The Revelation 1:7-10 | Episode #1009

August 21, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

The Revelation 1:7-10

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Applying God's word to your daily life.

Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years.

I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life.

I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day,

especially today in Jesus name.

He says, behold, he cometh in the clouds.

I'm the alpha and the omega, the beginning, the end, says the Lord, who is and was and is to come the Almighty. I, John. Now notice he's telling you, okay, this is John.

It's me,

both your brother and companion in tribulation,

which means I'm a man just like you. I'm a human just like you. I'm a brother just like you. And not only that, I. I'm a companion of yours in what troubles,

struggles,

tribulations.

I'm going through tribulations and struggles just like you're going through tribulations and struggles.

It's difficult on me, just like it's difficult on you.

Notice what else he says.

And king and kingdom and patience.

So even though we're limited as human beings, even though I am going through struggles with your. We're all a part of one kingdom,

and we're also a part of the patience of God in waiting.

So many people want.

So many people want for Jesus to come back today,

for this to all be over in a moment,

for everything to be taken care of. Well, let me tell you something.

That thought has been going on for 2,000 years.

And I don't know if you know it or not, but you at the tail end of that 2000 years.

Am I right?

So if Jesus had come back when they wanted him to come back,

well, you wouldn't even be here to have Him.

Okay? And I always am cognizant of that when I'm studying the Revelation, I'm trying to figure out,

you know, what's going on. Is it possible that Jesus is coming back now? And I realized that God is patient.

He's longsuffering,

he's slow to anger.

He's full of grace and mercy. Why?

Because we need it.

Because we need it. We need him to be patient. And the more patient he is. The more brothers and sisters we have in the kingdom.

So understanding that, we understand that this is not something that we should be trying to figure out when Jesus is coming back.

He's already told us. It's not for you to know,

but he says that he's.

He's. He's with us.

That's who John is,

the patience of Jesus Christ,

who own the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. Now, what he's saying is,

I received this revelation on an island. Island is a penal colony called Patmos,

okay?

It's in the Mediterranean area,

okay? It's a rock that they put them on. When I say a penal colony, I'm talking about a prison camp.

They put them on that island. Whenever they brought more people to be on the island, they did bring some food. They brought also some great delicacies for them to be able to eat and live off of rats,

okay?

And other animals that would have gotten off on the island along with the people.

And they lived in the caves and they lived in whatever shelter they could make.

And they were marooned on that island. That's what they were.

And the Romans took John and left him there.

The Bible,

the history teaches us that he was there for a good long while,

and finally he was released and went to preach the Gospel and eventually was crucified himself for Christ.

But John says, I was on the isle of Patmos.

Now, he also says something very interesting here.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,

okay?

Now,

oftentimes you'll run into folks who are heavily into judaizing. And what I mean by that is living by the Old Testament law,

okay? And they like the Old Testament law,

and they want you to. And in fact, sometimes they even argue about this. They want you to live by the law.

Go back to the law.

And, you know, Paul had some fairly strict words about that,

huh? He said, yeah. He says, you die by the law,

you cannot fulfill the law by your own will.

You can only fulfill the covenant that comes with the law by living by the Spirit.

And John says he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

Now, if you look that up and do some research, you can go down some pretty bad rabbit holes, I'm gonna tell you. Okay? All right?

And one of the rabbit holes, I went down to explain why this couldn't be him talking about Sunday, because it was somebody who wanted to be a Judaizer, okay? Wanted us to worship God on the Sabbath or Shabbat on Saturday and eat the right foods and live the right way as a Jew might live it.

Wanted to tell you that this couldn't be Sunday.

But if you read it in its context, and this phrase is used several times in the New Testament, you begin to realize he's not talking about the Shabbat because he could have said what Shabbat.

He could have said the Sabbath.

It's talking about a different day.

And in its context throughout the New Testament, you begin to realize that's where we get the idea of worshiping on Sunday. Why is it the Lord's Day? Well, who is the Lord God?

Okay.

Who is the Lord God?

Yeah. Jesus.

Jesus is the Lord God.

