that within every man and woman, God has placed this metaphysical part of us. We couldn't cut you open and touch it. But it's this part of us that tells us what we're doing is sinful. You don't have to be raised a Christian. You don't have to ever heard about Jesus or the Bible. You don't have to be taught right and wrong by your parents. You could've been an orphan. But there's still this, when we do something, in violation of God's eternal law that he has written upon our hearts. Romans chapter 2 tells us this in verse 13 and 14, that God has written upon the heart of every man and woman a law. And our conscience testifies to us when we break that law. And when we're children and when we're supported, when we have tender hearts and when we're young, that law often or that conscience often shouts loudly to our hearts in condemnation, revealing to us the sin that we have committed. Listen this morning, if you're lost, that is the greatest blessing is a tender conscience that whenever it begins to shout at you that you have broken God's law and that the secret sins that you keep to yourself and the lies that you tell and the things that you do that nobody knows about and that voice within you begins to cry at you and say, that's wrong. And the guilt you begin to feel and the tendency to go Try to find a distraction and try not to think about how bad of things you've done or to cover it up with good deeds. That's a common one today, isn't it? That people do things in the privacy of their heart and to cover it up, they do these token deeds that in their minds equal out the balance. And yet the same thing that was said to Belshazzar in Daniel chapter five, one day is going to be said to anybody who does not have their account settled by the Lord. You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. And you can, it's like one sin, listen to me this morning, one sin that you and I commit is like the largest boulder that has ever been on one side. And every good deed that we perform throughout our lives and the thousand lifetimes that we can live are just like a feather on the other side. And so all the good deeds in the world can never outweigh just the one transgression that we could commit against a holy God. And yet we don't stop at one boulder. If the universe and all the planets and stars could be counted, I don't think that they would necessarily count for the sins of all of mankind that has been committed. People are found wanting. Yeah, that's where the preaching of the gospel is so vital. Because as every human being experiences this, They don't understand it. What a blessing it is. What an incredible blessing it is that we're here today. What an incredible blessing it is that we have people whom God has surrounded us with throughout our life to make sense of the human experience. that because God has revealed his word and it's inspired and it's perfect and it's exhaustive, that's the other part that's often missed today. It's exhaustive. Everything the human being experiences, there is revelation about how to respond for it right here. And so we can go to the peaks of success and we can go to the valleys of suffering as deep and as high as they go. And the Bible gives us a revelation about how that we are to understand and comprehend and respond in this life, do all of these things. And then God has called out men into the world to proclaim and to teach and his gifted people and he set up a church full and dispensed gift to them and led them to specific congregations that he might fill in the needs, the voids of the human heart that are within our local collective that we can understand how to live in this life, how to comprehend the spiritual movements of the soul and God working upon us. Praise God that we're surrounded by people who can help us understand that divine touch that God gives to us that we can't comprehend without someone showing it to us. Thankful today for you. Thankful for those men and women who have taught me my whole life what these impressions within are, what they mean. God does that for us. That conscience, that guilt and condemnation set up in the soul. A, it's not a figment of your imagination, it's real. It's not a product of human manipulation. It's a product of the Lord. Working upon the soul to reveal not something natural and observable about you, but something spiritual that is forthcoming. that is the judgment to come. And it's like all at one moment, John was able to wrap together everybody's fate and God showed him that there is no hope in and of ourselves. Have you ever noticed a tendency, particularly in the American culture since we live in it, I'm sure it's been present throughout all cultures, to resurrect saviors, Like, we're so desperate to have someone better than ourselves that can solve our problems. So we could go political. And listen, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, Trump is not a savior, no more than Joe Biden was, no more than Barack Obama was, no more than any president that's ever lived. And let me tell you something, all the future, unless God saves this nation, there is no hope. because salvation is not found in men, period. It is God that restrains war. It's God that causes the hearts of men and influences them one way or the other. And God can do