In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing.
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… because Jesus' salvation, you see, was everything. So all the elders fall down and they say, worthy is the lamb who was slain. Let him receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. Isn't that what a crown represents, all those things? The crowns, all those things, she says, they don't belong to us. They belong to you. Because real power and real wealth and real wisdom and real might and real honor and real glory and blessing and righteousness and goodness, they all came as gifts from you in grace. The reason I'm here, Jesus, they're all saying, I'm not here because of my goodness. I'm here because of your grace. I'm not here because I had the wisdom or the righteousness or the power or the goodness to seek you. I'm here because you sought me. I would never have sought you had you not sought me first. You gave me understanding when I was foolish. You gave me sight when I was blind. You gave me righteousness when I was sinful. You gave me strength when I was weak. You are my righteousness, my hope, my sight, my peace, my strength, my goodness. You're all of it. All these things belong to you. The only thing I boast in is your grace. So many of our songs focus on this moment, don't they? When I survey the wondrous cross on which the prince of glory died, my richest gain I count but lost, my crown and I pour contempt on all my pride. …
… It's probably pretty loud. They said, worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise. And then I heard, first I had 24 elders and four living creatures. And there were 100 million angels. And now every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea and all that is in them. We're all now saying to him who sits on the throne and to, say it with me, the lamb. Be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever. And the four living creatures said, no. No, they didn't say amen. They said, amen! They said, amen! No, they said, amen! I want to try one more time. They said, amen! With a hundred million angels and a little child. They were all there worshiping Jesus. It's all about him. It's all about the Lamb of God. They even named the book that contains your name, if you put faith in Jesus, in it after him. …
… and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing and I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them saying to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever. the lamb the Passover lamb was insufficient but Christ the lamb of God was slain once for all the just for the unjust in order that he might bring us back to God two lambs met that night one was insufficient the other was holy and utterly sufficient so sufficient was the death of this lamb. That if God were to decide tonight that he wanted a billion more people to be numbered among the elect, the lamb would not have to shed one more drop of blood for that extra billion. …
… and thousands and thousands of angels. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. And every created thing in heaven is also responding, saying, to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever. And then in verse 14, the four living creatures say amen, and the elders fall down and worship. what you have is this nonstop worship going on in heaven, nonstop, coming from angels and saints who are gathered around the throne. Heaven is a noisy place, and it is filled with unending praise, which then makes it shocking to see all of it stop. In verse 1, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. In the vision, there was dead silence. Half an hour would seem like a long time when unending praise halted. It would be very natural in the vision for John to say, what in the world is going to happen? What could stop heaven's praise? What could silence heavens, angels, and saints, men and angels glorified, holy, around the throne, doing what they will do forever, go dead silent. What could possibly cause that? What would be so awesome, so totally dominating, so significant that it would silence the praise of heaven? …
… sat on the throne a book or a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals? And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it. Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or look into it. And one of the elders said to me, stop weeping. Behold, the lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals. And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures and the elders a lamb standing as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. When he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the book and to break its seals, for you were slain and purchased for God with your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, …
… the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might. and honor and glory and blessing and I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them saying to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever and the four living creatures said amen and the elders fell down and worshiped Thank you. Now I watched when the lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, come. And I looked and behold a white horse, and its rider had a bow and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering and to conquer. When he opened the second seal I heard the second living creature say, come. …
… numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, and wealth, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And I heard every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, and all that's in them saying, to him who sits on the throne, and to the lamb, be blessing, and honor, and glory, and might forever and ever. Can you imagine seeing that? Man, can you imagine? Like, you know what hit me about this passage the other day? was where we come into the picture. Okay, so you've got the throne of God. You've got the lightning, the thunder, the fire, the throne. You've got those four living creatures with eyes all over their wings and six wings each and all over their bodies. And they're screaming, holy, holy, holy. You have these 24 elders and they're just staring at the throne and they're just bowing down. …