The Revelation 15:3-4 | Episode # 1112

January 20, 2026

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

The Revelation 15:3-4

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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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 they sing a song of Moses, the servant of God and the song of the Lamb. So they're singing, they're going, they're going.

To the Old Testament, Moses to the New Testament, Jesus.

It's all together. They're not leaving anything out. So many times we want to, when we're reading the New Testament, we're going.

Well, I don't want to talk about the Old Testament.

That's, that's hard. This stuff that.

I don't care about that. No, no, no, no.

We're all the way to the end of the New Testament to God's plan being fulfilled. And what song are we bringing up? The Song of Moses. We're bringing up the Song of Moses. Don't, don't leave that out. Don't, don't separate yourself from that. It's important song. The Old Testament in the Old Testament is our schoolmaster teaches us, gives us beautiful pictures of the truths that are fulfilled in Jesus Christ. You know, you can't have a, you can't have the final covenant in Jesus Christ until you understand the fullness of the covenants made in, in preparation of the final covenant. It's hard to have the full grace of God if we don't know all that God did to bring about that grace in its fullness. And by the way, the Old Testament's all is always pointing to Jesus and anything that points to Jesus and allows us to understand that this is part of God's plan for a long, long.

Time in the past.

This wasn't just something God brought on the scene 2000 years ago. Anytime you're dealing with God's word and you realize that this is not some, it's not some random plan. This is something been going on for a long, long time. And God's been working it out and he's been pointing to it in time and space when he knew outside of time and space, the whole plan in its fullness. When we do that, we remove God's imprint. We remove his signature from the finished work of his Son. If I take away the book of Ezekiel and the book of Daniel and the book of Jeremiah, and I take away so many of the minor prophets, and I take away what Moses said about the Redeemer to come, and even what Job said about the Redeemer, if I take away those things and then Jesus comes, then how do I know that it's fully Jesus? How I know that that's fully God's plan? Well, the reason I know that is because thousands of years before or hundreds of years before, however you want to define it, whichever passage you're using, God said, this is what the Redeemer is going to be like. And then Jesus was those things. He lived out those things. He.

He.

He became those things. And so now I can say, yeah, God said this, and then Jesus did.

This, just like it's always been. God wills it, and the Son physically in the manifestation of the universe does it.

So they sang a song of Moses and the servant of God and the song of the Lamb. Now remember, we always do this. And when we're studying through songs in the book of the Revelation, when you study through songs in the book of Psalms, it's written by David, sometimes he's singing to God, sometimes he's singing about God. And that's okay because it's an Old Testament figure. But the two God passages are. Seem to be, seem to be really.

Really his, his soul singing to the Lord.

And then oftentimes the passages, the Psalms that he writes about God are the theological. They give us theological understanding. Now, which one's more important? Well, no, neither one of them are more important, but the theological understandings are really, really good. But the songs that we sing to.

God are New Testament ideas. It's the idea that I have a relationship with God. I actually have an intimate walk with God. And so I should sing those songs. I should sing those songs to God.

New Testament church churches should sing songs to God. Now, we're going to sing some theological songs. We're going to sing some songs that give us understanding that, that feed our.

Emotive while our mind is taking them on.

And that's why when. Sometimes when you're studying God's word and a passage points to something you remember singing about, your heart turns toward that.

Because why?

The emotions. The emotions seek the word of God.

Deep in our minds. And so I don't know why I'm all into this today, but. But I do know that somebody down the road is going to be hearing this. And you realize how important worship is. How important. Singing to God and singing and singing in worship to your Lord seats. It opens you up, purifies you, and.

Yet allows you to.

To hear God's voice.

And that is the word of God.

And then you hear his revelation to you personally.

Notice what they say to him. They say, first person. Great and marvelous are.

Your works. Your.

It's. It's first person.

It's, it's, it's talking directly to God.

Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty. Now we know that God is God. Theos.

Here it is in the New Testament, the Greek word for Theos.

But the Lord God is Jesus, manifest in the flesh. He is the Lord God Almighty.

He is the Lord Jesus Christ.

So they're singing to the song, the song to the lamb and the song of Moses. It's a mixture of both just and true. Are your ways God's God is going to notice. They're telling us that God is sure, he's marvelous, he's wonderful. He's great. He's new every morning. His mercies are new every morning. But he's also. What is he?

