#Brave church book series

I've been a Christian for 30 years, I've been studying the book over the past year. 'I don't want to hear about all this end time stuff.' So I think it's really important that we understand why would we do this? Why do we want to spend time doing this? I want to let you know that when it comes to preaching from this platform that I spend a lot of time seeking the Lord as to what he wants me to teach, and teaching the book of Revelation for me was something the Lord put on my heart over a year ago. 'I want to grow up and get married, 'I want to have a family. Other people just say, 'Let me live, I'm young. I mean, there's a lot of talk about what's gonna happen at the end with God's holiness and his justice, and what he's going to do to people that don't believe him, and so they're scared to death. So why would we study this? Other people think it's scary. Even when it comes to our understanding of women in ministry, or the fullness of charismatic gifts, the book of Revelation, sometimes people have an understanding of what it is, and if you don't agree with their exact understanding, you know, you're a heretic. Like how do you really know what all this imagery means, and can anybody even get it right? Other people don't want to study it because they say it causes disunity in the church, because everybody has a different opinion, and there's no way we're ever going to know anyway, it's all just gonna pan out in the end, so why take the time to study this book? I would tell you this, the book of Revelation in studying it sometimes is the most, or one of the most divisive things that we can study in the church. 'I mean, I'm just an ordinary person, there's no way.' Others don't want to study it because it's confusing. 'I've heard it taught over and over, 'and I kind of have an idea what it means, 'but if you ask me personally to defend what I believe, 'there's no way I could do it. For some people, they're not very excited about it because they say, 'You need like five PhDs to understand it.

But the question that we must ask ourselves is why teach Revelation? Why spend time on this book? It's an important question for us to answer because when I say I'm gonna teach the book of revelation, it engenders a response from everybody in a different kind of way. We started in the beginning, we're taking a look at the end. Today, we begin to take a look at the end. And many of the major doctrines that we believe come out of the first 11 chapters in the book of Genesis.

We began in the book of Genesis, and took a look at the first 11 chapters, and talked about why it was so important to understand those first 11 chapters in the book of Genesis, and how it set the foundation for God being the creator, and all that he established.

#Brave church book series

And that has been part of our series called The Alpha and Omega series. Well this morning we're gonna start the book of Revelation. And now for all God's people who are listening, who desire to hear what God says, and believe what he says, and receive what he says, and by faith put into practice what he shows you, will you very loudly this morning agree with me by saying the word, amen. Lord, we believe you have a word for us today.

Lord, we believe every time your word is open, because your word is living an active, because your word is true, because your word will never fade away, that every time we're faithful and proclaiming the word, you speak directly to us. Be helpful to me as I teach, be helpful to us as we receive, and Lord help us to do what you would require of us. Lord, as we open your word, we believe that you have a word for us, and so Lord speak to us today. Lord Jesus, we give you all the glory, honor, and praise for who you are.