Sermon
Revelation 22: The Time is Near!
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
May 1, 2023 · 54 min
Spiritual WarfareGod's SovereigntyDiscipleshipEnd Times / EschatologyRevelation 22:6–16Revelation 22:14–172 Peter 3:8–13
Summary
Revelation 22 concludes John's apocalypse with repeated warnings and invitations: believers must wash their robes in Christ's blood, reject worldly idols of comfort and power, wage spiritual warfare through the gospel, and live in expectation of Christ's imminent return. The sermon emphasizes that Revelation is a practical picture book for all church ages, not a puzzle about the future.
Highlights
Revelation is not a puzzle book that helps us decode secret messages. It is a picture book that paints a very clear picture that we're meant to pay attention to.
Don't equate political power with righteousness or Christianity. We have nothing to fear, Christians. We are not afraid.
Let this book read you. Don't just read it. Let it point out to you areas in your soul where you don't like what God has to say to you. Let this book change you. Don't change it.