He's just and true in his ways.

So what that means is that if.

He says something, he's got to live up to it. He's not a man that he should lie. He got to live up to it.

Trust and trust and true are your ways. What is he trying to tell us? He's trying to tell us when we're dealing with the wrath of God. God's got a right to be wrath.

Doesn'T he doesn't gotta have a right to be wrathful. Yeah, because his ways are just and true. He's got a right to be wrathful. He's got a right to say that this is sin and that's not, and that this. This will face my judgment and that won't. And notice, notice, notice.

Just and true are your ways, O.

King of the saints. Huh? Now that word for saints can be translated saints and it can be translated nations. So who is the king of the nations? Who is. Well, Satan offered to make him ruler of the nations just by fiat, if he'd worship Satan.

But.

But Jesus knew that he would be made king of the nations because he would redeem the nations out of sin.

And so Jesus. Jesus was going to bring about his lordship or his kingship or his royal.

Position over the nation.

He was going to do that he was going to do that by his redemptive power.

Now, now, even though some of those.

Aren'T redeemed, that does not mean that.

They'Re not under his lordship, because he is. He has power over sin and death. And so even though you're under the penalty of sin and death does not mean that you're. You're. That you're not under his. Under his royal power, because his power is above sin and death. And so even those who are not redeemed, even those who are under the judgment of God, are under his kingship and authority because he has authority over sin and death, which rules in their hearts. And so he is king of not only the believers, not only the redeemed who are the saints, but he's king. And he's king over the nations, too. He has a right to judge them. He's earned the right to judge them because he's got the power over those things.

Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name. Notice he's saying, he says, you know, this song is saying that.

That everyone will fear you and everyone will glorify your name.

It asked that question, and the answer.

Is a rhetorical question. The answer is no one, no one, no one will not fear you. Everyone will fear you. And there's nobody who won't glorify your name.

Everybody's going to glorify your name, and everybody's going to fear you. That's the way it goes. That's what it's going to be. At the name of Jesus. Philippians chapter two says, at the name of Jesus, every niche about and tongue.

Confessed to the glory of God.

Everybody fears him.

Everybody glorifies him. Remember, the word for fear is to.

Place him in his proper position, which.

Means he's King, Lord of the universe, and we are. We are his possession. He has bought title deed to the whole universe. We've already seen that when the angel asked who is able to overcome and open the scroll? And no one was found, and John was crying, and then they tapped him on the shoulder and said, see the.

Line of the tribe of Judah, the root of David.

He's overcome. He's able to open the scrolls. So when we read this, he has bought the earth with his glory, and he is due to be feared. And as his proper position as King of the universe. Lord, King of the universe. And he has the right to be. Well, he has a right to be glorified. And that means to be made known. That means to.

To.

To say that he is True. That's a really kind of weird way of defining glorify. But really, that's what it means. It means to say that he's true means to make known he is true. His name is true. The names that describe Jesus, all the names of God are true. Jesus means he who saves. So we know that's true. He says, for you alone are holy. Notice nothing else is holy as you are. No, nobody, nobody, nobody rises to your standard. There's no.

There's no equality.

There's no equity in holiness.

Everybody doesn't get to be holy.

Only one is truly holy.

And who is that? That's God. That's God. That's Jesus, the Lord God who rules the nations. He deserves to be feared for all nations shall come and worship before you. We've already mentioned the passage in Philippians. Every knee shall bow and tongue confess at the name of Jesus.

Every knee shall bow and tongue confess.

All the nations are going to come and worship you. Everybody's going to worship Jesus. There's no way to get around it. That's the way it's going to work. That's the way it's going to be. You can't. If you're trying to figure out how to parse it out and make it so that it doesn't work that way, well, it's just not.

No way to do it. No way to do it. He.

Every knee shall bow and every tongue confessed. Everyone's going to worship Him. Why? Because. Not only. Because his judgments are true. Now, now listen. This is, this is. This ends with, with that. Well, it ends with an ending, okay? It puts a bow on it. Everywhere else before then it says, you know, His. His judgments are right. His judgments are good. His judgments are, are blessed. His judgments are health to our bodies. His judgments are hope to our lives. All, all, all throughout the Bible up to. Up to this point, everywhere else in the Bible, we got all the things that God's judgments are. But, but, but we've not really. We don't really know his wrath in its fullness. And by the way, we.

