The Revelation 7:0-12 | Episode # 1049

October 16 2025

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

The Revelation 7:10-12

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.

Notice what they say.

They cry out with a loud voice,

all of them, too many to count,

saying,

salvation belongs to our God.

Now listen to me. I know all y' all with your Baptist backgrounds, okay? And your Methodist backgrounds, your mainline denominational backgrounds. When I say salvation,

you think of the time where God let you know he was there.

You know what I'm talking about?

You realized God was there. You realized His Word was speaking to your heart, and you turned to Him. Now listen to me.

That is salvation,

but it ain't all of salvation. That is your hearing his voice.

That is your repenting. That is your being changed and turning and chasing after God. Right?

But salvation is more than that. It's a process.

Redemption deals with me being redeemed and born again.

Salvation begins with me hearing God being converted,

turning, repenting and walking with Him.

But it ends when I die and I'm glorified before Him.

Salvation is a process.

Salvation deals with your soul.

It deals with your heart and your mind being made in the image of God.

So what do they say? Because there's great theology here.

They say salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

All right,

what does that mean?

Well, that means this salvation belongs to God, meaning who willed salvation to be God? The Father,

the Father willed salvation to be.

Who provided salvation?

Jesus Christ.

Through the blood of the Lamb.

He provided salvation. Salvation for us.

And how does he provide it?

With the water of the Holy Spirit?

With the washing of the Word.

He provides it by washing us in His Word. You are never going to have your mind changed. You're never going to have your heart change, you're never going to have your emotions changed, you're never going to have your thoughts changed unless you.

God's word changes.

Doesn't happen.

Dirty little secret. In the judicial field,

people who struggle with one of the main problems in our society today which is addiction.

I want you to hear me.

The success rate for people going to addiction centers that are not Bible based. Did you hear what I said? I didn't say religious, I didn't say spiritual,

I said Bible based.

The long term success rate is almost zero.

Now let me tell you this.

The success rate of Bible based chemical addiction units,

about 15 to 20%.

But the cool thing about them is this. If you go to a non Bible based addiction treatment center and you get 0%, and you go again and get 0%.

Got some math here.

This is high level.

0 times 0 is 0.

But the cool thing is if you go one time,

you got a 15% chance the next time you go. If you go to a Christian basement,

you got another 15% chance.

Now that doesn't mean that it's 15 times 15 or 0 plus 0 or 0 times 0.

That means if you go twice,

there's a 30% chance you're delivered from addiction. If you go three times, it's 45. If you go four times, it's 60.

If you go five times, it's 75. Do you mean, you mean you got to go five times? Sometimes, yeah, sometimes.

Now remember I told you some of them, 15, if you're lucky enough to go the first time, it's 15% and you get to 15% and you get healed and you move on with your life.

That's great.

But so many times I will do a family and go, well,

he's been to Prehab two times. I'm sitting there thinking, well, really, he needs to go five or six for sure before you even consider whether or not it's taken.

What do you mean? Needs to go five or six? Well, if you ever took the stuff he takes, I don't recommend it.

It's hard to get over it.

God's redemption. And by the way, the hearts of man is replete with wickedness. Salvation is. It doesn't happen overnight.

Salvation's a process.

So if I'm going to save you from one of the worst things in the world that deals with your mind, if I'm going to save you from that.

Are y' all listening to me?

It might take several times.

And by the way,

for those of you, point to those folks and say, well, they sent,

they just a drug addict.

And I hear that all the time.

I had one tell me today, well, she's just a drug addict.

And I was sitting there going,

she said they went to a drug treatment center and didn't finish. I go, that's pretty normal.

She Checked her own self in. Great. You mean she did it on her own?

Wow.

Meant she knew she needed it.

Quit casting stones.

Quit acting like you're better than them.

By the way,

there's a lot of drug addicts in the church that are just that good at hiding their drug addict. Nessus.

Just letting you know,

nicotine's a drug.

Alcohol is a drug.

Xanax is a drug,

a mind altering drug.

Caffeine is a drug.

Just letting you know.

I mean,

let me tell you something.

The opioid, the opioid crisis that we're in was started by pharmaceutical companies.

Are you following me? How many, how many people do you know who were teenagers, who. Somebody said, try this pill. And they took it as teenagers. And by the time they were 22, 23 years old, they were headlong into some kind of chemical addiction which might have been heroin or something like that.

That's worse.

I'm telling you that for a reason.

I'm telling you that for a reason.

Why?

Because salvation is rough.

And anybody who says that they've mastered salvation is a prime example of somebody who has not mastered salvation.

Because you ain't done it.

Even the disciples who'd walked around with Jesus for three years.

Jesus takes off his clothes, puts on the loincloth, begins to wash your feet. Peter says,

I want you to wash my whole body. Jesus said, I've been working on that for a while. Your whole body's clean, only your feet need washing. But did his feet need washing?