whatever he wants. That's why the book of Romans tells us to pray for our leaders. and your prayer should not be more weighty today than they were two months ago, or any less so, because the nations fall within the balance of God himself, and men are so desirous that somebody with greater wisdom, somebody with greater power, somebody with some quality greater than us, but listen to me today, every human being is saddled with the same sinful tendency that prevents them from being a sufficient savior. They're limited in their knowledge. They're corruptible in their heart. They don't know the future. And they don't have the power to do anything without the grace of God himself. Yet men crave a savior, somebody give me a doctor. I need a savior to my body. Salvation is not found in any man. And yet in verse four, I believe verse three, all this seeking for a Savior. And they came to this conclusion. Lost friend, it's the same conclusion I hope you come to today. There's salvation in nothing in this world. I'm gonna try to thread the needle here, so know it's a needle that I'm trying to thread. I misspeak, please be gracious. your prayer is not the savior to your soul. Seems like at times, sitting in church, there's been this projection that if you're not doing this exact right formula of prayer, you're not gonna get it. Well, if it was your prayers that saved you in the first place, you would be your savior, but you're not. And certainly there are attitudes of the heart that God rewards with salvation. But those attitudes of the heart are not derivatives of your own strength and wisdom. It's because the grace of God intervenes in the heart that recognizes their inability to save themselves. And when he sees the helplessness, when he sees the brokenness that satisfies him, When he sees the repentant of heart and the faith in the object of his salvation, which is his son, all of those things often happen instantaneously and incomprehensible to the person even doing it. When I got saved, here were the thoughts of my heart. I really wanna be saved, I really wanna be saved. That was all that was going on. All the theology of scriptures and all the sermons that I had heard were suddenly out the window. None of those things mattered in so much as applying their truth some static way, saying, well, now I've done what Brother Foster said, and now I've done what our evangelist said, and now I did what that sister said when she testified. All of that is completely, Out of the mind and heart of the person, it is just you before God, knowing your need of him. Those that come to God must believe that he is, and that he's a rewarder. Notice, it's you and him. That's it. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him when he is near. You and the Lord, that's it. And there's this lack of awareness. You hear a lot of people testify. We've heard people testify here, haven't we? They're seeking the Lord. And all of a sudden they say, there comes a point where, you know, I think back and I don't even remember people being here. I don't remember what was going on around me. Now, for me, that was uncommon when I would seek the Lord, because I was a 10 year old boy who was aware of all my surroundings and every song that was sung and every cough that was had. And I'd peek out from under my arm to see what was going on in the world. So I was hyper focused and hyper aware of anything. But there did come a point where it was me and God. That was it. See here, you are not your savior. Your sufficiency in prayer is not your savior. They sought through heaven and earth. I don't even know what it means to seek under the earth. Do you? I guess that's angelic. Maybe it's just hyperbole. Likely it's just hyperbole, just exaggerating to prove the point. Maybe there's an angel that can help. He says, I couldn't find anybody. So then it has the result. John says, I just sat down and I wept, for no one was found worthy to save me. You know, there's movies where you can watch this. The one that comes to mind immediately is the movie, The Titanic. Many of you have probably seen that. And they start setting out how to get off the boat, And supposedly, this part of it is based on history. I've not gotten deep into reading it, but there comes a point where some people on board recognize there's no hope. And they were musicians. So they just gave up hope. So they just sat there and everybody else was running around them, seeking salvation, seeking help of their own strength or of a lifeboat or of somebody else. They're looking to get help. And these men finally said, I wanna face this with courage the last minutes of my life and try to bring some peace to this place. And supposedly they started playing near my God to thee. It's kinda how I imagine John here in verse four. He just gives up. I think part of the reason you'd give up is because you'd recognize how, who is gonna go to the hands of God and take something out of his hand? Who has the power to do that? Who has the power to live a perfect life? Who? The best men and women that have ever been. None of them are worthy to stand before God. Now usually when we think of being worthy, we think of worthy of a privilege, but here's where it's so, here's where the worthiness of this is so strange. Okay? Jesus' worthiness