Sermon Title: The Vision of the Judge
Sermon Text: Revelation 1:9-20
Sermon Purpose: To call the hearer to a new level of praise, purpose, and practice in light of the unveiling of the glorious Jesus Christ.
Sermon Proposition: John provides 7 visionary aspects of the Glorified Christ.
9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last," and, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." 12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. 19 Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches." Revelation 1:9-20 (NKJV)
The platform of the Judge. v.9
The platform of commonality. v.9a
The platform of companionship. v.9b
The platform of communication. v.9c
The proposal of the Judge. v.10-11
The presence of the Judge. v.12-13
The presence of the light in the Church. v.12 (Matthew 5:13-16)
The proclamation of the light in the Church. v.13
The personality of the Judge. v.14-16
The Son of Man's message v.13b
The Son of Man's majesty v.14a (Zechariah 3:4; 1 Samuel 24:5; Psalm 29:4)
The Son of Man's magnificence v.14b-15 (Daniel 7:9; 1 Timothy 3:16; Daniel 10:6; Jeremiah 25:30; John 5:28-29; Hebrews 4:12; Matthew 17:2; John 17:5)
The Preeminence of the Judge. v.17-18 (Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 43:1-2; John 10:10; 1 Peter 1:3-4; Romans 1:4; Hebrews 2:14-15; 2 Timothy 1:10)
The plan of the Judge. v.19
The vision of the glorified Christ. v.19a
The vision of the growing Church. v.19b
The vision of the guarantee consummation v.19c
The purpose of the Judge. v.20 (Ephesians 5:8; Philippians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:5