14/06/2020
Date: 14th June, 2020
TOPIC: JESUS ALONE IS WORTHY
TEXT: REVELATION 5:1-14
INTRODUCTION
The last time I spoke was on Revelation chapter four where John saw a big throne in heaven with a great being seated on the throne which is God himself. As John watched, in our passage today, he saw a scroll with seven seals in the right hand of the one seated on the throne. A scroll in the bible means a book. In John’s day books were written not on papers but on scrolls, because there were no papers. What they used in place of papers were pieces of papyrus or Vellum.
So what John is saying here is that, he saw God seated on the throne and in his right hand was a book. This book was sealed and in God’s right hand.
What was the book about? The book is about God’s future plan for the earth and humanity. What is going to happen in future. God is the one that made the earth and everything therein. He has his plan on how the earth will run, and when it will end.
Let me tell you, Satan also has his counterfeit future plan for this earth, and man also has his own plan. You hear people talking about plans for fifty or hundred years to come. Yes it is good to plan, but human plans and Satan’s plan cannot overrule God’s plan. Hear what the bible says about human plans:
“Why are the nations angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans?” (Psalm 2:1)
“The lord frustrates the plans of the nations, and thwarts all their schemes “ (Psalm 33:10)
“What sorrow awaits my rebellious children “ says the lord. You make plans that are contrary to mine. You make alliances not directed by my Spirit, thus pilling up sins.” (Isaiah 30:1)
So in Heaven they were looking for someone who can take the book of the future plan from the right hand of God and open it so that we can know what the future holds, but nobody was found in heaven, on earth and even beneath the earth qualified to do that. So John started weeping because he was standing there as human being and what is written in the book is about the future of humans; and if there’s no one qualified to open the book, man will not know what will happened to him. But one of the Twelve Elders gave John the good news that there is only one person who is WORTHY to open the book of future events and that person is Jesus Christ
Remember because of his humility and obedience to the father, God placed him high above everyone else in heaven and on earth and so gave him a name that is above every other name:
“Therefore God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the father “ (Phil. 2:9-11)
But why is Jesus qualified or WORTHY to take the scroll and open the seals and not any one else? Because:
1. Though he lived on earth, he never committed any sin. He lived in perfect obedience to the father
2. He alone died for the sins of the world
3. He alone rose from the dead
4. Only Chris alone conquered sin, death, hell and Satan
himself
Only Jesus can be trusted with the world’s future. Nobody should deceive you about what is going to happen in years to come because government knows, the UN doesn’t know, World Health organization (WHO) doesn’t know, scientists of this world do not know what is going to happen tomorrow.
Because all of them have no idea how the world was created, so who gives them the audacity to tell us what will happen with the world tomorrow.
Jesus alone is WORTHY to tell us what will happen in the future. Follow me next week to hear what Jesus told John about what will happen to this world.
God bless you!
