The Revelation 19:2 | Episode # 1162

March 31, 2026

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

The Revelation 

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.

Okay? He says, for true and righteous are his judgments. Now notice when we're going to deal with judgment, when we're dealing with judgment, follow this. When we're dealing with judgment, we're dealing with the word of God, the wrath of God. Are you under the judgment of God? No. In fact, who is it that's supposed to judge you not? There were two answers there. One of them was right and one of them was wrong. Who does the Bible teach you? Judges you. Okay? That would be judging your good works. But who's supposed to make judgments about you and your sin because you still have sin? Huh? Not Jesus. Huh? Not God. You. You're supposed to judge yourself. You're supposed to. You're supposed to measure yourself out. Okay, you go. Why would I do that? Well, first of all, I've got to measure it against something. So I'm learning about God, right? And then I've measured myself. So I'm taking responsibility for who I am, who I'm not, who he is in relation who I am. Bible says if you judge yourself, you won't be. What? You won't be judged. He says you need to judge yourself. Now remember it. Does that mean to condemn yourself? No, no, no. It doesn't mean to condemn. It means to make judgments about you. You sit down and go, okay, what's going on here? Oh, I'm doing that. Then, then. Then you take a whip and whip your back and cut yourself, right? Huh? Slam your head into the wall. Is that what you're supposed to do? No, no, no, no. That's not. That's not right. I know there were a lot of people who lived in caves that did that a lot. Okay? Self flagellation, self beating yourself is not. Is not. Is not scriptural. I. I judge myself. I measure myself up against God. And then what? Then I bring whatever the problem is to God. I say, lord, I see this. Who's going to help you with this, by the way? Who's going to help you with this? Well, the Holy Spirit's gonna help you with it. Now, is the Holy Spirit condemning you? No. Is the Holy Spirit unveiling you and unveiling God to you? Sure he is. Absolutely is. So when we're, so when we're judging ourselves, when we're making judgments as to how our life is being lived, the things that we are, who we are before Christ, it's not a judgment of condemnation. Doesn't mean that it's going to be. You're not going to be before Christ, before the, the wrath of God, but it is a right. In fact, we're supposed to do that completely before we take the Lord's supper. Okay, we're to do it. Why? Because before I deal with the redemption of Christ, I need to deal with what in me he is redeeming. Okay? And salvation is the work of his redemption in my life. All right, so there's judgment without what condemnation? Okay, there's judgment without condemnation. By the way, that's how he teaches us to when we're dealing with others. Right? He says, judge not, lest you be judged, for in the manner in which you judge, it will be meted to you. Okay, what does that mean? What does that mean? To not make any judgments? No, but when I'm dealing with somebody else, I need to judge them on the grounds in the light of God's grace. Okay, It's a problem. We see the problem, we deal with the problem, but we don't condemn the one who has the problem. Makes sense. Right? All right, now, now that's who, that's how we're supposed to deal with people. We're not supposed to be just dummies walking around. Well, I don't know what's going on. Well, you think that's a problem? I don't know if it's a problem or not. Well, you know, he can't breathe. He keeps throwing his head in the water and he won't get out of the water. Well, do you think he should stop that? Yes. Yeah, it's kind of like the doctor who my, my grandfather, I mean my father in law went to see and he had a bad shoulder and he was in his late 80s. And he told the doctor that every time he reached back like this to get something, his shoulder stinging, pain in his shoulder, doctor said, don't do that. What, what did he mean by that? Well, first of all, the doctor made judgment. I, I'm not gonna do a surgery on an 87 year old man for him reaching backwards to grab something off something. Now if he can't lift his arms, I might do some surgery, but I'm not doing a surgery for some weird contortion that you're gonna be doing. Trying to get something off of a, off of a shelf. I'm not doing that. That's not how that works. Okay. Was that a proper judgment? Yeah. Did my father in law ask for a judgment about that? Did, did the doctor give him a judgment of grace? Yeah, he said we're not having surgery on that. You just stop doing that. Don't do that. And by the way, that's generally how judgment works with God right now. Right? If I judge myself, most of the things I need to do is to stop doing that. Right. Quit doing that. All right, Makes