Jesus, The One and Only
First Words:
A. The ________________________ of John – Revelation 1:9-11
1. His ________________ – John 1:9a -I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus….
2. His ______________ – John 1:9b-10a – Was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.
Geographically
Spiritually
Chronologically
3. His _________ – Revelation :10b -11 -And I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
a. The Source
b. The Specifics
B. The ______________ of John – Revelation 1:12-18
1. Its ____________ – Revelation 1:12a – Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me ….
2. Its ______________ – Revelation1:12b-16
a. The _______________ of Jesus Christ for the Church – Revelation 1:12b -13a -… and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man….
b. The _______________ of Jesus Christ for the Church – Revelation 1:13b -15 – clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 14The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
c. The _______________ of Jesus Christ for the Church – Revelation 1:16 – In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
3. Its ___________________ – Revelation 1:17a – When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.
C. The ____________ to John – Revelation 1:17b-20
1. The ________________ – Revelation 1:17b-18 – But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, 18and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
The Comfort
The Cause
The Claim
2. The ______________ – Revelation 1:19 – Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.
3. The ______________ – Revelation 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
So…What’s it to me?
Who is Jesus to us?________________________________
Who are we to Jesus? _______________________________