Okay. All right. And so if it's the Lord's Day,

that would be a day that's set aside by him, by something he's done.

And, you know, they'll even say, well, he wasn't even resurrected on the Lord's Day on Sunday,

because they say he was resurrected for the sun came up.

Well, you know, the Bible doesn't tell us. That doesn't tell us where it happened at the sunrise or before the sunrise.

Okay?

The Lord's Day. He says, I was in the spirit.

All right. And this makes some denominational folks very uncomfortable,

okay? It really does.

It's a little bit troubling and a little bit struggling.

It is an idea that you see John use several times.

It's actually found several times in Scripture that he was in the spirit,

which would mean that he was. That you can be in the spirit and not in the spirit. Right?

Because if I'm in the spirit at this time,

then that means that sometimes I'm what?

Not in the spirit. Now, now, that doesn't mean. Doesn't have to do with you being saved.

It can't mean that. Right?

Because if that means being saved, then that means I can be saved sometimes and not saved sometimes.

Are you following me?

All right. That's not what that means. That means there are times when you are seeking God, worshiping God, and the Spirit of God is upon you and you are in the spirit.

That's beyond being filled with the spirit. That's beyond being born again and having a new spirit. Amazing.

It is the idea of being engulfed. If I'm in something, that means it's what,

all around me, it's all over me, Right?

So if I'm in the Spirit, that means the Holy Spirit has filled me and he is all over me. And in the Old Testament,

that's the primary way the Holy Spirit worked for the Old Testament saints.

The Bible doesn't speak about Old Testament saints very much, if at all.

There's some question about that, and it's a struggle for me as I read through it, but it doesn't talk about them being filled with the Holy Spirit or filled with the Spirit.

It speaks about them being the Spirit upon them.

All right. In the New Testament,

the first thing that happens is you're filled with the Holy Spirit and He gives you the new birth and you have a new Spirit in you, and then you're working toward what?

The Spirit of God coming upon you in power. In fact, that's what he told him to do when he told him to go to Jerusalem on Pentecost. He said,

tarry in Jerusalem until you receive power from on high.

And the Bible says the Spirit of God came down upon them in tongues of fire.

Okay, all right. So those ideas of the Holy Spirit being in you and. And upon you are important.

All right, you go, well, how do we.

What's the difference? Well, when the Holy Spirit comes and fills you and makes you born again, now I have a new human spirit.

Are you following me?

Then the Bible says, be continually filled with the Holy Spirit, which means there's times when I could have the Spirit not in me fully.

All right,

we know that Jesus at times had to go on the mountain to be filled.

Okay.

All right. He had to slip away and spend time with God to be filled.

Now,

how do you go from being filled with the Spirit to the Spirit coming upon you in power?

Well, you do that by understanding His Word,

believing His Word and walking it out.

And when that happens, he comes on you in power.

Okay.

Does that mean there are times when he's not upon you in power?

Yeah.

How many Christians do you know might not have been upon them in a while?

Right.

They may not even been filled in a while.

You run into a lot of Christians who, in many ways, other than having that new human spirit and the Holy Spirit,

you know,

hanging on,

they've been in a dry and parched land for a long, long time.

And they're not even sure they know that whether God exists or not.

You ever met one like that?

Well, that's because they hadn't been filled with the Holy Spirit very much.

And they sure haven't known the power of His Holy Spirit.

John says, I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I believe that to be Sunday.

And I heard behind me a loud voice as of Trumpets.

Now, Trumpets is always an announcement. Okay.

And what he's hearing is he's hearing something behind him.

And trumpets. Now, I love the way he says this.

And. And the reason is he's going to have revealed to him.

He's going to have revealed to him a revelation that's about the future.

But for him, it's coming from behind him,

meaning it's being born from the past.

Are you with me?

The way he's receiving it is he's receiving it from someone he already knows,

not someone he doesn't know.

And so the announcement doesn't come from in front of him,

it comes from behind him.

As you go today, I pray that.

The Lord will bless you and keep you,

that he'll make his face to shine upon you, and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.