The Revelation 3:10-13 | Episode # 1024

September 11, 2025

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

The Revelation 3:10-13

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, because you've kept my commands to persevere,

I also will keep from you the hour of trial,

huh?

Which shall come upon the whole world.

Now, this is a beginning to allude to a promise that's found in the Old Testament and the New Testament,

that the redeemed do not undergo the full wrath of God.

Okay?

And so this.

This is not just an outright saying that it's actually spoken of in scripture. I can't remember where it's at.

But the wrath of God is set aside for.

Yeah, ungodliness is set aside for those who are not God,

okay? Everything that's not God,

Remember, you got God.

And then everything that is not God is sin,

okay? And we talked about that a whole lot in the book before Jonah. And so understanding, kind of getting that principle in your head,

you realize that God's wrath is for that which is not his or him first. Thessalonians 5, 9.

All right?

And by the way, Thessalonians is a neat book, too, because it deals with a church that he mentions. Jesus is coming back. And then somebody came in and told them that Jesus had come back,

and they were left behind.

That's the name of a book, too.

And then he had to write him a book and explain to them exactly how it was gonna work out. And that's two Thessalonians, which is a powerful book to study,

to understand the end times, because Paul does a great job of explaining that in Thessalonians. And we get a lot of understandings that shed light on this. He says that his people, his children,

shall not suffer his wrath.

Okay?

Which means you have to begin to ask the question,

all right? When is his wrath?

Well, the book of the Revelation is about the wrath of God against all ungodliness,

not godliness, right?

And sin.

And it's spoken of in Romans, chapter one.

And it's carried out pretty.

Pretty methodically in the book of the Revelation, we're going to deal with a lot of the wrath of God against sin,

okay?

And he says, his children shall not undergo his wrath. So that leads to the question,

where are his children?

Right?

He says, because you've kept my command, my command and persevered, I also keep you from the hour of trial which has come upon the whole earth to test those who dwell on the earth.

By the way, I do have 1 Thessalonians 4, 5 verses 4 and 9 written down. Thanks, Tina. He says, behold, I'm coming quickly.

Hold fast to what you have that no one may take your crown.

All right? Now, a lot of times when we read this passage,

it is a difficult Greek phrase to.

To translate, okay?

It means, behold, when I come is fast.

Okay?

And that leads us back to the twinkling of an eye,

to the idea, you know, with the parable of the ten virgins. And the idea, when the door opens, it opens, and then when it shuts, it's over,

okay? And that idea is carried out here in the understanding that he says, when. When it. When this happens, it's going to happen quick.

What he's saying is time's getting past us.

We're in the sixth church here,

okay?

We're getting toward the end,

and so you don't know when that's going to happen. And I say to people all the time, because people want to come up and say, and, you know, the older you are, the more you want to do this.

So I'm just giving y' all a warning as we get older, okay?

I remember making note of it when I was young pastor, but the older we get, the worse we think things are okay. All right? Just letting you know, the older we get, the worse we think things are okay?

And let me tell you something. Sometimes they are bad,

but, you know, in the 1940s, like, 250 million people were getting killed. So it really wasn't. It's not been that bad right now.

You know what I'm talking about? In the 1920s, people were starving to death.

They had to repopulate the deer in Alabama because we killed them all and ate them all. We ate all the hawks, we ate all the deer. We ate crow.

I mean, we ate possum. We ate any animal that we could kill. We ate because we was hungry,

okay? Yeah. And, I mean, you can look at me and you tell, I ain't been hungry in a long time.

Okay?

Well, that's. That's. It's the truth. And it's important. So many times we have a view of.

We have.

We have such a. Such a short, narrow view of how things are that we think things are so terrible. And then we le. That leads us to say, well, you know, Jesus is going to have to come back, like right now.

Okay?

And I will say this. A lot of things that are needed for Jesus to come back are in place,

but a lot of it aren't.

And some of it may take a few more years.

Of course, now, you know, he's God, so he could get it all put together real fast. He could throw it together, you know, really fast. He can put that picnic together whenever he wants to.

But it's not like it's all over with.

Okay?

And I would say this especially to you and especially to Christians,

a message that everything is going to Hades in a hand basket, okay.

Is a message based off of fear.

Okay.

And it's not a powerful message scripturally.

Are you with me?

Although it will sell several books.

Okay?

Well, you can sell a lot of books with it.

And so I'd say to you, you need to. You. As you're studying this, he. He's basically saying, get. You're not going to undergo my wrath.

So. And, and by the way, when this happens, it's going to happen fast.

You just got to be ready.

That's the issue. Just be ready. Don't. If it happens fast and it happens tomorrow, that's fine.

But. But don't act like everything is just as terrible as it possibly can be,

because it's not yet.

It's really not.

All right.

He says, he who overcomes, I'll make him a pillar.

Behold, I'm coming quickly. Hold fast to what you have that no one may take your. What.

What crown's he talking about?

He's combat the crown of life. That's exactly right. He's talking about the crown that comes by faith.

Okay?

That is the you, you. Everybody gets a crown in heaven because everybody in heaven is going to have manifest faith.

So what he's saying is, don't let anybody take away the image.

The good thing that comes from faith.

And what would somebody give you to replace faith?

Fear.

That's exactly right. What would be given to replace faith would be fear.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of God, of my God, and he shall go out no more.

What he's saying is, you're going to be with me forever.

You're going to be right there. I'm going to make you I'm going to make you right there in the middle of my sanctuary. You're going to be. You're going to be there.

He says,

by the way, that means you can't be taken away, right? If he makes you a pillar, he don't knock the pillar down.

Just letting you know.

I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God,

the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God. And I will write on him my new name.

So for those of you who are against tattoos, we're gonna have a tattoo written on us.

Okay?

He's writing his name on you.

Okay.

All right. Make room. Make sure you keep room for it.

Okay.

All right. Just letting you know. Don't fill all space up with other things. Make sure you got a little room for that.

All right?

That comes from Leviticus, and it is the law. And I used to believe it wholeheartedly, and now I know that that's just legalism. All right? And so.

And so.

So.

But I would leave some room for him to write a name on anyway. He says he comes down from heaven, my God, and I'll write on him a new name.

What he's saying, he's giving him a lot of promises here.

He.

He says, I'm going to.

He's going to. I'm gonna write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem. By the way,

wait till we get to that chapter.

And I described the New Jerusalem. When you realize how big it is, you're going to sit there and think that you think they can see the Great Wall of China from space.

Let me tell you,

the new city of Jerusalem is going to be like a big pimple on the earth from outer space. You're going to be able to see the giant city glowing from outer space.

He says, I'll write on him his new name. He who has an ear, let him hear with the Spirit. Notice who's saying this to the churches?

The Spirit.

He's the one who's given it. Jesus is. From his mouth.

But notice,

he again says,

even if I say it, but if the Spirit doesn't reveal it to you, you can't know it.

He says that to every church.

Even if I tell you this,

if the Spirit doesn't reveal it to you, you can't know it 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.