The Revelation 19:3-4| Episode # 1163

April 1, 2026

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

The Revelation 19:3-4

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.

But by multitude, in heaven, notice what it says. Again they said hallelujah. Again they said hallelujah. Her smoke rises up forever and ever. Now you go, what are you talking about? It rises up forever and ever. All right, here's. Here's something that you got to get. Well, you ain't got to get it, because if you don't get it, when you get there, you'll know it. Okay? But it'll help you with a whole lot of questions. Remember, the first thing you got to know about God is what? First thing you got to know about him. He's sovereign. He's in control. He's good, he's omnipotent, he's omnipresent. But most of all, he's what? He's in charge. So his plans are right and good. Makes sense, doesn't it? All right, now I want you to hear me. When you get to heaven, listen, the Bible says that you will know even as you're fully known. All right, now I want to ask you something. Who knows you the best, huh? Well, that's what we all think is me. But the Bible says that the Spirit, he knows way more about you than you know. Okay? So if I'm fully known, who is it that fully knows me? God. Now, how much of me does God know? All are you talking about? Every bit. You mean I ain't hid any of it? Hold on. I ain't hid none of it. I can't hide. I can't. Just keep it a little special. My. My precious to me right now. Hide it from God. He don't know, huh? That's Lord of the Rings. Okay? Lord of the Rings, all right? We've done Star Trek and Lord of the Rings. All right, now, now listen, you can't hide it from God. So now let's. Let's follow this. Let's follow the Word because it's just good to exegete Scripture every once in a while. If I know, as I'm fully known, who fully known Me? God. So if I know, as he knows, then how much do I know? Everything. People go, well, what about my family and friends who are not in heaven? Let me ask you something. Is God. Is God in heaven? Is he satisfied with his judgment? If I know as he knows, will I be satisfied? Yeah. Yeah. Now, am I. Am I going to know all that I did wrong? Yeah. Now who am I going to attribute that to? No, I'm not going to attribute it to me. It's on Jesus. So I'm going to know everything that Jesus paid for, all of it. I'm on all of it. Why? Because who does that glorify? That glorifies God, glorifies Jesus. So everything that. Everything that I was not. I know, but I know on Jesus. So do I walk in any shame, any condemnation over it? No, because all of it's on Jesus. Now, I'm trying to get you somewhere thinking about this, okay? So there's not going to be shame, not going to be guilt. There might be some tears. Yeah, that's a song, too. All right. But, but, but, but, yeah, he'll. The Bible says he'll wipe away every tear. All right. Yeah, he'll keep them. He'll keep them from now. Does God mourn? Does God mourn? Yes, he does. Yeah. He wants us all. He wants perfect communion with all. Bible clearly talks about God mourning. Now is God. Here's the one that was asked to me by somebody yesterday. Is he disappointed in you? How many of y' all think he's disappointed in you? Raise your hand. How many don't think he's disappointed in you? Raise your hand. How many too chicken to vote? Raise your hand. All right, all right. I want you to listen to me. The only way for God to be disappointed in you is for him to have an expectation of you. That's not true. Yeah. If I'm disappointed in you, then I thought you were this way and you weren't that way and you were this way and I got disappointed. That's not true. Yeah. So God's. God's not. God doesn't have an expectation of you. That's. That would disappoint him. In fact, I want you to listen to me. You want him to have a high expectation of you. I'm just going to tell you he's got a real low. You are utterly sinful. He is low. Okay. He's bringing you up from the Bottom. Okay. And how far to the bottom? All the way to the bottom. He's bringing you up all the way from the very bottom. So he's not disappointed in you. All right? Listen to me. If you were taught that in one of your. In your spiritual journey growing up, that's not true. It was used to spiritually manipulate you. God is not disappointed in you. God is saving you, which means he's changing you, but he ain't disappointed in you. All right. Some good stuff right there. All right. Again, they said hallelujah. Her smoke rises up forever and ever. What? Why would her smoke rise up forever and ever? Because we're gonna. What, Remember? We're gonna know everything. Yeah. Everything. That'll paralyze you a little bit when you first get it, and then they'll. Then they'll set you free. But at first, you. When you realize. You mean, when I get to heaven, I am going to know all that there is? Yeah. In fact, your brain was made for that. Your human brain is capable of knowing everything. Yeah. Did you know that? It's capable of knowing everything. Your brain operates on about a 3% capacity. Every time you add another 3%. You following me? Yeah. You don't. It's not. It's not a doubling of the capacity. It's a. It's a exponential increasing of the capacity. So if you know somebody that thinks it. That uses the brain at 3%, and then you know somebody like maybe Einstein who operated maybe at five and a half or six percent of capacity. You following me? Then this person is operating at an exponential level higher than this person, meaning he's operating at. At whatever that percentage is. Times 10 to the one power. All right? Every time you add a three, a number three. Every time you double it, you add another times 10 to the second power, 12%. Times 10 to the third power, 15%. Times 10 to the fourth power. All right? So when you get to the end, if your brain operates at 3% and it moves to 100%, it. It is operating at 3 times 10 to the 33rd power, or 3 with 33 zeros past it times greater power. Now think about that. Now, if your brain operates at that kind of power, can you know everything? Yeah. Yeah. And it's going to be way better than AI because all AI can do is go out there and look on the Internet and tell you what AI tell you what the Internet said so that you ain't got to look it up yourself. Y' all do realize that's what AI does, right? It just searches The Internet and answers your question from what the Internet says. And I don't know if y' all know it or not, but the Internet don't know everything, okay? So half the time, whatever it gives you ain't right. Okay? Yeah, the Googles don't know everything either. Okay? Just letting you know. All right? I'm telling you that because we're going to remember everything. We're going to see and understand everything perfectly. He said, and the 24 elders, that's the whole priesthood. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go back to the Revelation. Kathleen's already put it out on the podcast. Go back to Revelation, chapter 4. And I explain the 4 and 20 elders. That's the complete priesthood. Who is the complete priesthood? All of us. The church. So when it says 4 and 20 elders, that is a reference to the whole or complete church, okay? And I explained it in that Bible study, okay? So the 4 and 20. And by the way, the first scene in heaven, what do we see? We see God on his throne. The initial scene in heaven, chapter four, God's on his throne. Four and 20 elders. And then the four beast, okay? Or the four. Or the four angels. The four cherubs. So it says the 20. Well, the lamb comes right after that. And the four and 20 elders. And the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who sat on the throne, saying amen and hallelujah, by the way. Amen's got a what? Exclamation. What? What does amen mean? So let it be, okay? Or I agree. All right? So they're saying, so let it be. Praise the Lord. Notice they fall down and worship. When we're in heaven, we're going to be doing a lot of worshiping, okay? So if you don't like doing it right now, you gonna be behind when you get there with me. Cause I ain't good at it, but I can do it. Let me tell you something. Get after. You better get after it. I remember first time God taught me how to worship, I was in. I've told y' all this before, haven't