The Revelation 11:18-19 | Episode # 1076

November 24, 2025

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

The Revelation 11:18-19

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.

The nations were angry,

and your wrath has come.

This is a. I mean, this is just so.

A so direct quote.

I mean, every time I read it in my mind, boom. It just clicks. Do y' all know what passage it clicks to?

Psalm 2.

It's. I'm. Psalm. I just gotta read it to you. All right.

Psalm 1's about the process of coming to know God.

Okay.

Huh?

Yeah. Psalm 2. Let me read to you. Why did the nations rage and the people plot in vain?

The king of the earth sets themselves up,

and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,

let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us, meaning we don't want to be under their power and control.

He who sits in heaven shall laugh.

Which means it's ridiculous.

It's totally ridiculous.

How many times y' all worry about something just totally ridiculous?

I mean, if you really understood. If you could just see. If you could just be like the prophet and see the angels around the Assyrian army. If you could just do that,

you would realize it's ridiculous.

It's just ridiculous.

The Lord shall hold them in derision. He shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure.

He says, yet I've set my king on my holy hill of Zion. What he's saying is,

I handle all this. All this crying and whining. It's just. It's just.

It's folly.

Doesn't make sense.

The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged now. Is that talking about us?

No,

you're not the dead. You have life.

Well, he's talking about those who are not. Who are not redeemed,

who remained in death.

He says there's going to be a time for that to come,

and you should reward your servants and your prophets and the saints, meaning there's going to be a great reward for his servants. There's going to be a great reward for us and those who fear your name, small and great.

Which is a true picture of those who. Reverend. God. Reverend. God.

Not Reverend. Reverends.

Do y' all know what Reverend means?

Have I told you all that before?

It means terrible and awful.

Okay.

Yeah. It means terrible and awful.

It's a Latin cognate of.

It's not good.

Okay.

It has the connotation of the fear of God.

How terrible it is to fall in the hands of an angry God.

That's what it. That's the connotation. That's the key verse that I would use for Reverend.

Okay. God is to be Reverend.

Man is not to be Reverend Okay.

If y' all notice if somebody asks me if every once in a while I'll sneak in, somebody will put Reverend Chad Harrison.

No.

Mm.

No.

You can call me a lot of things. Reverend. You can't. Okay. Pastor.

Some other things.

I've had people as a lawyer call me several things. Can't call me that. Church.

Okay,

But Reverend's not one of them. Reverend Ain't it? Why? Because only one God is the God to be feared.

And for the unrighteous, he should be feared. And for the righteous,

the fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding, which means the understanding of how mighty he is, how above he is, how great he is, is the beginning of true.

Really getting it,

and I'm using slang terminology for our time, it really means that the fear of the Lord, meaning a recognition of who he is in all that he is, is really the beginning, is the fundamental beginning of wisdom,

meaning how to understand,

have knowledge of the universe from God's perspective.

But you can't really have God's perspective on things until you really kind of dig into his perspective.

Meaning you got to figure out where he is, who he is.

And so it's very difficult.

It's very difficult to really see the world as God sees it until I really take a deep dive into who. Who he is.

You got to figure out who he really is.

He says and should destroy those who destroy the earth.

Once that trumpet was sounded and once we praised him.

Right.

Notice what person is it in first?

If you'll notice, when Jesus. They asked Jesus how we should pray and he gave us the disciples prayer. Right?

All right. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Thy name.

Right.

Your kingdom come, your will be done. If you'll notice,

it's first person. First person. Jesus teaches this Is then not what you should pray, but how you should pray?

Right.

First thing. Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name. What is that?

I'm gonna see your perspective. I see. I'm. I'm going up here.

I'm talking to one up here.

I want kingdom come.

Kingdom will be done. Will of the Father.

I want to see it from your perspective.

I want to look on the earth as you look on it.

Then I ask him for the things I need,

and I need his daily bread.

I need to consume him.

All right?

It's all first person.

It's all personal.

Then the temple of God was opened in heaven.

All right, this is the heavenly temple.

Okay, you go, well, what's the heavenly temple like?

It's a better version of the earthly temple.

Okay.

But it's the same thing.

And I don't want. I don't want to. I don't want to pass it by without you realizing.

There's a. There was a tabernacle,

then they built a temple,

and then they built another temple. And then they're going to build another temple.

Okay? And then Jesus made a whole bunch of temples,

right?

We're a temple.

All right? Then Jesus made a whole bunch of temples.

But all of them have.

They're a little nuanced difference,

but they all have the same attributes, right?

Generally speaking,

there's one main way in.

It's the way in.

So there's one gate.

There is a place to wash,

to be cleansed by the Holy Spirit.

There's a time for worship and praise.

Enters gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise.

There's celebration that goes on there.

There's a place for a sacrifice.

That's before you go in to the temple. It's outside the temple. It's where you offer yourselves as living sacrifices. If y' all notice, that's why we do what we do in worship, right?