sense. So it says here, it says here that salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord your God. For true and righteous are his judgments. Because he is, he is judged. The. The harlot. Okay? Now whatever this one world, pagan, false religion, control of the earth. Who has made the judgment about her? God has. God's made the judgment about her. Now if he makes the judgment, if God makes the judgment, is that ever for grace? No, it's always for wrath. Remember the word propitient. Jesus is our propitient. So he bore the sin of the world to the cross. So God's judgment against my sin is focused on Jesus 2000 years ago on the cross. All right? It says unrighteous judgment. That's right. He says he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornications. And always remember the word fornications here always deals with the worship of other gods. Even this morning in the book of Judges, when Joshua is talking to them, he goes through. Don't go back and start worshiping the gods across the Euphrates that Abraham's parents worshiped. Don't worship the gods that you learned about in Egypt, when you were in Egypt. Don't worship the gods who control Canaan and the Canaanites. Worship you only worship me, the one true God. Now I want to ask you something. Okay, this is an important question because oftentimes we in the west especially try to dismiss the spiritual. Are you following me? We try to remove the spiritual. Whereas we used to start. We used to seek after the spiritual by seeing how the spiritual worked in the physical. Now we just try to answer everything with the physical and just totally divorce ourselves from the spiritual. All right, I want you. I want to ask you a question. Were they worshiping real little g o d ss? Well, they weren't worshiping demons. They were worshiping fallen angels. Moroni, it's a fallen angel, okay? Achilles. He's either a Nephilim or a fallen angel. Zeus is a fallen angel and maybe some Satan himself. Raw, okay? All these. All these beings and things that they worshiped, they're the ones who control the earth in Satan's army that has control of the earth, okay? It's not like they're worshiping a mythical figure. They're worshiping something that actually is. You do need to understand that, okay? They worship that, which is. They are fallen angels. When. When it. When the Bible says that Daniel was wrestling against this prince, okay, that ruled Persia, was he wrestling against a mythical figure? No. Why was he a prince? Because he had authority and dominion over that area. Was he a actual prince? No. Who had authority, Dominion in the physical world over the area that Daniel was praying about? Who was in charge? Nebuchadnezzar. Okay? We know who the king was. Was he wrestling? Did the. Was Nebuchadnezzar the one he wrestled against? Did him and Nebuchadnezzar get together, you know, get down into their underwear and have a big old wrestling match, huh, with rings and, you know, drop a forearm on each other? You know, did that's. What is that? What is that? What was going on? Was it. Was it real that it was happening? All right, if it was real that it was happening and he was wrestling against this prince that controlled this area, all right, then what was that? Was he wrestling Michael? Was he wrestling. Wrestling Gabriel? No, he was wrestling an angel in the fallen army of God. Of. Of Satan, okay? They exist. They ex. Yeah, yeah, but it. No, but it means he was literally wrestling. In fact, it wasn't in a dream. It says I wrestled against him for 21 days. It's a spiritual match. A spiritual battle that was going on, huh? What's in charge here is spiritual forces that control the earth. Now, do they control you? No. Do they have any authority over you? Do they have any authority over anything you have authority over? Do they want you to submit the things you have authority over to them? Yeah. Can I do that? Yeah, I sure can. I sure can. All right, now look, here's the problem with taking the spiritual out of the Bible. You got some problems, okay? When the Bible talks about Jesus walking on water, do you believe that he walked on water when it says that he drove out A demon. Do you believe that too? Okay, now if he drove out a demon and you believe that's true, that's definitely a spiritual act. Walking on water is a physical act. I'd sure love to. Love to know how he did it. Okay. All right. I'd like to be able to do it myself. When the Bible says that he walked through the door into the room in the upper room where the disciples were hiding, does it mean that he literally walked through the door? Sure it does. Sure he did. He peered before them. We walked through the wall or the door. Okay. Is that a physical or spiritual act? That's a physical act. I'd like to know how he does it. Okay. By the way, one level of physics teaches that that's absolutely possible. Okay. All right. That that can happen. Now, we figured out how to do it, but on Star Trek, they can take you and make you into this light thing and then move you somewhere they can transport you. But by the way, you're sitting there going, I don't believe in transporting. Well, did somebody get transported in the Bible? Hey, sure enough. Dilip Philip talked to the Ethiopian eunuch. And then after he got through talking to him, the Bible says that he was transported. He was here and then he was there. Yeah. And now I'm here. All right, so that. Now I'm asking you these questions for reason. When the Bible says that Jesus. Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, was he. Was that a spiritual temptation? Yeah, because Satan was a spiritual being. Okay. What, did it manifest itself in the physical? Yes, absolutely it did. All right. To divorce yourself from the spiritual and its relationship to the physical is to practice one of the two primary heresies in the. The two heresies that are dealt with in the New Testament. One of them is judaizing, meaning to. To try to make the New Testament under the law of the Old Testament. Okay. And then the second one's Gnosticism, which is to divorce the spiritual from the physical, meaning you can have a spiritual life and a physical life and you can do whatever you want to in the physical as long as you're spiritual. Okay, now I want you to hear me. If you divorce yourself from the physical life, I mean, from the spiritual life, and just act like everything's physical for you. Aren't you practicing a form of Gnosticism? You have. And he's got total. Is totally total. You know, that's like. That's like. Let me pick one. Well, he can't play right now because he tow his knee up last week. Patrick Mahomes but let's do Jalen hurts. What if Jalen hurts? Says, I don't really believe in defenses, so I'm not going to wear any pads today. And in fact, I don't even need an offensive line because I don't really believe in them. Okay? How's that going to work out for Jalen? It's not going to work out for him, all right? If you say that there's nothing spiritual, that all that spiritual stuff's mambo jambo, okay? If you say that, then I want you to hear me. You have no protection against the spiritual. And by the way, that which you don't believe in, you don't get the benefit of. Do you hear that? I've had many people say, well, you know, Pastor, I know that's in the Bible, but I don't believe that. And I go, well, listen, don't worry about it. Ain't gonna be no big deal for you, because I can promise you this. You ain't never gonna get it, okay? You don't believe in it, you ain't gonna have any of it. Just the way it goes, you know, Pastor, I believe healing God doesn't heal anymore. I said, well, that's great. Don't be praying for it now, all right? Because when you get cancer in a month from now and you start praying to God, don't pray for healing, okay? Because you don't believe in it, and you'll have. None of it makes sense, all right? You can't dishonor God in the work that he does and then expect a benefit from it. He says he has avenged on her the blood of his servants. He has avenged the blood of his servants and servants shed by her. Okay? What is God doing? He's taking out his wrath and his vengeance on her. Now, I want you to notice, you know, things work on different levels, and you kind of need to understand that, all right? If I'm dealing with a demon, that's not the same thing as a fallen angel. A demon is an unclean spirit, okay? It's kind of like this. Look, if you come to me with a case, and I'm the judge, okay, and you don't like my verdict, what do you do? You appeal it to the circuit court. If you don't like the circuit judge's opinion, what do you do? You appeal it to the appellate court. If you don't like the appellate court, who do you appeal it to? The supreme court. If you think that you've been messed up in some federal issue Then you might even be able to move that to the federal courts. Do you start out with the federal Supreme Court? Now you start at a federal district court, then you go to the federal appeals courts, then you go to the Supreme Court. Makes sense, right? You need to understand levels. Where is this celebration going on? It's going on at the top. So whatever this was is way bigger than you are. And it's been going on for a long, long time. It's something that matters. It's huge. Okay, so it's not a bunch of rich folks that meet in Davos, Switzerland. Okay? It ain't just them. Okay. Not them. Maybe they're part of it. Small part of it. You following me? I'm just giving you those things. You need to understand. This is a huge thing. This goes all the way to the top. And the top of the. Of the enemy is who? Satan. Where's the celebration going on here in heaven? By. By not. Just. By not just the Christians. 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. He'll. And that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.