I? I'm talking about the real first time I was taught to worship, I was up in the. Up in the rafters, up in the balcony at the old Georgia Dome. I think his name's Keith Green. Keith Green was leading worship. It was the first Promise Keepers at the Georgia Dome. And the Georgia Dome was packed with men. They were all over the floor. I mean, it was all over the place. And I was on the front row of the top step. And I was there with, with, with about 50 men that I'd gotten to go with me on a bus to the Georgia Dome. And they were all around me, deacons and Sunday school teachers, you know what I'm talking about. I was there with my brethren. Y' all know what I'm talking about. I was there with them. And man, he was singing and thunder and lightning was going off up above and it's like his rumbling. The whole building was shaking. And we were singing How Great Thou Art. And there was some Pentecostals there and some non denominationals, you know what I'm talking about? And they had the hands up. And all of them on the stage had the hands up, you know what I'm talking about? And it was, it's about half the, half the congregation had their hands up. And I was, I was saying, well, you know, I'm not a. I'm not into that. That's not what we do. We reverent, you know, And God said, throw your hands up. I said, lord, the deacons is behind me. I just got on staff. I don't want to lose my job. 23 years old, can't afford to lose my job. Kathleen be upset if I come home. What happened? Got fired. Why? You lifted my hands up during the worship service and they fired me on the way home. Said I can't do. He said, raise your hand. I'm talking about. He's singing How Great Thou Art. And it was just shaking. I'm telling. The whole Georgia Dome was shaking. Is on fire. If you could. If. I bet you if you could see it in the spiritual, it would have been like an inferno. In that place I'm talking about, it's so far, it's most powerful place I've ever been. Most powerful place I ever been. Finally I said, okay, I'm going to do one. Lord, I'm not going to look back. Not even listening. He said, I didn't say throw one hand up. Said throw both hands up. You know, like my father in law, it hurt real bad. I threw my hands up. Boy, it was good. Later on that night, one of the, one of the guys that was one of my close friends, close friends, played basketball with him. He's an old fella, he's 70 years old. Come play basketball with us. He said, chad, when you lifted your hands up, you know what happened? I said, I'm getting fired. I know I'm getting fired right now. They sent him to tell me because me and him are close, you know, What? I'm. He said, man, all the. All the men of the church raised their hands. Everybody in the hole. All of us did. I said, you're kidding me. Who? Hallelujah. Amen. Amen and hallelujah. Really? Really. It's a good. It's a good. Anyway, I can't even tell you if you missed it. You. You just missed it, all right? It's kind of like Pentecost. If you weren't there. You just missed it. All right? He said. He says the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who sat on throne saying amen and hallelujah. Then a voice came from the throne saying, praise our God. God's calling for his own praise. Praise our God, all you his Who. His servants and those who fear him, both small and great. So who's praising God for this breakdown, for this destruction of this harlot? Everybody. Everybody. That's God's. All the angels, all the animals, all the heavenly host, all the church, everybody. She must be somebody important. You know what I'm talking about? She can't be Davos, folks. Okay? Just letting you know. She can't be the bank of England. Y' all following me. I know y' all watch Internets. I know y' all seen the YouTubes. Okay, all right. Bigger net. All right? There might be a. They might. There. There might be a Sasquatch, but it ain't the Sasquatch. Okay? Just letting you know it's bigger than that. He says, and I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude as a sound of. So that's who. That's God. As the sound of a mighty thunder. So you got. You've got the voice of a great multitude, the sound of many water thunder, which is judgment, which is his power, saying, hallelujah for the Lord God Omnipotent reigns. What it's saying is he knows and he. He is powerful. Over what? Everything. Now, who's telling us that? God's telling us that? By the way, he is speaking in the third person. A lot of athletes like to speak in the third person, okay? There's only one being that's got a right to speak in the third person, meaning to speak about yourself as if you're talking about somebody else. And who is that? God. God has the right to speak in the third person because he. He's the only one that can fully describe himself to you, okay? He says, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigns, meaning he is totally in control. First understanding of God, he is totally under control. He is God. He is God in all the manifestations that you can come up with that would take him to be God. He meets all those things. It says, let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory. For the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. So what's this talking about? It's called talking about the wedding feast of the lamb, okay? Now this is the marriage between Christ and the church, okay? It is the great party in heaven. We all can't wait to be there because we're going to be the bride. So God has made his bride ready and she. And it's. They're ready for the wedding feast, okay? And it says, and to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Meaning that acts that we do in faith, okay? Righteousness comes by faith. Then he said to me, right? Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. We. We want to be there. Notice he said, write it down because it's forever. He says, these are the true sayings of God. Says, and I fell to my. To his. At his feet, talking about the angel that's talking to him. But he said to me, see that you do not do that. I'm your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus, worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy or the spirit of understanding. Okay? Notice that. Let's go all the way back. Who judges the angels? We do. We judge the angels. So we do not worship angels. We don't worship these other little G O D Ss. We worship the one true God who is omnipotent. He says, see that you do not do that. I am your fellow servant and your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Meaning I'm a servant of you. Notice the angel is saying, I'm a servant of you. And I'm a servant of those who are a part of the church who have the testimony of Jesus. And the only people that have are part of the church are those who have the testimony of Jesus, okay? As God has revealed him to them. Now you need to hear that. As God has revealed himself to them. Okay? Let me ask you because it's important. You kind of get these understandings because they answer questions for you. Was the Ethiopian eunuch righteous before he knew who was the author of his righteousness? Yeah, sure he did. He was seeking out the one whom the passage was talking about. He could not have sought him had not the one who was in the passage sought him first. Did the Ethiopian eunuch know the name of his Lord. Before he had the conversation with Philip? He did not know his name, but he was his Lord. And that is a truth throughout Scripture. Many people in Scripture do not know who Jesus is, do not know who Adonai is. They do not know who El Shaddai is. Okay? They do not know who he is until he is revealed to them by someone else. But that does not mean that they have not begun to seek Him. And if they begun to see him, then he's their Lord. Even before they know his name, they would not seek him, was he not already their Lord. And you go, well, why is that? Well, who has to do the work of redemption and complete the work of redemption before you can receive redemption? God has to do it. God has to do the redeeming work. And it has to be a complete and perfect and flawless work. And that work has to be completed in you without you doing anything in order for it to have its fullness. He knew you before he knit you in your mother's womb.