was not in regards to his exaltation. He was already worthy of that here. His worthiness was in regards to his abasement. Who is worthy to die for sin? Consider it like this. So we know in the scriptures, he was made to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So there's an exchange that takes place, right? That he, we took, I took, God took my sin and he put it on Jesus. And then Jesus was punished because of my sin. Fair enough. But let's say in a court of law, let's say they permitted that. in an American court of law, and I had committed a heinous crime, and I was sentenced to death, or 30 years, we'll just, we'll give a timeframe of it. 30 years I was sentenced to go to prison. And Brian stands up and he says, I'll take his place. And the court permits it, that he's my substitute. And so Brian is now sitting in prison for 30 years, but in the midst of all that, Brother Ron commits a crime. And he's sentenced to 30 years. And so, again, Brother Brian being the virtuous person, he just stands up and he says, you know what, I'll take Ron's place. And so now he's gonna spend 60 years in prison. And then Brother Danny sends. 30 years. And the judge says, oh, Brian, it's very unlikely you're gonna live 90 years. I can't let you take the place of Danny. because you're not actually paying the cost for what Danny did. If you die after 60 years, you have paid Brad's price and you have paid Ron's price. But then we're just letting Danny off free. And if we do that, we might as well pile everybody's crimes on you and let you suffer for everybody. But the reality is, one life's value only equates to suffering for one person. And so, let's just say that a man was born and lived a perfect life, but he was a man. And he got to the end, and he said, I wanna die for the sins of someone else. And all God could have done is put one person's sin on that man. That's it. And this is where Jesus is different than everybody else. Because Jesus is not only man, but he's God. And God's value is infinite. So when Man dies, we're finite, we're created by him, sustained by him. God is eternal, not just forward, backwards. God in the human mind has lived trillions of lifetimes, but not even given the amount of time that he lived, his intrinsic worth is far greater than our intrinsic worth. And the only reason we have worth is because we're made in His image. And so part of these people, as they're seeking for a substitute, not only are they looking for somebody sinless, but they're looking for someone who has the value of the whole population of the world, both then and throughout all of time. And when John pauses to consider who could be worthy of that, it's a non-starter. Why even search around the world? Because we're all of the same value in nature. And he just gives up and weeps. What is he weeping about? The certainty of judgment. You have to bear with me this morning, there's just something I gotta say. We ought to weep for the perceivable certainty of some people's judgment, you know that? Like those that are living in darkness. What compels the missionary heart? It's that. All down through time, that is the driving motivation. It's not glory, it's not adventure, but truly let of God what you'll find a common denominator in those men and women that go out in all the uncertainty of the mission field. It is that there are men and women in darkness, and when I go to bed at night, I cannot rest with my security if I know they're in jeopardy. How can I live knowing this message and knowing this truth and having this eternal security? And when I begin to contemplate the billions of people throughout the world that are going to bed, unable to comprehend the burdens and the sin in their heart and what to do about it, and groping for a savior in the darkness, I cannot stay here without going and trying to find them. I've gotta tell them. because they're, like John was, without hope. You know, that's one thing today, oh man, it just tears me up. People without hope. And that's some of the saddest people that you'll ever meet in your life, is people without, like, I'm not just talking about hopeless in one little vein of their life. I mean that over and over and over, they're just in such a, that they just have no hope anymore. That's where John was. And then verse 5 happens. Of all the despair that the Bible portrays about sin, and about prejudice, about hell, Aren't you thankful this morning that the weight of the gospel outweighs all of it? Aren't you thankful that, you know, I used to look at people. when I was younger and I'd see and I'd listen to their story, and they'd tell this complex web, and man, I've told you before, life is so complicated and people's hearts are so complicated. If you really sit and listen to some people's stories, and sometimes it may take five or six hours to really listen to a person's story of their life and what happened and all the things, and you can get to the end of that as a human being with a limited vantage point and think, there's just no hope for them. I mean, it started before they were even cognizant of the world. Their suffering started. And now their body is riddled with pains because when they were a child, they were neglected and abused. And now all of the mental and emotional turbulence that they've experienced throughout life and trauma has just messed them up. And when we go to the scriptures and we learn about the judgment of sin and how awful it is, and we can pair these two things together and we can look through our limited vantage point and just see situations and say, there's just no hope. But listen to me, what John saw up to verse four was far worse than any situation or all of those put together. But a voice cried out in his sorrow, weep not. You know, given the situation, sometimes you go to a hospital, you've probably experienced this before, sometimes worse than sorrow is false hope. I don't, tell it to me straight. Don't tell me of all the possibilities which in your mind you know serve a 1% chance of helping me, but as you're telling it to me, you're making it sound like there's a good probability I'm getting out of this okay. Don't give me false hope, because the pain of destruction after false hope is far more painful than if I was just told from the beginning that there is no hope. So the man cries out. The angelic being, the messenger from God, cries out, weep not. For the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed. Hath prevailed to do what? Oh, that's the beautiful part. Look at verse 7. And he came, speaking of the Lamb, and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. Here's how I imagine what it'll be like. Some, even in this chapter, will verify this, and some of it's just beyond our understanding. I imagine when we stand before God and our resurrected bodies We'll have two legs like this. I don't think we're going to use them a lot. We're going to be bowed. We're going to be bowed. Humble adoration of His Majesty and His power. You ever seen in a courtroom, maybe on TV, that when a, when a, what is it called, a plaintiff, whenever the accused begins to kind of disrespect the judge. You know, I still feel like I'm in the third grade, like I'm getting in trouble or somebody in class is getting in trouble. It makes me scared when I see that. Especially if the judge is fair and equitable and forceful. He begins to call them in contempt of court and add to his sentence and do all these things. And that's just within human beings. This is God here. And not only does one stand up and begin to speak, they actually approach the throne. Who's worthy to do that? You know, even an attorney, when they get called to go, they have to be called to come to the judge. They have to say, approach the bench. And then they have permission. Or if they don't, the judge doesn't solicit it, the attorney can say, may I have permission to approach the bench? Because your authority is so great and mine is not. I don't have a right to assert myself even before your authority. But this man in verse seven, where everybody else was not found worthy, this man rises up and he heads straight for the throne of God. And not only does he head there to speak, he actually leans over and takes the book from God's hand. And do you know what he does with it? He alters it. He changes it. He changes the sentence. How can he do that? Well, because as it depicts, I don't have time to keep reading through it because it says twice in the text that as they saw the lamb, it was as though it had been slain. You see, what that man was, was he was God in the flesh who had come and tabernacled among men, that the Father had given him all the laws, the 613 of the Jews, all of the moral laws written upon the heart. He had come and he had given him a specific mission, and every jot and tittle of the law, Jesus kept, and every act that God had given him to perform, Jesus had committed it with the right heart and right intent. even as much as going to the cross. And as they wait, will Jesus, if he dies, will it be able to cover the sins of all of men? Or is there only just an elect? Does not the messenger proclaim throughout all the Bible, whosoever will come, take of the water of life freely, God died for all. Because his value is greater than all. And there Jesus was. And you know what the Bible says, I believe it's John chapter 10, that because of the worthiness of the Lamb, God did not just allow him to take our sins upon him. God did not just allow him to alter our future state because he suffered for us. But the father said, you are so worthy, I am committing all judgment into your hand. So the father doesn't have the book anymore, the son does. And it's a book of our sins, true. But there's a second book that he keeps with it, and they're always together. And he says, listen, it's still true that your sins are written in this book. And you add to it every single day until the day you breathe your last breath. But if your name, not your righteousness, just your name is written in what book? The Lamb's book. If your name is written in the Lamb's book, it nullifies everything in the other book. So you know what verses 8 through 14 they start doing? In our home, Judson will start picking on the little two sometimes, playfully. And he can handle them right now. He's big enough, and he'll start beating on them. They don't think he's big enough. So they fight it. And they try to. But when dad's dick gets up, it's evident the game's changed. Because I'm on their team. And now you put the three of us together, and sorry Judson, you don't stand a chance. Here's what I mean by that. You don't have to sit and wonder how this is going to turn out. Immediately you know. You know what happens here? They're in deep despair. The voice cries out, weep not. There's one who has prevailed. Immediately John knows. We won. It's okay. I was weeping because I knew I was gonna be separated from God forever. And now I know because Christ, Jesus, that man, who by the way, John knew. He knew him. Remember in 1 John when he says, that which I've handled and I have touched and I have heard. Listen, he knew of the righteousness of Jesus. He knew of the sinlessness of Jesus. Listen, he knew that Jesus died because of all the apostles fled. There John was watching it happen. He ran to the tomb. John knew immediately when you said that Jesus has prevailed, We won. And so immediately, here's what happens in heaven. Everyone begins to worship. Everyone. I remember being in the lunchroom one day at work. A kid started choking. You know, that can be tricky. You can do so many things to try to dislodge it, but Sometimes things can get stuck in there so well. And I remember it was just getting past the point where not having oxygen was starting to, his body was starting to kind of go limp. And somebody set his body down to go get somebody. And one of his friends grabbed him. And it just, it wasn't luck. The Lord, and just out it popped. There was such relief, immediate relief. And immediately, without thought, you know what everybody started doing to the kid who had dislodged it? I mean, people were crying. The newspaper came down and wrote about it. It was covered on the news because such an act instigated of somebody's own free will. It's another part of it, right? The lamb, unlike the lambs in the Passover, even lambs that were qualified didn't volunteer for the job. But our lamb, he volunteered to go, to die. And the natural reaction of these people. Listen to what it says in verse 9 and verse 12, then I'm done. They sung a new song. Yeah, they did. They sung a new song. Don't you look forward to that melody coming off of your lips one day? I can't wait to know what it is. I don't care if it's in Hebrew, if it's in an angelic language, I believe it will be the sweetest song to ever come off of my lips, is the new song. You know, in heaven, one of the great things is that we'll know things that we don't know here. And I think one of the greatest things that we'll know is the gravity of the reality which we lived while we were on earth. The gravity of eternal things is hidden from our eyes because our finite minds can't comprehend it. But in heaven, when you recognize perhaps God will show you so that you'll exalt him even more, the time unbeknownst to you where your life was almost lost and God saved you. They send a new song saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof, for thou was slain and hath redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation, verse 12, saying with a loud voice, this is all the people, 10,000 times 10,000s of people, I'm in that number. Worthy is the land that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven. Aren't you glad that I'm gonna join with the angels? Every single creature. There's not going to be somebody tending. We come into the minister school sometimes, and most everybody is paying attention. But we got deacons here. We got members here that are kind of running to and fro, doing different things that need to be done to carry it out. Listen, in heaven, every single creature is going to cry out, worthy is the Lamb. You know, this is just, this is what I want, OK? This is what I want. Maybe I want something different later. I want us to cry it out first in our own languages. You know why? Because I want to hear all the nations and languages and people that are there. I want to stand hand in hand with people from centuries and millennia ago who knew nothing of the world that we live in and I know nothing of the world they live in. Languages that have gone extinct. 10,000 of languages. I want to clasp hands and all recite with the same voice, worthy is the Lamb. You know, through the Spirit, you get in a... Brother Justin showed us some video the other night of them singing songs we all recognize. I think that's the way it's going to be. And Justin said at one point, he said, you know, me and Matthew were singing in English what they were singing in Spanish. Imagine 10,000 languages worthy. And then we all come in one perfect harmony. the language of heaven, whatever that is, and we just cry out. And as we're crying it out, the magnitude of who Christ is and what He's done, with every chant to His worthiness, the magnitude of what has occurred rushes over us more and more so that the intensity of our crying is not diminished with the passage of time. It is only increased because every moment we're there, we're recognizing no one is like you. Praise God. I can cry out that he's worthy here. And that's what I want to do. It's got to be central to you and to me. Forget all the things that the Christians ought to do and things they ought to be and check marks they ought to have. Get in a state of worship. And somehow those things seem to take care of themselves. This morning, I'm thankful. Both then and now, worthy is the lamb that was slain.