Yeah,

he'd been in the world.

How many of y' all been in the world?

How many of y' all been around drug addicts that's been in the world?

Well, let me tell you something. The world, they're in's roof.

I'm being honest with you.

They are.

Now, does that mean we say, well, you're just a drug addict and we're just going to keep giving you money to do drugs? No, that's killing them.

But, but that doesn't mean that we, that doesn't mean that we, we just let it mean we, we, we let it, let them get by because they can't complete the work.

We can't do that.

And we as a church have to learn that. We have to know that folks who have chemical addictions have chemical addictions.

I have, I have a chemical addiction.

I like carbohydrates and sugar a lot.

If you'll throw some protein in there, I mean, I'm good to go, right?

You go, well, that's food. Well, the mind, I Ate is not right,

he says with a loud voice. They say salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

Notice they are proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ, which means they come from some redemption story. What story? Well, the story met a tauta after this,

and it's a bunch of them.

A bunch, a bunch, a bunch of them.

Now when they say that,

now I'm going to tell you, the angels are cool this way.

All you who love some angel stuff, let me give you some angel stuff,

all right?

Angels really get into worship,

and they really, really get into worship of humans, meaning humans worshiping God.

Why? Because they don't understand God the way you do. And they can't understand the way God the way you do. They don't know what his grace and mercy are like, so they don't really know what that is.

Now you say, well,

don't they know something? Yeah, they watch you to learn what it's like,

but they can't experience them it themselves.

And so when human beings who are flawed get in there and start worshiping God, that fires the angels up. I want you to notice every time in the revelation, whenever the God's people start worshiping God, man, the angels get in on it.

They go, wahoo, let's get in.

Remind me of Cope sometimes, you know what I'm talking about? I mean, if Cope runs across somebody worshiping, he just jumps right in there with them.

You know what I'm talking about? It's true.

It's true.

That's what the angels do. Here says all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures fell on their face before the throne and they worshiped God saying, so this is the angels.

Amen.

Which means what they said.

So let it be blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might.

That's seven number of completion.

Those of you who want to know what all those words mean, go back to the other worship song that happened earlier. I'll go. I went into detail about that,

but blessing and glory and wisdom.

In fact, I spent a whole Bible study on wisdom, if y' all remember that.

Thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Now notice the angels when they talk,

when they worship God, they do it in what,

the third person.

What do you mean, Pastor?

First person is you.

And I.

Look, we ought to be really good at pronouns now. We've been taught about them a lot lately.

Are you following me?

In fact, some people, when they introduce themselves, they'll tell you what theirs are and they're wrong a lot.

We live in some interesting times, don't we?

Anyway,

first person is I and you.

If you'll notice,

when human redeemed humans worship God. I'm going to say it. I say it over and over again.

When redeemed humans worship God,

they always speak to him in first person because they have a personal, intimate relationship with Him. When angels worship God, they speak to him in the third person because they do not exist as he exists.

They're not made in his likeness or image,

and they're not capable of fully knowing Him.

Now, it hurts a lot of angel worship in people's feelings.

But by the way, the Bible says, don't worship them. And if you ever talk to one of them, they gonna tell you, don't worship me.

Okay.

Makes sense. There are angels who want to be worshiped, but they're called fallen angels.

Okay.

They're called fallen angels.

All right.

What a powerful worship service breaks out here.

Notice what the elders do. I want you to get this, because this is important.

What do the elders do?

They fall prostrate.

The only New Testament word for worship is proskanu,

which means to fall prostrate. Now, there's several Old Testament words for worship.

Old Testament words,

clap,

shout,

alleluia, sing there. Several.

Several of them in the New Testament. For New Testament saints,

proskanu is the word.

It means to fall on your face.

All right. Now,

I apologize to you, but these floors are pretty hard.

If you're young, I'll be aight with it the older you get. I'm not totally cool with you falling on your face because we might have to get some cranes in there to get some of you up.

Are you following me?

But when we have our new sanctuary, we're going to have a really big altar area all the way across the front. And there will be an area up front where it's a little bit more padded where you could actually be on your face.

You mean, pastor, we're going to have people on their face? Yeah. It's going to make people, all kinds, uncomfortable. Okay,

but we are going to do that and we're going to have that other folks look at me like I can't believe.

Well, I'm just telling you,

if David danced naked all the way to Jerusalem,

I'm not saying we're dancing naked, but I'm just saying we can get down on our face, right?

Can't we?

Yeah, we can do some getting down on our face. Now, some of y' all know.

No, my mom cannot get on our face. We're not letting her. Are you following me?

If you have or think you might in the near future need some kind of mechanical help to walk,

no getting down on your face.

Okay?

But the rest of us should. And when you get a glorified body, you're going to get to do it forever and ever. Okay? So don't feel like you're missing out.

I twisted my knee about two weeks ago, and it still is not okay.

So I'm beginning to fall in that category.

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.