We have,

sure, I give of my finances,

but that's just an outward expression of me giving of myself.

Makes sense.

That's why we have the altar call at that time.

It's a time of expression of me placing myself as a sacrifice,

humbling myself to God.

All right?

They just go on back and forth. Y' all notice that?

All right.

Once I've done that,

I'm now ready to enter into the actual temple.

In the actual temple,

there's a place for teaching and learning and understanding,

right?

It's where Jesus taught.

Then I go into the inner court,

and there is. Where there's incense, which is the prayer of the Saints being offered up.

There's a table with a menorah or a lamp,

okay,

where the Holy Spirit's enlightening. You have the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. And then you've got the Bread of Life that's on the other table. So you've got incense, prayer.

You've got the word of God, you've got the Holy Spirit. So you. You're outside, and you get the teaching.

Then you move inside and you get the revelation.

Make sense?

God reveals himself there. And then when. Then where do you go?

You go into the Holy of Holies.

You go to the mercy seat. You have access to the throne of God, the. The. The very presence of God. So you go from the altar outside, which is sacrificing yourself, to the altar inside where the final sacrifice was made.

And that's where you receive power and grace and all the things that you need as a human being to serve him,

right?

I go through that all the time. Because if you don't know, you know, oftentimes,

really,

we as Christians are the dumbest of animals.

You know, we're the sheep. That's just the dumbest sheep.

Y' all show up, I promise you. Y' all show up to worship, and you just go. Well, they just. They stand also. I stand up.

They sing. So I sometimes sing. It depends on whether I like the song or not,

you know?

Then they pray. Sometimes I shut my eyes. Sometimes not. I don't know what he's talking about up there.

I mean, we do that. How many of y' all did that? Most of your Christian life. You just showed up and the. Be honest now. Don't be lying.

You didn't know why you were doing it. You just. Here we are,

right? Then they got the offering, and, man, I ain't got no money to give, so, you know, I'm out on that. And.

But they just make. They pass it right in front of you, right?

You know, everybody's checking,

see whether or not you're giving anything.

All right,

then preacher gets up there and he talks. And some of them's good, and some of them ain't so good,

right?

And then we have the altar call. And I got to stand there as long as I can. Just be as quiet as I can, make sure I don't go up front and act like I'm some kind of sinner,

right?

But if you really bad sinner and you need to be saved, you got to go up front,

right?

And if we make it to the end of that, then. Then there's going to be preachers, going to say something nice and then we're going to all go home and we eat dinner.

We go out to eat Sunday dinner.

Now I'm telling you, that's what most Christians do most of their life. That's what they do.

And you have no, it's, it's, it's like saying, hey, we're going to play football today. All right. What we going to do? We'll get your pads on. Well, I just put them on?

Yeah, just put them on. All right. We're going to run out there on the field and when they blow the whistle, we're going to say hike. And you just go out there and do it.

What would happen if you did that?

They'd say hike. And you,

you'd be beat to death. Right.

After about two or three hikes, you'd be coming off the field, right?

Be running off the field going, I'm out. I'm not doing this anymore. How many things do you do with no plan at all?

If it's a lot, you need to rethink your life. Okay?

I mean,

look, we're dealing with like God stuff here, right?

We really are. We're dealing with God's stuff. Shouldn't you kind of know why you're doing what you're doing?

If you think about it, just think about the temple. Okay? Temple in Jerusalem.

What's the first thing you do when you get to church?

Hug. Next. Talk to folks. Fellowship.

Is that what goes on at the temple?

Yeah.

Yeah,

yeah. That was the place where everybody came to meet?

Yeah.

Why? Because we're all one family. We're the family of God.

All right,

then there's one way in. So we're going to worship one God and his son, Jesus Christ. Right?

You got to get that.

So when you come in, what do we do?

We.

We try to sing a fired up song, right?

Woo hoo.

You know we're happy to be here,

right?

How many of y' all spent a lot of your Christian life not happy to be there?

Be honest.

Yeah,

yeah. Not happy at all to be there.

You have. Well,

that's good. That's good.

Yeah. If you. Some, some churches around here, you don't know when you're getting out. Okay.

You know I'm going to be within a 30 minute period. Okay. Some places you don't know when you're going to get out.

I didn't say it. Rod said it. Okay.

All right. That's my nephew.

All right.

So you don't like it. You wasn't fired up about it.

How many of y' all, when you were singing,

were singing to God and letting God kind of,

kind of speak to your. Well, really there's two aspects because there's two parts of your of your soul.

There's the emotive part, the emotional,

the passion,

the heart and then there's the sukko, the mind.

All right,

how many of y' all know the singing part is to get your emotions in line so that your mind can hear God?

How many of y' all didn't know that?

Okay, well, good. You've learned something.

The reason we sing is for you to sing to God and allow the Holy Spirit to cleanse you,

the washing of the Holy Spirit to cleanse you and to get your emotions in line so that you can hear from God 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.