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As we open to Revelation 5: we have come to the greatest portion, of the greatest book, about the greatest place there could ever be anywhere: the Place of God’s Personal Presence called Heaven.
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Today, Heaven’s worship, distilled before us in our Bibles, into words we each can understand: is the most challenging message we could ever hear to prepare us for serving God!
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Worship is the offering given to God from my heart, quickened by His Spirit, unto a true awareness of my unworthiness, and His Almighty Immensity. That is how we sync with the constant atmosphere of Heaven.
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God is the Center of Attention in Heaven
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Heaven is filled with immense activity, constant travel, endlessly changing scenes, and enough sights and sounds to captivate even the most active observer. There is no boredom possible in Heaven, but neither is there any doubt about Who is the center of all attention.
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Worship in Heaven is only offered to God Almighty, who is Majestic, Awesome, and completely in charge of everything.
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When we cross the threshold into the spiritual world, His Throne towers as central to everything that goes on. But from that scene around the Seat of the Most High God, a message has been sent to us.
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Today we begin a look at the recorded content of the worship of Heaven. If the Book of Revelation was a worship service, it would have 14 doxologies written into the program.
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Lyrics of Worship God Wrote
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When God writes the lyrics, what do the choirs of Heaven sing? That is the wonder we see as we open to Revelation 5:8-10. Our passage today captures the third of 14 different doxologies in Revelation. Please stand with me, and with all the fantastic imagery of the scenes we have seen of God’s Throne on your mind, follow along as we read these words: