Parkerville Baptist Church
Pastor Jason Brooks continues our series of sermons, titled "Family Ties", looking at our connections to each other, as a church family in Christ and to God as His children, this time through Revelation 7:9-17.
Jason says "This amazing passage is a picture of the family of God in all its glory before the throne of Jesus."
Revelation 7:9-17 NIV
The book of Revelation shows us many things.
Often people look at it as a blueprint for the future and how the world will end!!
We should not be neglectful to the things it can teach us now and the beautiful imagery it has of Jesus Christ and His Church which echoes back to our present time.
The symbolism of this passage has beauty in showing the angels, creatures and the people of God clothed in white, washed in the blood of the Lamb, worshiping at the throne of God.
We might feel there is a stark contrast to what we see in this passage and what we see on a Sunday morning - the people of God dressed in white from all tribes and tongues worshipping at the throne of God - in comparison to the weary individuals that turn up on a Sunday morning!!
However, it is important to see the beauty of the people of God, a people that is joined by a unifying purpose: Jesus Christ. A people that is joined together in love. A people that serves and cares for one another, a people that prays for each other and serves one another.