Yes.

And if you do not get that, you're going to wonder what I needed to do to be okay with God. And you don't need to do anything. You need to repent and turn to Him. If you hear his voice today, do not be like the ones in the wilderness who harden their hearts. Turn to Him. But you, you say, well, what? I turn to him with what he's already placed in you. He's already given you the ability to trust Him. If he's already given you the ability to hear him, you need to act upon it. I don't have to pray over you. And you don't have to pray a special. Some kind of special prayer. And by the way, that prayer is not in the Bible. Y' all do know that, right? Have y' all ever looked for it? Yes. It's not in there. It ain't in there. I know. I know why. Because I don't have to do anything to be redeemed. I am redeemed. And then I realize that I'm redeemed. Period. Period. I am redeemed. And then I realize I'm redeemed. And I turn to him. And that puts God rightly in his proper place. He is omnipotent. He is sovereign. He is fully in control. When I put him in the right, his rightful place, then I can take my rightful place as a bride of Christ, Redeemed. By the blood of the Lamb, I am blessed because I have been invited. I've been invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb. When we do, when we realize the greatness of what God's done, We don't minimize what he does. And we maximize how we live. We maximize how we live. Well, there you are. Got it. Amen. Hallelujah. Ten verses. I was hoping for seven. I made it to ten. Ms. Susan didn't believe. She didn't believe, so I. I didn't believe either. Susan. About halfway through, I wasn't sure I was okay. It's good things. Good things. I could spend a whole day talking about the wedding feast of the Lamb, but I'm not okay. It's a party that you want to be at. Okay. And they are going to serve wine. Just letting you know. Yeah. Going to be made by Jesus. Okay. Huh? You will. Then it'll be like manna. It'll be whatever. That's right. All right, let's pray. Father, we thank you for your word. Thank you for the power that it gives us, Father, because it is the full manifestation of your son in our hearts. So, Father, we want to receive it, we want to walk in it, we want to live it out. Father, we ask for it in Jesus name. Amen. 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 na