The Revelation 4:11 | Episode # 1035

September 26, 2025

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

The Revelation 4:11

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.

Now, I want you to notice what they say because they say something,

but they don't say it.

They sing it.

You go, what does it say? Sing or say? It says sing.

He says, notice they start out just dead right out the gate.

In the what?

First person.

You are worthy, O Lord,

to receive glory and honor and power.

It's very much similar to what the other angels say, but they say it as if they personally know it.

They speak it directly to Him.

The four and 20 elders, the priesthood, the US,

we speak directly to God.

Our songs, our singing is a.

Is about God, but it's to God and about God.

Okay,

now that's one of the things I really focus in on for worship in my own mind.

By the way, there's some great worship songs that are in the third person,

if you'll listen to them and realize they're in the third person. In fact, Tina was doing that with a song Sunday Morning. She changed it from the third person to the first person.

If you like a worship song that's in the third person, try it in the first person,

see if you like it better. I'm going to tell you, most of the time you will. Why? Because you're singing to God, not about God.

You've got more about. You've got more than what you know about God. You have what you know of God because you know God.

Fact in that. What Jesus said to the disciples,

you know me,

he said, you know me.

God wants you to know Him. He desires that for you.

He desires that you know him. You're worthy to receive glory. Glory and honor and power.

Glory's holiness.

Honor is the work of his hands. He's what he's done. Work wise is. Is worthy of. Of praise.

Power is he. He is sovereign and in control.

He says, for you created all things.

Didn't we talk about that earlier?

What he's saying is is that everything that was made was made by Him. You made everything.

You're in charge. I mean, you made it.

For you created all things. And by your will, they exist and were created.

By your will, they exist and were created. I want to take you back because we've started a long journey through the Book of John.

I don't know when we started, but it seems like forever and ever and ever ago.

On Sunday morning,

John 1:1 says this. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God,

meaning God.

The Word was with God the Father in the beginning.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through him,

and without Him. Nothing was made that was made,

which means he formed it. All in him was life, and that life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. This man came as a witness to bear witness to the light that all through him might believe he was not that light, but he was sent to bear witness of that light that was the true light,

which gives light to every man coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

He came to his own, and his own did not receive him, but as many as receive him. To them he gave the right to become the children of God to those who believe in his name,

who are born not of blood,

nor the will of the flesh, nor the will of man,

but of God born of God.

Verse 14 says, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten Father,

full of grace and truth.

You see,

when we get to heaven and we get to this section of Scripture where it's dealing with God's making all things, right?

It is spiritual and it is physical.

It involves angelic and heavenly beings.

It involves earthly beings and humanity.

It involves all that God has made and all that is. But because, by the way, heaven itself is an aspect of that creation,

okay?

God didn't come into something and then figure out, I'm going to live here in heaven.

He made heaven himself,

okay?

And so when we're going through what's about to happen, and let me tell you something.

Have I told you that a section in verse, chapters one through four is really, really good? And the best stuff you've ever heard?

Have I told y' all that? Well, let me tell you, five is.

It's just really, really Good.

Okay. Because we're going to deal with the title deed to the earth, and we're fixing to see Jesus, and it's going to be. I mean, he's going to say, okay, we've.

We've got all the players set, and now I need to show you what the plan is and how it's working out. And let me tell you, chapter five is.

Well,

most of it you've heard before. You know why? Because it gets repeated all the time. It's. It's quoted everywhere all the time.

Well, for next week, it's going to be the best chapter in the book of Revelation for sure.

Until the next chapter.

Right.

And after the last one was the best chapter.

All right, I want you. I want you. I want you to remember that. That as we're studying through this, you cannot separate the physical from the spiritual, nor can you separate the spiritual from the physical.

Do not try as you live. You do live in the world, but you're not of the world.

You have authority over the world, but you're not the wise one who knows everything. You've been sent a counselor to lead and guide you into all truth so that you can have access to more understanding and knowledge than even the fallen angels do.

But unless you operate in the leadership and the power of the Holy Spirit, you cannot make it. Does that make sense?

And if you feel like the lines, the spiritual powers are out there after you and.

And the world's caving in on you,

let me say this to you.

That's absolutely true.

If there wasn't God,

okay,

But once you add God to the equation, it's not true.

It's not true anymore.

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.