We don't know his blessings in its fullness.

We hadn't really experienced it yet.

Fully. We don't know it. We don't know it fully. Like we could know it. We don't. We don't know it yet.

But now after these, after these, these bowls of wrath are going to be poured out.

His. His judgments are going to be manifest. They're going to be fully known. He's going to make sure that we are not in the dark. We're not left as orphans, as it were. We're not. We're not orphans.

His judgments are fully known. It's fully manifest. He's let us know and notice. Notice all the way through as we're studying it.

And great are your works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are you. Your ways, O King of the saints.

Who's singing this? The people with the harps. The people who are on the sea of glass. The Gentiles who have overcome there. Notice. They're not singing about God. Who, what are they doing? They're singing to God who shall not fear you and glorify your name.

You alone are worthy.

All the nations shall come before you. For, for your judgments have been manifest. They are manifest in the world. Now there's only. There's only one, One, one way you.

Can speak to God directly. And that means you gotta be in his presence. And the only way I can be in his presence is. Is to be allowed into his. Into his royal throne room. And, and who is invited in to be before God in his holiness and speak to him and. As if we know him well, those who do know him, those who are redeemed, we. We have a right to notice.

This song is really.

It's kind of an Old Testament song to it, because what are we glorifying God for? For his judgments. His. His wrath and judgment. I mean, if you see the Old.

Testament as wrath and judgment, this, this.

This is not going to dissuade you any from it. No. You know, because He's. We're not.

He.

He's not.

Nothing in here is talking about his.

Grace and mercy and his goodness.

Although all that's for us.

This is the saints saying, you know, God, you were right to do what you did. You're right to act the way you act and be who you are. Your works are great and marvelous and you're almighty God. And, and, and your ways are just and true. Now. They're. They're good and, and pleasing and, and beautiful and all that. But not in this song. Not in this song. In this song, they're just. Just and true.

Why? Because we're dealing with the manifest wrath.

Of God against sin. And, and the re. Not only that, are your ways just and true, but you have a right to do it with everybody because you're king over everybody. And you. You deserve to be feared.

Who. Who.

Who will not fear you and who will not glorify you? It's easy to say the saints. And all of us going to glorify him because you know that's what we're supposed to do. But everybody's going to glorify you. Even though even those who are under your wrath and judgment and you alone are holy. You alone, you, you, you are set apart. Holiness means to be different, to be set apart, to be pure, to be without sin. You alone are holy for all nations come and worship before you, meaning.

They.

Going to come and, and give you your due. For your judgments have been made known. Your judgments are known.

You go, well, how do, how does everybody know? Well, the Bible says that he writes.

His, his commandments, His Word, his, His law on our heart. Every person, every person in the world has his, has his, has his judgments written on their heart. And every person in the world, every person in the world can recognize his qualities and divine nature in what was made. So even if you're lost, even if you, you have rejected him, or even if you, your heart has not been drawn toward him, you're still without excuse because you know his truth has been written on your heart. And so even if the Holy Spirit's not ever called you or not ever wooed you, even if you haven't heard.

The voice of God, you're still, that.

Doesn'T mean that you're not, you're not culpable for your, for your sin. You're still culpable for your sin. Now, the culpability is going to be different as to the revelation, but you're still culpable. Just like, just like we're, we're responsible for our faith, so we're going to be rewarded for how much we do trust him or don't trust him with our lives. But we're culpable for that. So are those who are, who are under the judgment of God. They're culpable with him because.

Who he.

Is as the creator of the universe is encoded in his creation. And that's a powerful thing to kind of explore. You could explore that the rest of your life, but this is a great passage. It's a great passage. Well, I mean, they're all great, but it's a really fun passage because it kind of gives us an insight into this whole judgment thing that's going on that we're not going to have to deal with. You just deal with God's. Well, for, for us, we deal with God's salvation, which is his correction of us as we walk and his setting us right before Him. What a, what a great, what a great study.

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.